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Welcome to Wales Today. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:03 | |
Patients here are still waiting longer than those in England | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
for key treatments. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:07 | |
Tonight, we ask the Health Secretary if he takes responsibility. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:12 | |
And Melanie Woodcock was sent to prison for not | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
paying her council tax. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:16 | |
The High Court rules she was unlawfully jailed. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:24 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
Patients needing hip replacements in Wales wait, on average, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
three times longer than in England. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:41 | |
Latest figures show that waiting times in the Welsh NHS still lag | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
behind in most of the key categories for treatment and diagnosis. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
But, there has been a big reduction in the wait | 0:00:49 | 0:00:56 | |
for heart by-pass surgery. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
The Health Secretary has admitted the length of some | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
of the waits is unacceptable and reform is needed. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
More from our Political Editor Nick Servini. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
Ab with her dog at home in Newquay in Ceredigion. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
82-year-old Margaret Brazier can now enjoy a short walk | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
thanks to a hip replacement operation last year at nearby wrong | 0:01:13 | 0:01:20 | |
hospital. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
It was cancelled four times but she eventually had the | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
surgery after waiting six months. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
You are on tenterhooks waiting for the phone | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
to ring, waiting for a | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
letter when you are going to be able to come in | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
and you have got pain in | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
your groin. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
It's difficult to walk. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
Just a very frustrating. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
Your life is virtually on hold. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Official figures from last year show she | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
wasn't alone. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
The main statistical bodies for the NHS have found that | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
patients in Wales waited significantly longer than in England | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
in seven out of the 11 categories. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
And the biggest gap was in hip operations, where the average Welsh | 0:01:56 | 0:02:02 | |
wait was 226 days compared to 76 in England. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:09 | |
Elsewhere, waits for a hernia operations in Wales were | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
120 days compared with 43 in England. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
Cataract waits in Wales were 107 days compared with 58 in England. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
But it wasn't all bad. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:25 | |
Cancer waits were broadly the same as in England | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
and there was a dramatic fall in the length | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
of time patients wait for | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
heart bypass surgery in Wales. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
It is very frustrating to see that things | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
aren't better but it is no surprise. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
Everyday we can see the pressure that the hospitals are under when we | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
are working there. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
You can see the pressure that the emergency services | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
and doctors and nurses are under in managing the demand | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
for emergency care. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:47 | |
The Welsh government has come under fire from opposition parties | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
who say the figures are scandalous and in particular hit | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
the elderly the hardest. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
The Health Secretary Vaughan Gething admits some of the | 0:02:57 | 0:03:05 | |
waits are unacceptable but says there needs to be change because | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
the current structure in the NHS is unlikely to deliver the waiting | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
times people want. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
Do you take responsibility? | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
These people are in pain for months longer than they | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
would be if they lived the other side of the border. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
Not everyone who waits deals with pain and | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
discomfort. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
Not everyone who waits and waits in pain but some people do | 0:03:23 | 0:03:29 | |
and for lots of people there is anxiety that goes | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
with the wait for treatment and I have got | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
responsibility overall as a politician for the whole system | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
and I don't try to hide from that. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
My job is to make the case for a public | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
service that delivers high-quality care and the improvements that all | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
of us would wish to see. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
There are no easy answers to figures like | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
these but political pressure on ministers would be to throw even | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
more money at hospitals like this one but that creates even more | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
pressure from other public services that already feel starved of cash | 0:04:01 | 0:04:08 | |
because of demands from the NHS, and then there is the growing | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
realisation that simply throwing money | 0:04:11 | 0:04:12 | |
at it is probably not the | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
long-term answer anyway. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
All the recent attention has been on winter | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
pressures but they rise in emergency admissions has a big knock on for | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
the time it takes to treat patients elsewhere. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
And those preparing for planned operations are often the | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
ones who suffer. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:33 | |
Publication of a long-awaited report into the scandal-hit Tawel Fan ward | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
at Glan Clwyd Hospital is to be delayed again. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
The mental health ward in Bodelwyddan was closed | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
in December 2013, after an inquiry found some patients had been treated | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
"like animals." | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
This comes after the release of another | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
document, suggesting the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
was at risk of failing to comply with laws | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
designed to protect vulnerable people. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
The Board says it's working on measures to reduce risks. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
We have taken the opportunity to put things right. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
We are not waiting, obviously, for the historic report. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
I would say all the evidence we have got and everything I have seen and | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
people I have spoken to say we are giving | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
a good quality of care to | 0:05:12 | 0:05:19 | |
people. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:20 | |
We do not always get it right, and that is for sure, but | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
people can feel when they come in here we give them the kind of care | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
and attention and treatment anybody would want to have and I certainly | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
want anybody to have. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:31 | |
A woman from Porthcawl who was unlawfully jailed | 0:05:31 | 0:05:32 | |
for failing to pay her council tax says she will never recover | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
from her time spent behind bars. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
Melanie Woolcock is calling for a change in the law | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
after being sentenced to 81 days in prison for failing | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
to pay ?10 a week towards a debt of ?4700. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
She was released half-way through her jail term | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
after a charity took up her case. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:52 | |
Caroline Evans reports. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:53 | |
Melanie Woolcock is currently juggling two jobs, running a shop | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
and delivering takeaways. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
As single mother, she says trying to make ends meet | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
pushed her into debt but she was paying it off. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
I fell behind roughly about ten weeks, realised that, | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
and then paid ten weeks in one go but the day I paid the money, | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
a warrant had been issued to arrest me for nonpayment | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
so it was too late for me to do anything about it. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
