0:00:03 > 0:00:04Welcome to the programme.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06Tonight's headlines, too full and seriously understaffed -
0:00:06 > 0:00:08the findings of a report into hospital departments treating
0:00:08 > 0:00:12critically ill patients.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15And the RNLI warns of the dangers of the Welsh coast.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17One man who saw his best friends drown at sea, urges
0:00:17 > 0:00:27people to stay safe.
0:00:27 > 0:00:35Good evening.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Hospital departments in Wales, responsible for treating the most
0:00:37 > 0:00:39seriously ill patients, are too full and
0:00:39 > 0:00:39seriously understaffed.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42That's according to a Welsh Government report that says
0:00:42 > 0:00:43front-line staff are experiencing stress and uncertainty.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Tonight, it warns that Health Boards need to tackle
0:00:45 > 0:00:46the problems urgently.
0:00:46 > 0:00:57Here's our Health Correspondent, Owain Clarke.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00If you are gravely ill, have had a serious accident or big
0:01:00 > 0:01:02operation it is likely you will be cared for here.
0:01:02 > 0:01:09Critical care units treat 9.500 patients a year in Wales.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11But according to the Welsh Governmemt's own assessment they
0:01:11 > 0:01:13appear to be struggling to cope.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15In January last year, they were working beyond maximum
0:01:15 > 0:01:17capacity, treating more patients than they should have had room for,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19with 107% bed occupancy.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20According to guidelines, they shouldn't be more
0:01:20 > 0:01:28than 70% file.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30If intensive care is chock-a-block even emergency operations
0:01:30 > 0:01:31have to be postponed.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34The report highlights significant staff shortages with only half Welsh
0:01:34 > 0:01:35units have enough consultants.
0:01:35 > 0:01:45And just one in five is covered by junior staff.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48When we get overfill critical care beds and the units are struggling
0:01:48 > 0:01:51to deal with not only emergencies, but elective work, we find very
0:01:51 > 0:01:53major elective surgery gets deferred by days or weeks.
0:01:53 > 0:02:02This, obviously, is distressing for patients.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Two thirds of all critical care patients, 4,000 in total
0:02:04 > 0:02:06spent too long last year, according to their broad,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08waiting to be discharged, often because hospital
0:02:08 > 0:02:13wards were full.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16That is a problem considering Wales has fewer critical care
0:02:16 > 0:02:18beds than almost all of the rest of Europe.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Germany is way ahead, with almost 30 beds per 100,000 population.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22The Welsh NHS has just under six.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Only Sweden and Portugal have fewer.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26But the report does say some excellent work is happening
0:02:26 > 0:02:28with survival rates increasing and hospital infection rates amongst
0:02:28 > 0:02:30seriously ill patients going down.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Even so, the Welsh government says health boards must work together
0:02:32 > 0:02:39quickly to sort things out.
0:02:39 > 0:02:49Opposition parties are scathing.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54We know what we need.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55We need more doctors and nurses.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58We need a workforce plan in place that fulfils the needs of Welsh NHS
0:02:58 > 0:03:00now and into the future.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Until this current government admits that there is a problem on that
0:03:02 > 0:03:08scale, as shown in this report, it is not going to be resolved.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10The picture is clear, the department in our hospitals
0:03:10 > 0:03:13responsible for caring for the most critically ill are themselves facing
0:03:13 > 0:03:18a critical amount of pressure.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21This Bank Holiday weekend the RNLI is putting extra teams
0:03:21 > 0:03:22along the Welsh coast.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24It follows a number of deaths across the UK, including three
0:03:24 > 0:03:26in Wales in the past month.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29And tonight the best friend of two men who drowned off Anglesey five
0:03:29 > 0:03:31years ago has urged people to be careful.
0:03:31 > 0:03:38From Rhyl, here's Matthew Richards.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Rhyl's all-weather lifeboat and the smaller inshore vessel
0:03:40 > 0:03:42are primed and ready for a busy bank holiday.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Extra teams will be drafted in across Wales, the crews say
0:03:44 > 0:03:47they have been working hard throughout August, with most rescues
0:03:47 > 0:03:49involving inflatables blown off course, or people cut off
0:03:49 > 0:03:54by incoming tides.
0:03:54 > 0:04:03It's quite a chop out here, and if anyone is swimming,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06or has an inflatable, getting swept out to sea is quite immense.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09What we say as well is that people stay with the inflatables,
0:04:09 > 0:04:10don't jump out.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11That's very important.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13And the other message is, please, don't go
0:04:13 > 0:04:15in after other people.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Today, fortunately, was just a training exercise.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Fred, the dummy, was in the water and the crews were practising
0:04:20 > 0:04:21rescuing him from the waves.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23But any day now, it could be the real thing.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26In the past month alone, there have been three deaths among
0:04:26 > 0:04:27the Welsh coastline.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30In Barmouth, two teenage boys died and a 23-year-old man was swept out
0:04:30 > 0:04:33to sea was swept out to sea in Mwnt, off the Ceredigion coast.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Lawrence Cuthbertson knows the impact tragedies
0:04:34 > 0:04:36like these can have.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Five years ago, he went fishing off the Anglesey coast
0:04:38 > 0:04:39with his best friends.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41They got into difficulties in the sea and drowned.
0:04:41 > 0:04:51Lewis and Calum were 22 years old, and had just graduated.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Things can get out of hand very quickly.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Especially when you're young and having a great time.
0:04:56 > 0:04:57You feel invincible.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59I can't have enough sympathy for any family that goes
0:04:59 > 0:05:05through something like this.
0:05:05 > 0:05:15The...
