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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A new treatment fund to get new drugs to patients more quickly. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Welcome news for people who've suffered delays | :00:10. | :00:10. | |
in getting the medication they need. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
And the sailor from Bangor in contention to win | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
one of the toughest sporting event in the world - | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
sailing single-handed around the globe. | :00:18. | :00:36. | |
"than any other part of the UK" to new medicines more quickly | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
following the launch of a new treatment fund. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
That's according to the Health Secretary, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
who's announced an extra ?16 million a year to help patients in Wales | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
access new medicines within two months | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
of them being approved as cost-effective. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
It follows concerns that health boards have been too slow | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Even though he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
20 years ago, Simon from Llantrisant | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
has always tried to live life to the full. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
But those experiences are now just memories. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
It is a struggle to get showered, to get washed | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
But he thinks a drug called Sativex, completely wipes you out. | :01:16. | :01:28. | |
which helps ease muscle spasms, could help him. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
It was recommended for use in the Welsh NHS | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
two and a half years ago, but Simon blames a row | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
about who pays for it means | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
his doctor has not been able to prescribe it. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
I've actually been off work for the last six weeks | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
and the thought that this drug could possibly help me | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
with the spasms to the point where it would enable me to get | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Hundreds of new drugs and treatments are developed every year but the NHS | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
can't afford to pay for them all, so it's the responsibility | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
of two expert organisations to assess the benefits and the cost. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
They are called the National Institute for Health and Care | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Excellence, NICE, and the All Wales Medicines Strategy group. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
If they say no, you either have to be a special case for treatment | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
But if they decide treatment is cost-effective, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
it should be on the NHS as a matter of course. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
But that doesn't always happen straightaway. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
The Welsh government will give the NHS an extra ?60 million a year | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
to start delivering new medicines within two months while health | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
boards plan how to pay for them over the longer term. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
If you have a really high cost new medicine | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
which is effective and approved, you can then have a timeline | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
with different health boards being able to deliver that medicine | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
This will mean that there will be a consistent | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
He also says the system here can be used to treat all conditions | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and will be fairer than in England and Scotland, where drugs funds | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
are in place but for specific conditions like cancer | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
But patients hoping this fund will play for unapproved drugs | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
that could help them will be disappointed. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
The pace at which new medicines are developed is phenomenal. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
The problem is that the NHS at times has struggled to keep up. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
The UK Government narrowly avoided defeat tonight in the House of Lords | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
over its plans to re-write the devolution settlement | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
after a vote was tied on a Labour amendment to the Wales Bill. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The amendment would have allowed the Welsh Government | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
to scrap parts of the controversial Trade Union Act in Wales. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
The Wales Bill is due to be approved by Assembly Members next Tuesday. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
More than 20 industrial companies have urged the UK Government to go | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
ahead with the planned ?1.3 billion Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
In a letter to the Financial Times, they say it could start | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
a "new era" in British manufacturing. | :03:56. | :03:56. | |
The lagoon has been given planning consent | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
but has been delayed until the publication | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
of the independent Hendry Review into the viability | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
of tidal lagoon power, due on Thursday. | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
Cardiff Airport could have a new replacement terminal | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
The plan was announced after a 16% rise in passenger numbers | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
bringing the total to over 1.3 million travellers. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
The Welsh Government bought the airport four years ago | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
We have invested heavily, we have significantly improved | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
the experience and the facilities here, but there is a limit | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
to what we can do so we have got long-term, ambitious plans | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
for the business, and really to enable us to get | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
to where we want to be, a new replacement terminal will be | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
The woman who spearheaded a campaign plan as we go forward. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
to open the first children's hospice in Wales has died at the age of 95. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Suzanne Goodall founded Ty Hafan in the Vale of Glamorgan | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
18 years ago - since when the centre has supported | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
hundreds of families with life-limited children. | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
She's in the fabric of the building, in everything we do. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
This really will be her legacy, that she has supported paediatric | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
palliative care and brought it forward so much in Wales. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Suzanne Goodall, who's died at the age of 95. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
It's one of the toughest sporting events in the world - | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
sailing around the globe, non-stop, single handed. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Alex Thomson from Bangor is doing just that | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
and is in contention to win the prestigious Vendee Globe. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
Tonight, after 65 days alone on the ocean, | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
he's in second place, chasing down the leader. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
More people have been in outer space and up Mount Everest | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
And in the vast oceans, a Welshman is hoping to make history - | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
to become the first outside France to win the Vendee Globe. | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
You certainly feel isolated when you're down here. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
There's nobody to rescue you, nobody to help you, | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
The only things around you are birds and albatrosses. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
29 boats set off from the north-west of France on November 6th. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Indian and Pacific oceans, 28,000 miles across the Atlantic, | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
before getting back to the Atlantic and returning to France. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Whilst in the lead, he hit something and the boat was badly damaged. | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
Alex thought he would limp home in tenth | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
but he has clawed his way back, 100 miles behind the race leader | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
with less than 3,000 miles to the finish line. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Alex Thomson's boat is built for speed, not for comfort. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
He doesn't have a toilet, no kitchen either, | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
It looks like something you might give your baby. | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
Alex needs to eat up to 7,000 calories a day. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
He sleeps no more than 20 minutes at a time. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
The reason, when he's sleeping, the boat goes more slowly. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
It's nine weeks since Alex last saw his wife and two young children | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
# Crashing through the waves, in a 16 mono hull. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
There have been other high points too. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
This was captured by one of Alex's rivals off Cape Town. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Alex Thomson says it has been like a war on the waters at times, | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
He's completed 90% of the race and this week we'll see | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
whether a sailor from Bangor can overcome the odds | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
and win the hardest sailing race of them all. | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
Closer to home, there's talk of snow on the way. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
It is a wintry entered a week. They will turn colder and very windy with | :07:57. | :08:16. | |
a measure of rain, sleet and snow at times. Overnight, some dry spells | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
with the odd spot of patchy rain. Not too cold at between 6-8 C. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Pressure starts to rise tomorrow but the wind becomes more | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
north-westerly. These isobars moved close together, signalling stronger, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
cold winds. Tomorrow, early shower should clear. Becoming dry, bright | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
and blustery foremost. Across the UK, dry with bright spells for and | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
rails and England but brisk north-westerly winds bringing wintry | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
showers across high ground in Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Already in the cold air, five Celsius in Scotland, milder in the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
south of England at 11 Celsius. A drier into the day across Wales. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Burning the winds could reach gale force when the coast. -- a warning | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
that. The pressure chart shows | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
this frontal wave coming in from the south-west on Thursday, | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
falling mainly as rain, but where it meets the cold air, | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
snow is possible although there's huge uncertainty about | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
the position of this system. Don't take the graphics literally - | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
some brighter spells, but the likelihood of showers | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
for some, where that front a Met Office warning that any | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
showers could bring a wintry mix It could be further north or south - | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
it's very hard to pinpoint - And it will stay that way into the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
weekend. That's Wales Today. | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
Thank you for watching. From all of us on the | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
programme, goodnight. | :09:55. | :10:01. |