No easy answers to NHS crisis... but Welsh Govt must find them

IT'S just not good enough, and yet the Welsh Government sems unable to do anything meaningful to change the situation. What am I talking about? You might have guessed, yet again I’m writing about the dire state of the NHS in Wales.

- Judith Phillips

All too often these days we're hearing horror stories of patients suffering because of inadequate services. Last week I heard of an elderly acquaintance who was lying in agony on a pavement in a busy town centre for nearly six hours before an ambulance arrived to take him to hospital where he was found to have broken his hip and arm after falling heavily.

Recently I witnessed the discom-fort and trauma experienced by patients sitting for days on chairs in a hospital corridor while waiting for a bed. Some of them were on drips, others were wearing oxygen masks, and others were begging staff for pain relief. The staff were obviously very stressed and the situation was one I never thought I’d see in a country which once boasted one of the finest health care system in the world. Cymru Wales