Our people deserve a prosperous future...

found that Wales has higher rates of children living in work-less households, a lower employment rate, a higher unemployment rate and a higher proportion of the working age population without any qualifications than England – and pay levels 8% lower than the UK average. blown by Labour Ministers that was meant to close the gap.

In NHS Wales, 12,539 patients waited over 4 hours for treatment in A & E last month, 3,462 of them in North Wales. Just 83.8% of patients were seen within the four hour target time, compared with 91.8% in NHS England. BMA Wales, representg 6,700 doctors in the lsh NHS, stated that the lsh Government and HS employers had epeatedly failed to heed their professional warnings and that the NHS in Wales was facing “imminent meltdown” unless action was taken swiftly.

However, this First inister dismissed their l for ‘an urgent and fullale independent Walesde inquiry’ into all NHS health services throughout Wales.

Things need to change and in 2015 I will continue to pressure Labour Ministers to alter course. The people of Wales deserve not only a prosperous New Year, but a healthy and prosperous future.