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Out of hours hospital care is inadequate

according to the Public Services Ombudsman.

There is a lot more work that needs to be done in improving

the culture of the NHS in Wales but also of other public services.

Karen Price was 15 when she ran away from a children's home.

Her body was found wrapped in a carpet.

Two men who killed her fail in their appeal

Hundreds of well paid jobs are up for grabs in science,

Wales name an unchanged side to face England at Twickenham on Saturday.

The weather is about to take a turn for the worse with heavy rain,

If you go into hospital at night or on a weekend, will you get

the same standard of care as you would during

The Public Services Ombudsman says he's investigated several cases

of "inadequate" care given to patients out of hours including

cases where junior doctors haven't been properly supervised.

He's now calling for an independent review.

The Welsh Government says it'll carefully consider the issue.

Here's our health correspondent, Owain Clarke.

We don't choose when we get a ill which means unlike other workplaces

But is the care it provides as good as it

There are three million people in Wales and for the vast

majority, their treatment is excellent.

But I think we have to look at those common themes that do arise when it

There is a theme there in terms of out-of-hours care.

In a new report he highlights a dozen examples

He says he found it entirely unacceptable that one patient,

Mr T, an elderly man with motor neurone disease,

had to wait more than 40 hours over the weekend

before doctors gave him a feeding tube.

On another occasion, a patient, Mrs K, was discharged from hospital

twice by junior doctors even though the ombudsman found on both

occasions it had not been medically safe to do so.

He also says junior doctors can sometimes be afraid to ask for help

from senior colleagues and says standards of care can vary

even between wards in the same hospital.

Russell Hopkins has concerns but not only because of his experience

as a patient, he is a former surgeon and hospital manager.

In 2011 he was left with bladder and nerve damage after surgery.

He says it was four days before he was seen by a consultant.

On a particular weekend you may have three or four

separate junior doctors not knowing the patient.

If they haven't been with the patient and they haven't

seen the early treatment, looking in the notes,

which may be pretty awful anyway, may mean they don't

understand what is going wrong with the patient.

Opposition parties here at the Senedd argue the ombudsman's

They say it reflects the failing on the part of the Welsh Government.

But the Welsh Government argues improvements are underway

I've never been attracted to some of the calls for large

I will take advice on this proposition and if we think

there is something good to derive from it of course we would do it.

But concerns about 24/7 care aren't new.

This health expert warned five years ago that patients

in Wales admitted to hospital on a weekend were more

I think there hasn't been very much progress at all, really,

the last five years on this particular issue

because it is so complex and because it involves trade-offs.

It probably does involve centralising some services.

It does involve being honest with people sometimes and saying,

this particular hospital cannot any longer provide 24/7

emergency cover because we cannot safely staff it.

This issue is also a hot topic across the border.

The UK Government wants to impose a new

contract on junior doctors in England which they argue

will mean better care in the evenings and at weekends.

But many junior doctors there, who go on strike again tomorrow,

say it to mean longer hours and poorer care.

The Welsh Government wants to avoid a similar dispute.

It says better care around the clock can only be delivered by working

Owain, the timing of the report is interesting?

Very interesting for two reasons. The Welsh election is not that

far-away and the ombudsman will have known that by raising the concerns

today opposition parties would have wanted to seize upon them. There

were rumblings within the Welsh Government about the timing. It is

fair to say Nick Bennett the ombudsman, stresses is independence.

He isn't saying what many people working in the NHS and what many

people visiting relatives at the weekend would not know. There is

another junior doctors strike in England tomorrow as part of that

bitter dispute in England about seven-day working and new contracts.

Nick Bennett may have thought by publishing today his report would

have wider resonance. This of the NHS are geared up for 24 hour work

-- 24/7 working. If you want to increase weekend working you can do

one of three things. Move start of the weekend or at night and move

them from elsewhere in the David Stock that may have knock-on

consequences. You can concentrate services in few hospitals to provide

better cover. That is controversial. The popular choice is to spend more

many but we note budgets are tight. Campaigners who want overnight

children's care returned to Withybush Hospital

in Pembrokeshire have delivered an 18,000 signature

petition to the Senedd. The paediatrics unit is now

a daytime-only service. Children admitted overnight are sent

to hospital in Carmarthen. Withybush Hospital has acknowledged

the petition and says the majority of health care for children

is still provided in Pembrokeshire. A vote on whether or not

e-cigarettes will be banned in some Assembly Members are currently

debating the issue. The Welsh Government is concerned

e-cigarettes normalises smoking. The ban's proposals have been

watered down so they don't include all public places due to pressure

from some opposition parties. Two men who killed a 15-year-old

girl, whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in Cardiff 27 years ago,

