Proposals to simplify the process for NHS patients in Wales to make complaints are to be unveiled. Health Minister Edwina Hart will outline the NHS Redress Measure, which it is claimed will also give NHS patients fairer access to compensation.

Efforts to wipe out poverty in Wales have stalled in the last two years, according to a damning new report. Across Wales 640,000 people live in poverty, including 180,000 children, and there is no real sign that things are getting better, according to the think-tank the New Policy Institute.

An appeal for two men wanted over the murder of a man who died after being carried into hospital is to be shown on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme.

Swansea Council is developing a wide-ranging action plan and inviting external experts to help deliver an ambitious programme to improve staff recruitment and retention and the protection of vulnerable children. These steps form part of a detailed response following an evaluation by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW).

A mother accused of pouring a kettle of boiling water over her five-year-old son told friends she could not cope, Cardiff Crown Court has heard. The boy, who is now 17, suffered burns to more than 20% of his body in October 1995, the court has been told.

A leading doctor from South Wales has called for politicians to use frontline clinicians’ “wisdom and expertise” to help design patient-orientated health policies for Wales.

Inspectors have raised concerns over the protection of vulnerable children by social services in Swansea.

The Welsh Assembly Government wants to use new powers to make charges for care in the home fairer, BBC Wales’ Politics Show understands. People with disabilities can pay different amounts. Families in one local council area can face twice the care costs of those living in a different area.

At a glittering ceremony in Cardiff’s City Hall nine deserving winners received their Social Care Accolades from Deputy Health & Social Services Minister, Gwenda Thomas AM in front of an audience of 200 people representing the good practice in social care learning and development at work in Wales.

Hospital wards should go back to the days when a sister’s word was “rule of law”, Health Minister Edwina Hart said yesterday.