Nurses are having to buy food for patients out of their own pocket at a Welsh hospital.
A man who waited 30 hours in A&E said the situation there was “disgusting”. Paul Terell from Treherbert, went to A&E at the Royal Glamorgan after he experienced shortness of breath on Saturday night. The scene he described was all too familiar for NHS users in recent years.
The huge issues and pressures facing the welsh NHS have been well documented. There are massive backlogs, many of which predate Covid. There are also real problems getting people out of hospital beds and into social care. The inability to admit people from A&E has also led to many ambulances being unable to offload patients and effectively being used as an auxiliary for accident and emergency. You can get more health news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