have failed in their attempts Karen Price went missing

from a children's home Alan Charlton was jailed

for life for her murder, but Idris Ali from Cardiff

was released in 1994 after his conviction was quashed

and he admitted manslaughter. Karen Price was 15 when she went

missing from a children's home Eight years later builders laying

pipes in the back garden of a house in Riverside found her remains

wrapped in an offcut of carpet Her hands were tied

behind her back and a plastic bag had been

placed over her head. As part of the efforts

to identify her, a clay model was created using ground-breaking

techniques and it wasn't long before two social workers identified

her as Karen Price. In 1991, two pimps were

jailed for her murder. Alan Charlton and Idris Ali

were sentenced to life in prison. A subsequent appeal by Charlton

failed but Ali's conviction He admitted manslaughter

and was released Today at a brief hearing

at the Court of Appeal, another attempt to have their

convictions quashed was rejected. Lawyers for the men had argued

evidence from the key witness in the trial, a girl from the same

children's home as Karen, Idris Ali claims he only confessed

to manslaughter For the reasons given

in the judgment handed down today, the appeals

against conviction of Alan Charlton This street which now

faces the Principality Stadium has been completely

transformed since the 1980s when it was at the heart

of Cardiff's red light district. It has been 27 years

since Karen Price's body was found here and although one of the two men

who killed her remains in prison tonight, there are still many

unanswered questions about how this young girl's life came

to such a tragic end. Jennifer Jones, BBC Wales

today in Riverside. We need 600 people to fill

vacancies in science, Well paid jobs but why

are we failing to attract women On International Women's

Day, Caroline Evans. These women are at the top

of the tree and today they came we are wasting knowledge

and talent in Wales. By 2020 we will need

another one million Experts here say while women

outperform men in education, still they often work in jobs

which require skills According to this report

commissioned by the Welsh Government, too few girls study

so-called stem subjects Those that do pursue a career

in this area don't stay. Why and what we do about

it is something Professor Hilary Lappin-Scott

has been looking at. We have drawn up a total of 30

recommendations that are designed to support girls in school

to encourage them to stay in stem subjects, but if you go on to study

a degree in stem the subject, showing that is a superb career,

working on how to overcome unconscious biases and improve

the representation and participation of women at the most senior

level to 50-50 by 2020. A target the Economy

and Science Minister says We're making the change

because this is the first time we have had an integrated

science strategy. It is the first time, I think,

all ministers have signed Every minister has

called responsibility for science policy and

that is very important. That indicates as a government

we collectively want to achieve Employers have a big part to play

at Airbus was held up There was a point in my career

when I thought, actually I can't do But it took one of the senior

managers at Airbus to say, you are a great employee,

we can find you a part-time job. For Doctor Aditee Mitra

from Swansea University it is all about thinking

in a different way. I wanted a 70% flexible

contract with the understanding my 30% was going to be

off during school holidays But today's report says that for too

many others inflexible working patterns and unconscious bias

remained major barriers. Education, recruitment,

retention and promotion The Welsh Government

will make a formal response Professor Julie Williams

is one of the country's Why is it so difficult to get women

into these top jobs? It is a complicated issue but I think we

need to start early. We need to stop girls opting out of science very

early on. We need to get teachers more akin with what is going on in

science or they can convey that enthusiasm to children. We need to

look at physics. It may not be the most interesting subject, we need to

make it more relevant for women. These decisions start early, Dan

Baker smack you see girls dropping out of the subjects very early in

education. -- these decisions start early, don't they?

If a child comes home and says I want to be an engineer I'm not sure

she gets as positive response. We need to reset our ideas about what

these jobs can give women. They give them solid careers, good salaries.

We need to get more girls thinking about this. Is this about schools

doing more or industry doing more? Universities doing more? All three.

We need to integrate industry. We need role models to show girls can

succeed in industry. We lose a lot of women mid-career, women who

already choose to be stem jobs. We lose them. How can we bring them

back in ) how can we maintain the links with these women when they

have families and stress is interfering with their careers. We

need to think about bringing these women back in.

Much more to come before seven o'clock.

