Sustained and deliberate underfunding of the Welsh NHS by both Cardiff Bay and Westminster has left Wales' health service on it knees.
A special report from WalesOnline has found that political decisions made by the Welsh and UK Governments have starved Wales' health service of funds for over a decade. The investigation found that since 2010 the UK Government has cut the cash coming to Wales while simultaneously the Welsh Government failed to pass on equivalent amounts of funding to the NHS that was being spent in England.
Whether you are a patient waiting up to six (that’s right six) years for a procedure, a member of staff watching your real terms year-on-year pay plummet as you’re asked to do more work with less resource or simply someone who has even a cursory look through the data - Wales’ health service is in a serious trouble. Among many key metrics, it is also performing worse than the health service in England.
