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BBC Wales has discovered that some people are being asked to wait up | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
to four years for specialist mental health treatment | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
The boss of National Museum Wales says an ongoing dispute over | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
weekend payments to staff is putting its finances at risk. | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
BBC Wales has discovered that some people are being asked to wait up | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
to four years for specialist mental health treatment | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
While most receive care much sooner and spending by the Welsh Government | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
has increased in recent years, doctors have described | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
All parties are promising to further increase funding for mental health | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
A calming walk by the river near Blackwood. | :00:51. | :01:02. | |
It is difficult to see now from the outside but Julie has | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
tried to cope with depression for decades. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
It wasn't the fact that I wanted to die, | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
I just didn't want to be inside | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
Because I just couldn't cope with what was going on | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Julie's most dangerous experience was triggered by a | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
It took months for her to see a specialist. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
In total she spent years on waiting lists. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
The waiting time to see somebody really didn't help what I was going | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Many people across Wales are treated for mental health issues | :01:38. | :01:49. | |
within weeks but unlike other illnesses, waiting times for these | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
At the moment in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, for some | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
patients, some therapies have a | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
four-year wait because of long-term staff illness. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
In the Betsi Cadwaladr and Hywel Dda areas, some are | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
being asked to wait up to two years while in Cwm Taf and Cardiff | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
and Vale, most received treatment within weeks and some patients are | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Health Board area didn't provided us with any | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Doctors have said time and time again that antidepressants or | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
other medication are sometimes the only options | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
There have been new resources this year and we need to see that | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
continue to be pushed across Wales to get better services. | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
It is not right for the patients of Wales and we need to see | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
more investment and a true commitment to solving this once and | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
A food cooperative run by volunteers. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
For many, a new step towards going back to full-time | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
The mental health charity that organises | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
this service says NHS services are improving | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
has be done to monitor very long waits for a very specialist help. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
It is really frustrating when money is | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
going into the service and we can't see the impact it's having. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
We need to make sure that data collection is | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
transparent, it is accessible and it is consistent so we can | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
make sure any investment that is going in is | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
So what are the politicians promising | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
The Welsh Liberal Democrats told me they would give | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
the same access to diagnosis and treatment of mental health patients | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
as patients with physical health problems. | :03:32. | :03:32. | |
Both the UK Independence Party and the Welsh Conservatives | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
are promising to spend more money on mental health services each year, | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
and introduce a 28 day referral to treatment time target. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Plaid Cymru said the service is underfunded as | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
it is at the moment and are pledging to spend | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
?68 million more by the | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
The Welsh Labour Party who have been in charge of the service up until | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
recently say they have already made significant progress in mental | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
health services in Wales over the past few years and pledged | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
to spend more money on it again in future and | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
they have already introduced an 80% target time for people to get some | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
kind of intervention with mental health problem. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Julie eventually got really good support from an NHS | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
psychiatrist but she and others feel there is a steep hill to climb | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
before mental health is on an even footing with other health services. | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
The Football Association of Wales has launched an investigation | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
after suspicious betting patterns were discovered on a Welsh | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
It follows a game on Saturday when Rhyl - who had not | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
won in 17 matches - beat Port Talbot 5-0 at home. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Port Talbot are making no comment but have confirmed | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
All players in the Welsh Premier League must sign | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
an agreement before each season, which includes a pledge not to bet | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
on games and competitions in which they appear. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Police investigating the murder of a 51-year-old woman whose body | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
was found at a house in Powys have named her as Tracy Cockrell. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Dyfed Powys Police went to an isolated property | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
near Machynlleth on Sunday after reports of her sudden death. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Officers also found man's body during a search of the grounds | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
and he has been identified as Nigel McGrath, aged 45. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
His death is not being treated as suspicious and no-one else | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
is being sought in connection with the incident. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
The boss of National Museum Wales says an ongoing dispute over | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
weekend payments to staff is putting its finances at risk. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
David Anderson said discussions have taken place with staff affected | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
by proposals to scrap extra pay on weekends and bank holidays | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
after negotiations with the PCS Union broke down. | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas has the story. | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
There's a new face on the walls at National Museum Wales - | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
a portrait by Rembrandt that's worth ?35 million and here on loan, | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
But it's the millions that the museum has | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
to save that's worrying the boss while the staff are on strike. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Some of the museum's lowest paid staff are opposed to plans | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to stop paying them extra for working weekends. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
For two years the dispute has affected the museum's seven | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
sites across Wales - but now there's a warning | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
about the financial strain it's causing. | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
We have got staff asking if they can sign up to the offer we are making | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
and in the broader context of the museum finances, every month that | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