Drones made here have a great potential for filming flooding

or fish stocks but what about their role in combat?

And same again - Wales name an unchanged side to face England

He says he used to be indifferent about devolution that he didn't vote

in the referendum to establish the Assembly.

Now the Welsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, wants to convince

us to come out at the election on May fifth and back him to be

In our final interview with the party leaders in the run up

to the election campaign, our political correspondent

On his farm in the Vale of Glamorgan where it all began.

The midwife hadn't come and I was bright blue.

I was blue when I was born and I am blue now, and I will be blue

Now, Andrew RT Davies wants to turn the Welsh Government

blue and he says last year's general election showed

there are enough Conservative supporters

What we've got to do is energise people

to say, the Assembly is important, the Assembly election is vital

to our future well-being and we need change.

After 17 years here of Labour running services into the ground,

we need to secure real change here in Wales.

He says it is a privilege to be a member of the National Assembly.

The other Assembly party leaders campaigned for the institution to be

Quiet indifference, I suppose, would have been the word

Ultimately, I was securing my family's future, my

business's future by getting my head down and working here on the family

farm and really politics was most probably not that important for me

I didn't vote at the National Assembly referendum in 1997.

Ultimately, I believe passionately when you do get a calling to go

into public life as I believe when the

That was the moment for you when you thought,

I need to be a politician. I need to get involved.

I believed that our community needed to gain a voice.

Make him First Minister and this is what he would do.

The Conservatives have made the NHS their big battle ground.

They want a dedicated fund to improve access

Instead of subsidising university tuition fees,

they would pay half of students' rent.

After reviewing all possible routes, they say they would start

work on an M4 relief road near Newport within a year

Policies crafted to try to clinch target seats.

Seats the Tories have already taken from

We are not falling back from communities,

it is the Labour Party who are falling back

from communities and going back to their heartlands.

What do you look at when you see some of those heartlands?

Just had my neighbour up here ranting about Europe.

Do you know the Vale of Glamorgan is the most Eurosceptic

Mr Davies should be right at home then.

He has announced he will vote to leave the EU in June.

Did he agonise over whether to make that announcement?

Anyone who knows me knows I agonise over very little.

That is why I look so young, and my Hollywood good looks!

The leader of the Welsh Conservatives speaking to

Staying with Europe, Geraint Talfan Davies has been named

as Chairman of Wales Stronger in Europe, a group campaigning

for the UK to remain in the European Union.

His son, BBC Wales Director Rhodri Talfan Davies,

has said he'll step away from coverage of the referendum

campaign due to his father's involvement.

The proposals put forward by the developers of

QinetiQ has been showing BBC Wales Today how the unmanned craft

can be used to manage flooding and fish stocks.

But critics are concerned about their future use

Here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan.

It is the technology of the future and increasingly drones

are being looked at for their wider social, environmental

This drone mapped us as we watched it in flight.

It is being used to assess which land can be rescued

and which would be lost to flooding as well as preventing

Bosses at Llanbedr say this location is uniquely placed to capitalise

I think it is fair we're going to see both civil and military

But I think it is the technology not to be scared of.

It is just another advance in the same way we have had

jet engines and fly-by-wire over the years.

Wales could be at the forefront of the drone revolution

although it faces stiff international competition.

It would allow us to build on the 23,000

people already employed in the aerospace sector.

It would also offer new opportunities including

in software development and the ability

to analyse the huge amount of data that comes from these drones.

But what is really controversial in Llanbedr is the idea that it

will be used potentially for military applications.

The danger of having an industry that is based on the drone

technology and behind the mask of civilian and environmental use,

is that military drones will become part

There has always been concern about military applications

in aerospace but if you look at the way it has gone over the last

20 or 30 years, the balance is very much

Again, looking at the environmental challenges the planet faces,

we need all the help we can get from that aerospace technology.

Having more drones quietly flying overhead has also led to some

We have had helicopters doing the same

jobs that drones now do, flying above peoples heads,

for years and nobody has paid any attention.

Because drones are lower and they are new, they are

a novelty, people are concerned in a different way.

As with any new technology it will take

time to fully work out what place drones have.

In the meantime, Llanbedr and Wales look to be in good positions

Tonight's sport. Starting with rugby, here's Iwan.

We'll start by looking ahead to the Big Six Nations showdown

between England and Wales at Twickenham on Saturday.