0:05:15 > 0:05:19It has a lasting effect that you can't measure.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Last year the RNLI's lifeboats were lodged over
0:05:21 > 0:05:241,000 times in Wales, rescuing the same number of people.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Experts say people often misunderstand the strength
0:05:25 > 0:05:27of the sea, and rip currents, fast moving channels
0:05:27 > 0:05:32of water, catch people out.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35The key thing is, don't fight the rip current, it will win.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37It is stronger than you can possibly swim.
0:05:37 > 0:05:43Try and attract the attention of other people around you.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45This weekend, Rhyl beeach will be closed for the annual airshow,
0:05:45 > 0:05:49but Martin Jones and his crew will be poised to race to the rescue
0:05:49 > 0:05:55across the North Wales coast.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Mid and West Wales Fire Service say a blaze which badly damaged three
0:05:59 > 0:06:01warehouses on the Darcy business park near Neath is ongoing this
0:06:01 > 0:06:03evening, although it is much smaller.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Around 50 firefighters brought the blaze under
0:06:04 > 0:06:06control this afternoon but four companies have lost supplies.
0:06:06 > 0:06:14Two appliances will remain on the site overnight.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16South Yorkshire Police say they will "carefully
0:06:16 > 0:06:18consider" releasing the files of their investigation
0:06:18 > 0:06:20into the death of Swansea football fan Terry Coles,
0:06:20 > 0:06:21following a request from his family.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Mr Coles was trampled by a police horse outside Rotherham United's
0:06:24 > 0:06:25ground sixteen years ago.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28An inquest found his death was an accident, a decision
0:06:28 > 0:06:29which was accepted by his family.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32But they're now calling for evidence to be disclosed and 'fresh eyes'
0:06:32 > 0:06:42to look at the case.
0:06:42 > 0:06:451,000 apple trees will be planted in the Pembrokeshire village
0:06:45 > 0:06:47of St Dogmaels after the local history society received almost
0:06:47 > 0:06:50a quarter of ?1 million to plant a community orchard.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52The money, from the Big Lottery Fund will provide training opportunities
0:06:52 > 0:06:54and it's hoped the apples will eventually be
0:06:54 > 0:07:03turned into cider.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05The monks came over from Normandy in France,
0:07:05 > 0:07:07and they brought their own variety of apple trees from
0:07:07 > 0:07:09the region in France.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11And those trees went native, so we still have examples of those
0:07:11 > 0:07:17trees in the gardens of St Dogmaels.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20And those are the trees, the varieties of apples
0:07:20 > 0:07:29that we are going to focus on within this project.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33In football, Swansea City have agreed an undisclosed fee
0:07:33 > 0:07:35with Barnsley for their central defender Alfie Mawson,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37subject to the 22-year-old agreeing personal terms.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Manager Francesco Guidolin has been looking for a defender since captain
0:07:39 > 0:07:48Ashley Williams' move to Everton.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Cricket and it was an exciting finish in Glamorgan's Championship
0:07:50 > 0:07:52match at home to Sussex.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54The visitors reached their target late this evening to win
0:07:54 > 0:07:55the match on the final day.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58They only had two wickets remaining.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Let's take a look at the bank holiday weather forecast now.
0:08:01 > 0:08:08Here's Derek.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10If you've got any outdoor plans for the bank holiday weekend,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13there will be some fine, warm weather and sunshine but there
0:08:13 > 0:08:16is a fly in the ointment as well, some rain and showers expected,
0:08:16 > 0:08:18although saying that, Pembrokeshire they stay mostly dry.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Dry across the whole country tonight.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22The sky clear and that means it will turn quite cool,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25especially in the countryside, with a little mist by dawn.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Tomorrow morning, dry, bright in Mid, North
0:08:26 > 0:08:28and West Wales, hazy sunshine.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Cloudy though in the south-east, maybe the odd light
0:08:30 > 0:08:31shower near Chepstow.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Across the rest of the UK, a warm front lying through southern
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Across the rest of the UK, a warm front lying through southern
0:08:37 > 0:08:40England will generate some rain and showers which could be heavy
0:08:40 > 0:08:41and thundery in places.
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Moving slowly northwards during the day.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Elsewhere, dry, sunny spells, a few showers in Scotland
0:08:45 > 0:08:47and turning very warm and humid again in south-east England.
0:08:47 > 0:08:4827 in London.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Cloud increasing across Wales tomorrow afternoon.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Maybe a few showers turning up.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Although there is a good chance that the North and west
0:08:55 > 0:09:02will stay dry.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Temperatures on the warm side with light winds.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Tomorrow evening and overnight, showers will become more
0:09:05 > 0:09:08widespread, some heavy rain is possible in the north.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Drier in the south-west, bar a few showers.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14On Sunday, scattered showers, heavy in places.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Some dry, bright spells as well.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17The best of the sunshine in the north and West
0:09:17 > 0:09:19later in the afternoon.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Now, bank holiday Monday doesn't look too bad actually.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Mostly dry and settled.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Some patchy cloud, sunny spells and pleasantly warm with a light
0:09:24 > 0:09:32to moderate breeze.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34So, not completely dry this bank holiday weekend but some fine
0:09:34 > 0:09:36and warm sunshine to enjoy as well.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42That is all from me.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Have a great weekend.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Mwynhewch y penwythnos.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48And I'll see you next week.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50That's Wales Today.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55From all of us on the late team, good night.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03It's Biscuit Week.
0:10:03 > 0:10:03It's Biscuit Week.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Must try not to drop them.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07It's going to be messy.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09First batch in...