Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by admin
THE NHS today enters a “new dawn” as the vestiges of the internal market are removed from the health service in Wales. Health Minister Edwina Hart has promised the seven new health boards will signal the start of a more “streamlined” and “citizen-focused” NHS. And she has hinted that another reorganisation could be on the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 6th October 2009 by admin
New figures indicate that smoking is costing the NHS in Wales more than £7m every week. A report commissioned by Ash Wales and British Heart Foundation Cymru reveals that smoking related diseases cost NHS Wales an estimated £386m in 2007/08. Smoking accounts for around 22% of adult hospital admission costs, over £235m every year, the [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th September 2008 by admin
Work on refurbishing facilities at a hospital could begin in the spring, Health Minister Edwina Hart has said. The future of Cardiff Royal Infirmary (CRI) in the east of the capital has been uncertain since it closed as a district general hospital a decade ago. But now Mrs Hart says she wants to develop health [...]
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