Wales coach, Warren Gatland says the winner will probably also claim

And with that in mind he's selected an unchanged XV

Rhys Webb back on the field in Welsh colours for the first time in

The Ospreys scrum-half recovered from injury and ready to fire

But has tp accept a place on the bench.

He has had a few good games for the Ospreys under his belt

Once players get a few games under their

belt they are ready to go back into international rugby and he's

come back on the bench so it is not like

you're asking him to play a full 80 minutes.

I'm sure he will have an impact from the bench if he is used.

Gareth Davies retains the number nine shirt impressing with his sixth

Bradley Davies is also in the first 15 and will start at second row

Despite the return of six foot ten lock Luke Charteris

He is on the bench among with Paul James who steps

in for injured veteran Gethin Jenkins.

It is an experienced squad with a head coach saying Wales

are stronger now than they were before the World

Cup game against England in September.

We feel there is a lot of strength in depth in terms of experience

of the loose forwards that the two locks, the two young

props continue to get better and better.

Samson Lee has been coming back from injury in the World Cup

so we feel that Samson and Rob Evans have done really well and Scott

Baldwin has continued to get better and better as a hooker as well.

One of the biggest battles on Saturday will be between two family

members. To Lupe Faletau in up against Curzon, Billy Vunipola. The

opposition and the rate or daughter then by double has become England's

most destructive player. -- the opposition player brought up in Bonn

to Paul. As they say, Toby has been doing well foreigners and Billy has

been the talisman for them in the pack.

To this current crop of players, Twickenham has ceased to be an

intimidating venue. Wales have won there three times since 2008.

England may be unbeaten under Eddie Jones but these men in red are

confident in their ability to bring that run to an end in four days'

time. Wales Women also field an unchanged

side against England. Their game is on Saturday

at the Twickenham Stoop at 6.05pm. Meanwhile, the teams manager has

signed an open letter to broadcasters calling for more

media coverage of women's sport. The letter is also supprted by many

leading female figures including Jazz Carlin,

Frankie Jones, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

and Nicole Cooke. There is definitely positives

but we could get better coverage and I think within

the letter, we have called for dedicated media

representation to look If we keep on working in that

direction it can be positive Cardiff City host Leeds

in the Championship tonight. A result could see them climb back

into the play-off places. Newport welcome

Barnet in League Two. Another four Welsh names have been

added to the Paralympic team that Rob Davies, Paul Davies,

Sara Head and Paul Karabardak have all been included

in the Great Britain Paralympic Rob Davies who broke his back

playing rugby in 2005, claimed Class 1 individual bronze

four years ago and is the current While Sara is aiming to build

on the bronze she won My goal and my dream

would be to medal. But as long as I put my best

on the table when I'm out there, because it is such a difficult

competition then I can It is great because we have a team

within a team and for us, to go out there and represent Wales

as well as Great Britain Trouble's brewing on the weather

front Derek's got the forecast. The chart for tomorrow shows a nasty

low pressure on our door step and that's going to bring a spell

of wet and very windy weather. The Met Office has

issued two warnings. The another for strong to severe

gale force winds in There is a risk of flooding

in places, travel disruption This evening a dry start

but it won't last. Rain will spread across

the country overnight. The rain heaviest in the south

with snow on higher ground. The wind picking up later

in the night with gales in So here's the picture

for eight in the morning. Mainly above 300 metres or 1000 feet

but I wouldn't rule out sleet 70mph coastal areas in the south

and west and on higher ground. So, some poor travelling conditions

tomorrow. Remaining windy into the afternoon

but the rain will ease and clear. So, turning drier and brighter,

especially in the west Top temperatures five to eight

Celsius and feeling much colder In Pembrokeshire tomorrow windy

with gales but becoming Rain in the morning will clear

leaving a dry and sunnier afternoon. Most places dry bar one or two

showers in mid and north Wales. And a colder night with

a touch of frost inland. One or two light showers otherwise

a lot of dry weather. A little sunshine and feeling less

cold with lighter winds. The wind remains light

on Friday and Saturday. A little rain or drizzle

but becoming dry over the weekend. Milder too with high pressure

on the way. A spell of wet and very windy

weather later tonight and tomorrow. There needs to be a systematic

and independent review of out-of-hours hospital care

in Wales according to The Welsh Government says

it'll consider the issue. Is that the members have backed a

proposed ban on e-cigarettes in some public places.

I'll have an update for you here at eight o'clock and again

From all of us on the programme, good evening.