PRESS RELEASE : Welsh Conservative comment on NHS struggles [December 2022]

The BBC has reported today on the extreme pressures facing staff and patients at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital’s emergency department.

The report reflects the Wales-wide figures that show the Labour-run NHS has three-quarters of a million people on an NHS waiting list, the slowest ambulance response times on records, and the worst A&E waits in Britain.

Commenting, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister Russell George MS said:

“Sadly, these horror stories are becoming a part of daily life within the Labour-run NHS, with staff and patients feeling utterly helpless in improving the situation.

“This is what a cost-of-pain crisis looks like – not just those like the 57,000 people waiting over two years for treatment – but the ones left languishing on trolleys in hospital corridors and stuck in an ambulance unable to go anywhere.

“Is it any wonder nurses and ambulance workers will be striking over the coming months knowing they have to come to work where the system is in this condition? They’re worried that they cannot guarantee patient safety because of it.

“We continually press the Labour Government in Cardiff Bay to put in place our GP Access Plan, our NHS Tech Bundle, surgical hubs, and winter war-rooms – but they would prefer to blame everyone else for how they’re running Britain’s worst-performing health service.”