WHEN Colin Parker fell dangerously ill earlier this year after picking up an infection following knee replacement surgery, the intensive package of care he received at home in Croesyceiliog prevented him having to go back into hospital.

Lack of funding is hampering the tackling of domestic abuse in Wales, says a new report today.

Dozens of young people known to social services and youth offending teams across Wales could be at “significant risk” of sexual exploitation a shock new report reveals.

A new study of people living with the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) has shown the true economic cost amounts to more than 67 million pounds a year in Wales.

Another dead baby, without even a proper name to call him by¹. When my children were little I used to wonder what they were going to look like when they were grown up. When I see the pictures of

Ninety jobs are to be lost with the closure of a respite care centre for disabled people. The Jane Hodge centre in Trerhyngyll, near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, will close in January after fulfilling its Christmas and New Year bookings.

STAFF at Neath Port Talbot Council have clocked up around three centuries worth of time off sick in just one year. Between them, the authority’s employees racked up an estimated 106,200 days off in 2007/08.

A Pembrokeshire nursing home owner has won a top award for her 40-year contribution to the care of the elderly and vulnerable in south west Wales.

A WREXHAM-BASED AM is giving her backing to a nationwide survey into abuse of the elderly. Eleanor Burnham, Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for North Wales, has sponsored the launch of Age Concern’s “Advocacy Counts 2” survey into elder abuse, which took place at the National Assembly for Wales.

INEQUALITIES in services for people affected by Parkinson’s are robbing them of their quality of life, according to a new group which has won the support of a Wrexham man.