South Wales Central Conservative MS Andrew RT Davies has demanded Senedd ministers release a damning report into serious misconduct at Cardiff’s Heath Hospital.
Details of the report were shared with Walesonline, which alleges contamination of surgical appliances and sabotage.
Speaking in the Senedd, Mr Davies demanded Health Minister Jeremy Miles released the report.
Mr Miles failed to commit to doing so.
Mr Davies pointed out the report is just the latest in a number of serious problems affecting the Hospital.
He blamed Senedd ministers’ failure to prioritise the NHS while they focused on other projects.
Mr Davies said:
“For too long, Senedd ministers have prioritised Plaid Cymru separatist and Labour plans to put 36 more politicians in Cardiff Bay and make Wales a Nation of Sanctuary for asylum seekers.
“Our NHS was ignored – this serious failure of leadership led to the failings exposed at Cardiff’s Heath Hospital.
“Allegations of sabotage cannot be covered up – Senedd ministers must release the report.”
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NOTES:
Link to the original article can be found here
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/appalling-hospital-bullying-violence-exposed-33252818
Please find below the Senedd’s record of proceedings from Wednesday 21st January
https://record.senedd.wales/Plenary/15727#C741120
Andrew RT Davies
15:17:08
The hospital sterilisation unit at the Heath hospital came out last week for scathing criticism in a Wales Online report, which revealed a secret report that was done by the health board that has not been made public, with damning accusations of bullying, contamination of surgical appliances, and just general meltdown in that department. Orthopaedic services rely on that sterilisation unit to provide key medical instruments to allow them to perform the functions that they do when people need procedures.
Will you commit today, health Minister, to insisting that the health board make available the report that was concluded in August 2024, following an earlier report in 2016 with similar revelations—bearing in mind that this report has come in light of the report on the operating theatres, and the mortuary potentially losing its licence to operate through poor practice? There are real issues going on at the Heath hospital. I have asked you numerous times to intervene directly. On this simple request, will you commit to making that report available?
Jeremy Miles
15:18:21
So, as the Member will know from my previous responses to his questions—and it is a perfectly fair challenge—I have intervened directly. In fact, the health board is in higher escalation because of the themes emerging from a number of these reviews, including the one that he refers to in his question to me today.
The health board has confirmed that it has a detailed action plan and change programme in place in response to each of the reviews, and that work is underway against those action plans. I propose to discuss those in detail with the Chair of the health board at the next meeting that we have in the coming weeks. The plans cover individual behaviour, cultural transformation, leadership and management reforms as well, operational planning, infrastructure, quality governance, fairness and equity, and monitoring for continuous improvement.
He will know that the health board has responded to the point that he made specifically in relation to the review, and that the board has considered the reports. The reports, I understand from the health boards, have been shared with staff representatives, and work has been underway, since the report was received by the health board, to implement the recommendations in that report.
I do agree with him that the kind of cultural and management challenges that that report, as we have seen in the coverage of it, sets out are not acceptable, and they are not isolated to that report. I spoke to the health board specifically at the most recent public accountability meeting. You will have heard what the Chair said to me in that meeting on these broader questions.
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