goes by without resolution costs as a further ?70,000 from our reserves | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
so we cannot afford to keep the dispute running and we have to bring | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
it to a conclusion because otherwise it puts the museum 's finances at | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
it puts the museum 's finances at strategic risk. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
To try and resolve the dispute the Museum has offered staff | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
an average of ?4,000 as a lump sum, equivalent to two years | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Around 300 members of staff currently get extra money | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
for working weekends, and the museum has now begun | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
individual consultations with each of them. | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
If staff don't accept the offer, the museum says it could dismiss | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
them and offer to re-employ them under the new terms. | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
longest-running industrial disputes. Both sides say they have made | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
concessions but it is clear something will have to change in | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
something will have to change in order for the strikes to stop. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Negotiations with the unions broke down at Christmas and only | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
an improved offer will bring the workers back to the table. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
What we would like to see is for the museum to enter back into | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
discussions with us, to be more open and transparent with us. In order to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
resolve this dispute, we need to see an improvement to the offer. | :07:49. | :07:49. | |
The museum says the financial picture is clear but the union hopes | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
there'll be further talks before the dispute can be brought | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
A leading economist has warned that uncertainty over the future of Tata | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
means parts of the car industry will be looking at options | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
abroad for their supply of high quality steel. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Professor David Bailey says he hoped companies would continue | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
to support UK steel, but warned that if Tata begins | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
to lose sales it will make it less attractive to potential buyers. | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
If users in terms of the car industry to walk away from using | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
British steel, that will have an impact on demand from whatever | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
We hope those assemblers and component | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
suppliers will continue to use British steel in the short-term. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
The leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Kirsty Williams, | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
says she won't repeat the same "terrible" mistakes on tuition fees | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
that her Party made in coalition with the | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
She's pledging to replace the current tuition fee subsidies | :08:40. | :08:51. | |
offered by the Welsh government with a new upfront grant | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Here's our political editor Nick Servini. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
The former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg made | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
a number of sacrifices for his | :08:59. | :08:59. | |
Party when he teamed up with David Cameron to form | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
The most damaging was the breaking of the pledge to oppose | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
At a different time and a different place, the ghost of that broken | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
Williams in tonight's Ask the Leader debate in Aberystwyth | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
as she set out her opposition to the current subsidies. | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
What we can do now is be very clear and upfront | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
I could stand here and say it's fine and we | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
can carry on paying these student fee grants for years when the | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
reality is, I can't make that promise. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
I don't want to make the | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
I do things differently in my party in | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
Wales and I don't want to make those same mistakes. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
The Liberal Democrats' offer instead is an upfront grant of | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Under the current system, students from Wales pay around | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
?3,800 towards the fees, wherever they study in the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
The Welsh government can top up more than 5,000. | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
Many in higher education believe the system is | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
unaffordable as tens of millions of pounds ends up in the coffers | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
A review into the system is being carried out. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Labour has pledged to keep it but the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
and Ukip say they will replace it with cheaper alternatives. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
The Welsh Conservative leader has joined other party leaders in Wales | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
A document posted on Facebook showed Andrew RT Davies' tax bill last year | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
came to around ?23,000 on an income of just over ?121,700. | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
Leaders of the Welsh Lib Dems, Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
followed the prime minister earlier this week in releasing | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
But Ukip Wales leader Nathan Gill said he wouldn't | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Emergency services joined forces today, to ensure they're prepared | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
The fire service, police, lifeboat, ambulance crews and mountain rescue | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Exercise Polygon took place at various locations | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
They had to rescue people trapped in a submerged car in fast flowing | :11:06. | :11:28. | |
water at the International Whitewater Centre in Cardiff Bay. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
In Cardiff the temperature soared as high as 17 Celsius. It won't be the | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
swarm over the weekend. Some places dry tonight but a few showers dotted | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
around with a pocket of missed here and there. More cloud around tonight | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
compared to last night with temperatures around five Celsius. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Tomorrow morning we start off with plenty of cloud with some places dry | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
with a few showers dotted around. It should brighten up in the South | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
through the morning with some sunshine. Fairly cloudy for Northern | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Ireland, southern Scotland, northern England and a few spots of rain. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Largely dry and bright in Scotland but further south we have a mixture. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Showers are heavy and thundery in places. Later in the afternoon | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
towards the evening, rain reaching Cornwell and the Channel Islands. A | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
warm 17 degrees in London and only nine Celsius in Glasgow. Closer to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
home, a few scattered showers. If you catch a Shah, it will be heavy. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Like today, hit and missed with some places enjoying sunshine and a high | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
of 15 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, the showers will slowly fade away and a | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
few mist and fog patches forming, for example in Powys. Showery rain | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
reaching the South after midnight. On Friday January cloudy with | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
showers heavy in places. It should turn dry from the West later in the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
day, turning cooler as well with the wind beginning to turn into the | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
North, setting the scene for the end of the week. Cold air from the | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Arctic heading our way and a chilly weekend in store with a few showers | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
on Saturday, but some sunshine and overnight frost. | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
We will be back at around 6:25am tomorrow morning. Goodbye. | :13:28. | :13:30. |