Free childcare for two-year-olds in Wales’ most disadvantaged areas are among plans unveiled to tackle problems of child poverty.

Around 600 hospital beds could close at two of Wales’ largest hospitals with more patient care taking place in the community, it is understood.

Two Swansea health workers who were restraining a patient at the time of his death have been accused of lying about their evidence.

A new state-of-the-art unit for children and young people in South Wales living with mental health conditions moved a step closer following approval from the Welsh Assembly Government.

A Mentally unstable Port Talbot man died of a paracetamol overdose just days after his father pleaded with social services to help him. Nigel Merrill, aged 45, who lived at Chestnut Road with his father, died at Morriston Hospital on April 26 last year.

The Royal College of Nursing says the number of excess hours being worked by nurses must be addressed by the assembly government.

AN AMMANFORD carer who recently scooped the county’s Volunteer of the Year award has been driven out by the relentless nit-picking’of Assembly care inspectors.

EIGHT nursing home workers were yesterday cleared of the wilful neglect of an 84-year-old woman at a residential home after the prosecution dropped the case.

THE vast majority of doctors believe care services for older people in Wales are not good enough, according to a report out today.

STAFF who need their cars for work such as district nurses and volunteers who take pensioners to hospitals are among the people hit with a motoring stealth tax, it was claimed yesterday.