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