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in a moment with analysis of that debate between Nick Clegg and | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Good evening. The proportion of ambulances turning up on time to the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
most urgent calls has reached a new low. Figures show less than 53% of | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
emergency responses to life-threatening calls arrived at | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
the scene within eight minutes last month. Opposition parties say the | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
situation is a "national disgrace". But the Health Minister is now | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
planning a major overhaul of how performance is measured. Here's our | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
Health Correspondent, Owain Clarke. In an emergency, sometimes every | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
second counts, and driving a car means this paramedic can weave his | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
way more quickly through the traffic. It is a priority call from | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
the parents of a baby having a fit. The idea of a rapid response vehicle | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
is to get there quicker than an ambulance and provide immediate | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
treatment. The baby responded well after overheating, but just in case, | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
back-up arrives. If speed is important, it is clear that the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Welsh ambulance service is struggling to keep up. This graph | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
tells the story, it has consistently fallen short of the target. Today's | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
figures show that in February, the performance reached a new low. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Ambulances in England and Scotland perform much better. It emerged that | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
the police had set targets should be suspended on one weekend when the | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
weather was at its worst. The minister went further than blaming | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
the weather, arguing ambulance targets themselves are flawed. They | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
get to somebody in eight minutes and that person does not survive but | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
they have met the target. They get to somebody in nine minutes, that | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
person survives and the target has been field. It is not measuring what | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
is important for the outcome for patients. New performance indicators | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
are on the way, focusing on quality and not speed, in other words, the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
effect any treatment had on a patient. One example would be to | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
measure how long it takes to bring life-saving drugs to a patient who | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
has had a stroke or a heart attack. It has also been suggested targets | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
could change. Opposition parties claim any attempt to ditch the | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
current target would be a backward step. The Minister must commit to | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
monitoring and publishing the response time for ambulances, he | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
cannot simply change the target because of his government's failure | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
to meet it. What we are doing is looking at the outcome of patients | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
and the care we provide. The government rejected the accusation | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
that these are an attempt to bury bad news. It insists the targets | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
will continue alongside the new targets. Opposition parties have | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
criticised the Welsh Government, after MP Ann Clwyd was prevented | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
from giving evidence to the Assembly about the NHS. A proposal was put | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
forward to invite the Labour Cynon Valley member to give details to the | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Health Committee about correspondence she had received from | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
patients, but the idea was voted down by Labour AMs. A Welsh Labour | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
spokesman said it would be constitutionally inappropriate for | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
her to speak to the Committee. The company behind plans for a Severn | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Barrage, Hafren Power, has lost its second chief executive in six | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
months. Mike Davies was appointed in November. He now intends to create a | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
new business to pursue the 25 billion pound energy project. Obese | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
children in Wales are having to wait until they're adults to get some | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
treatment to help tackle their weight. That's the finding of a | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
committee of Assembly Members. Wales has the highest rate of childhood | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
obesity in the UK. The Welsh Government said it would respond in | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
due course. Half the schools in Wales were either wholly or | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
partially closed today by the latest in a series of strikes by the | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
National Union of Teachers. It's all part of a long running dispute with | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
the UK government over pay and pensions. Teachers marched to the | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
National Assembly to show their feelings. Here's our education | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
correspondent Arwyn Jones. It was the same picture in hundreds of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
schools. Empty playgrounds and locked gates. They and thousands | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
like them had a day off school. Over 200 teachers descended to show their | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
opposition to proposals to change their pay and conditions, the most | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
contentious being a move to performance related pay. We all try | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
to do our best, but in Wales we have some of the most deprived | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
communities in the UK. In the leafy suburbs you can get children to | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
achieve with far less effort than in the valleys unveils of Wales. -- | :05:18. | :05:31. | |
vales. I think it is invidious to set one teacher against another. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Even though education is devolved, pensions is still a matter for the | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Westminster Government. A government report earlier this month | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
recommended devolving paid to the Welsh assembly. -- and major report. | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
That has been argued against by the majority of union members. The | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
recommendation is being considered, but whoever pays them is neither | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
here nor there, according to the unions. We need to deal with what is | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
going on in Westminster, we need to secure the changes with the people | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
who are responsible at this time. The strike comes down to two | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
different views of how to teach our children. For the union, happy | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
teachers are better teachers, but for the government of the UK, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
performance is better. Investigations are continuing into a | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
possible connection between a salmonella outbreak, and laver bread | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
produced by a firm in Gower. 12 adults have contracted the bug, and | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
the company has removed its laver bread from sale as a precaution. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Jenny Rees reports. Seaweed is not that appetising in this state, but | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
if you boil it and mince it, you have what Richard Burton famously | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
described as Welsh caviar. Little has changed in the way laver bread | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
is collected. Love it or loathe it, it is considered a delicacy. But | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
public health Wales is now investigating an outbreak of Salman | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
Eller. -- salmonella. All the samples we have taken has been | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
negative, even up to the most recent samples. We are all clear with the | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
results, but as a precautionary measure, we have voluntarily | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
withdrawn the product. 12 cases have been confirmed. Three people have | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
needed hospital treatment. Currently we are interviewing cases and people | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
with different levels of illness to compare this case to what people | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
usually eat. There will be further investigations at the manufacture | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
centres. Laver bread starts off as seaweed, harvested across the Welsh | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
coast. The company is hosting that if the test results come across as | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
negative, they will be able to restock shelves next week. It may be | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
spring but it is not warming up much yet. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
spring but it is not warming Temperatures are dropping and we are | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
in for a chilly few days with wind coming from Russia, bringing a few | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
scattered showers. It should start to feel a little bit warmer over the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
weekend. Some dry weather tonight but also a few showers and sleet in | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
places. I would not rule out frost in places. Tomorrow, a mixture of | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
sunny intervals and showers sums it up. Elsewhere, many places dry, | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
sunshine in Aberystwyth. Across the rest of the UK, a real mix. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Scattered showers, some of them heavy, with the risk of hail and | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
thunder. Some sunshine in Belfast tomorrow, easterly breeze. A mixture | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
of sunny intervals tomorrow afternoon, the showers heavy in | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
places, some snow for the Brecon Beacons and the mountains in | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Snowdonia. Most of the showers will die away tomorrow night, many places | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
becoming dry. We could see some rain affecting parts of the North East. A | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
mixed bag on Friday. Further showers. And easterly breeze. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
Temperature is a little higher. That set the scene for the weekend. The | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
wind turns into the south-east, temperatures will rise. It will feel | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
more like spring. Good news. That is the news today. Goodbye. | :09:57. | :09:58. |