I think it's wrong that if you are struggling with a bill, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:33 | |
that you are sent into a prison full of criminals. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
When I have never committed a crime in my entire life, | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
never even had a parking ticket. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
And yet they are able to take you into prison | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
for nonpayment of a bill. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Yesterday a High Court judge ruled she had been unlawfully jailed. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
The lawyer who represented her says most cases of this type which go | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
before the High Court are quashed. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
We have won the case in front of the High Court | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
because there was no adequate enquiry into means or investigation | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
into alternate custody. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:16 | |
It is approximately 90% or thereabouts of cases that | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
are quashed by the High Court and it is very unusual in any system | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
to see that number of decisions to be found subsequently | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
unlawful or excessive. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
She only got help because while in prison she found a magazine article | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
on council tax debt and wrote for help from a charity. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
The author of that article says the impact of such sentences | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
on families already struggling financially is terrible and wants | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
an end to imprisonment for all types of civil debt. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
Two people a week go to prison unlawfully so it is a small number | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
compared with all the Magistrates' Courts dealing with all the council | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
tax debt but in terms of the human cost, it is very serious. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
Prisons are not places for people who have financial difficulty, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:09 | |
prisons are there for serious offenders who have committed crimes | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
and caused great damage so it is two people a week and this, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:21 | |
I believe, should be stopped. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
Bridgend Council, which was owed the money, says they have a legal | 0:08:25 | 0:08:33 | |
responsibility to collect unpaid council tax but offer help to anyone | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
experiencing difficulty and prosecution is always | 0:08:36 | 0:08:37 | |
a last resort. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:38 | |
"We understand that the resident in this case was jailed | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
"after failing to meet the requirements of | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
"the suspended sentence issued by the Magistrates' Court", they say. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
Melanie says she will never recover from her experience. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
I was in a prison with, you know, paedophiles, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
murderers, arsonists. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
Not my scene at all. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
She is now working with university law departments to try | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
and change the law. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
Ministers in Wales need to be given confidence their views on Brexit | 0:09:05 | 0:09:10 | |
are making a difference, according the Welsh | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
Finance Secretary. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
Mark Drakeford was speaking after a joint committee on Brexit, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:21 | |
set up by the UK Government, met for the first time | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
since Theresa May said the UK should leave the European single market. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
This is meant to be a fundamental forum. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
It was referenced by the Prime Minister in her speech | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
and I feel that we need to be given confidence by the UK Government | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
that we are not simply here to express our views | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
but that those views go on and make a difference. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
Even the Welsh Government accepted today that the language | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
the Prime Minister used earlier this week about a free-trade | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
agreement with the European Union is not inconsistent | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
with the language they have talked about so this demonstrates | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
there is a lot of common ground but I am not underestimating | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
the challenges that are there. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
A billion pound investment plan for south-west Wales that | 0:09:58 | 0:10:06 | |
would boost digital technology for energy and healthcare projects | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
is close to being approved. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:09 | |
The Swansea Bay city region deal aims to create thousands of jobs | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
and attract a further ?2 billion of investment over 15 years. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
Swansea council says it hopes an agreement with UK ministers can | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
be reached by the end of February. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:24 | |
Two men and a woman have been arrested after an incident | 0:10:24 | 0:10:31 | |
in the Cathays area of Cardiff. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
Armed officers were called to Miskin Street at lunchtime. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
Police said the road was closed to safeguard the public. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
After battling everything the ocean has thrown at him - | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
sailor Alex Thomson is set to receive a hero's welcome tomorrow | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
morning as he finishes second in the Vonday Globe, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
the solo round the world yacht race. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
The 42-year-old, who was born in Bangor, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:56 | |
was bidding to become the first non-French winner. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
But his push for glory petered out after his auto-pilot failed. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
His family say they can't wait to be reunited. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
I can't wait! | 0:11:04 | 0:11:05 | |
I'm so excited about seeing him. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
I have spoken to him and been in contact but actually seeing | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
him is totally different and I cannot wait. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Just so proud and every time I think of him crossing that | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
line and coming down the canal I get very, very emotional. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
Now there's some sunshine on the way to look forward to. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
Here's Derek with the forecast. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
If you're fed up the grey and gloomy weather there is a change on the way | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
and most of us should enjoy someone winter sunshine tomorrow. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
Tonight, cloud in the north, some drizzle, otherwise dry, | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
clearer elsewhere and that means a colder night with some frost, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
one or two mist and fog patches too. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
Tomorrow starts with some cloud in the north but that tends to clear. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
Elsewhere, some frost and one or two fog patches. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
Otherwise many places bright and sunny. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:59 | |
Across the rest of the UK, cloudy for most of Northern Ireland | 0:11:59 | 0:12:05 | |
and the north of England and southern Scotland. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:11 | |
Spots of drizzle. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
Elsewhere, dry and plenty of sunshine across the south | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
and some sunshine also for the north and north-east of Scotland. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
Closer to home it should be a lovely afternoon. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Fine, bright, lots of winter sunshine. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
Temperatures lower than today and feeling a bit chilly. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
A light to moderate breeze. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Tomorrow night, dry, the sky is clear and that means | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
a widespread frost and one or two freezing fog patches and some low | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
cloud later in the night. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
Cold and generally dry on Saturday. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
Some low cloud, some mist and a few fog patches. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
The best of the sunshine likely in the north. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Sunday, more dry weather, cloudy for some of us but a few | 0:12:47 | 0:12:51 | |
places will see the sun. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
A little bit on the chilly side but at least the wind will be light. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
Monday, high pressure still over the UK which means a dry | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
and settled start next week, but there is a change on the way | 0:13:02 | 0:13:08 | |
and it becomes windy with rain by Thursday and turning milder. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
Good night. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
We're back with updates into Breakfast from around 6.25. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
But that is Wales Today. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:17 | |
From all of us on the programme, good night. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:25 |