A health board in Wales has declared a major incident and has asked patients to only attend one of its hospitals in life-threatening cases. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has said its services are under "under sustained and unprecedented pressure".
The health board has declared a "business continuity incident" - known as a black alert - which is the highest alert level available.
A spokesperson said the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran is seeing "a record number of attendances" and that non-life-threatening patients were waiting more than 14 hours to see a doctor. Saying it had "very few beds available" across its hospitals, a health board statement asked patients only to attend the Grange if their condition was life-threatening or if they had a serious injury.
