A leading doctor has said that this winter is proving "significantly harder" for the Welsh NHS than other years, as pressures on staff mount. Dr Olwen Williams, the vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians in Wales, told the BBC that the pressures on staff were "tremendous" and that they were suffering "moral injury".
Dr Williams said that the combination of staff shortages and vacancies, alongside illnesses which are also impacting the workforce as well as the public, is adding to the pressures the NHS in Wales is facing.
She said: "The pressures on our staff are tremendous, not only are they themselves falling with influenza, vomiting bugs, and Covid, they also have to deal with the fact that there are a significant number of vacancies across both health and social care that are adding to these pressures of the illnesses that we are seeing as well."
