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A&E doctor in 'aggressive' rant at colleague after sleep deprivation

The emergency doctor had worked a gruelling run of shifts before the outburst

Wales Online · Jun 27, 2023

Bungling Welsh hospitals dodge complaints and issue payouts like £750 to a man they didn't tell he had Covid

A Welsh watchdog found hospitals did not have a good track record of listening to people who complained and accepting where mistakes had been made

Wales Online · Jun 14, 2023

'Health chiefs should apologise for my son killing man days after psych unit release'

David Fleet, 20, stabbed 71-year-old Lewis Stone to death in a random attack near the family home in Borth, Ceredigion in 2019 - Fleet had been released from a psychiatric unit days before

Daily Mirror · Jun 5, 2023

Robots to perform hip and knee surgery in first Welsh clinical trial

The robotic trial will be tested within Hywel Dda University Health Board, which manages healthcare in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire

Wales Online · Feb 9, 2023

'Inadequate' response to TB outbreak in Welsh village with cases found a decade later

It is estimated that 31 cases of active TB and 300 cases of latent TB were linked to the first outbreak in Llwynhendy in 2010

Wales Online · Jan 26, 2023

Hospitals ask people to pick up sick loved ones and take them home because they are so busy

Hywel Dda University Health Board is struggling to cope with the high demand for its services

Wales Online · Dec 28, 2022

Welsh hospitals ask people to stay away from A&E due to 'extreme pressure'

A health board has stressed the demand on staff is not caused by ongoing industrial action by nurses

Wales Online · Dec 20, 2022

'A&E waiting room is like a war zone' Report finds worrying experiences of Welsh emergency departments

A report into three Welsh A&Es and one minor injuries units found patients had mixed experiences with some very worrying findings

Wales Online · Dec 15, 2022

Residents forced to move from care homes following 'significant' concerns from councils

Staff have been praised for their hard-work, but issues have arisen over the company's finances

Wales Online · Oct 7, 2022

The three potential sites for a new £1.3bn hospital in west Wales

The new hospital will be built in one of three locations in Carmarthenshire, with the hope that it could be open by the end of this decade

Wales Online · Aug 5, 2022