Tories hit out at Welsh Government over reduction in hospital beds

This has been known for years, so where have Plaid been on this subject ????

They are right however there will be mitigating issues but I am looking at a main party that dismantled the NHS and totally messed it up and the off shoot in Wales saying this. The hypocrisy is off the scale. And Darren Millar, as long as he leaves that toxic dump and musk stooge ARTD off the lead spouting hate and painting targets on MP's, I cannot take anything he says seriously. Lets see ARTD shut up and put on the naughty step and Mr Millar on the front foot tackling this with policy he will put up. Not stating the bleeding obvious. Show us the sums. The workings out. You know the budgetary constraints, you have the people and the access to data, lets see the plan. Otherwise I see artd as Welsh Cons leader still and the Welsh Cons cabinet is just ARTD side show grumbling at the weather.

And beware of Musk puppet Farage saying they could win an election and form a government in Wales they want to get rid of the N H S and sell it it of to the yanks

Wales' NHS is funded per spending on NHS in England. The number of NHS beds in England decreased when the Conservatives were in power between 2010 and 2024. From 153,725 beds in 2010/11 to 136,508 in 2021/22. (see link for source) that is a little over 10% drop. The Welsh government cannot protect us from spending cuts in Westminster. Financial reigns control what they can do. https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-hospital-beds-data-analysis

And it seems you support A very far right English Nationalist party called Reform who want to sell of the N H S it will not get better but FAR FAR worse you want the American system pay high insurance and then they will not pay out or if you have not got insurance and cannot pay you suffer as an N C O instructor in the Army 50 years ago we used to say you cannot educate pork think about i will vote Plaid

I took my wife to Grange A&E on Monday afternoon straight from GP who was concerned she had brain bleed, saw A&E Doctor 5am Tuesday, 15hrs later he thought same and ordered a head scan and referred to med team, sent to sit in waiting room at 11am med team said scan inconclusive she was being admitted when bed available, sent back in waiting room had a mri on Tuesday pm and chest X ray, sent back to waiting room, at 5am Wednesday morning a nurse called her from waiting room to do observations, the A&E doctor from 24 hours earlier could not believe she was still in waiting room 37 hours later. He arranged for her to have a reclining chair in area of last 2 bays of A&E where bed removed and 7 other reclining chairs had patients in already. She was able to try and rest while getting more tests that day. I saw over 20 ambulances at one time outside and several patients on trolleys in area of Medical Assessment and Radiography. The closure of all A&E in Aneurin Bevan HB concentrating service at Grange has been a disaster for patients in Gwent.

Yes but this was true before devolution started. because Barnett formula is not fit for purpose. We have an older population, we have higher poverty we have all the criteria that make health worse, and have done for decades before devolution. But we are given no funding to allow us to catch up. Read this House of Lords report for one example - many others are available. Excerpt from summary. NB this was written in 2008. "Although the annual increment in funds is made on the basis of recent population figures, the baseline—accumulated over the last thirty years—does not reflect today's population in the devolved administrations. The Barnett Formula also takes no account of the relative needs of any of the devolved administrations.    A new system which allocates resources to the devolved administrations based on an explicit assessment of their relative needs should be introduced. Those devolved administrations which have greater needs should receive more funding, per head of population, than those with lesser needs. Such a system must above all be simple, clear and comprehensible. It must also be dynamic: able to be kept up to date in order to respond to changing needs across the United Kingdom." https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldbarnett/139/13903.htm

Cardiff and Vales NHS Trust are the worse for this they have reduced beds in an unbelievable way. Surgical beds have been reduced in way that is way in Cardiff you have to wait so long to have your surgery

Unbelievable! With patients being held in ambulances, on trollies or chairs!