Cymru

Abolish Car Parking Charges at Welsh Hospitals, says BMA Cymru Wales

Doctors leaders in Wales are calling on the National Assembly for Wales to abolish car parking charges at hospitals throughout Wales and release// patients from a heavy financial burden. Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Dr Richard Lewis said: "Charging people to park at hospitals is an indirect ta...

Inadequate Childcare Hits Wales

...families living in the three South Wales cities Cardiff, Swansea and Newport are the worst affected by Wales childcare problem. Clybiau Plant cymru Kids Clubs, which provides out-of-school childcare places and clubs, said childcare provision needs more investment from the government. It has...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

... young adults will see less smoking around them. However, they are still exposed to smoking on TV and are likely to take up the habit as a result. BMA cymru Wales believes that broadcasters have the responsibility to banish smoking from the screen. “There is no dramatic need to show people smoking. Moods l...

Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Labels

... BMA cymru Wales has welcomed the UK government's proposals to introduce picture warnings on tobacco packaging//. Graphic pictures on cigarette packets illu...

Doctors' Bid to End Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace

... Bullying and harassment in the workplace is BMA cymru Wales' response to growing concerns amongst Welsh GPs that bullying and har... on the increase.// Launching the guidance document, chairman of BMA cymru Wales’ GP Committee, Dr Andrew Dearden said: “Unwanted and unprofessional b...

Money Spent On Cancer worth Every Penny

...ovan, director of patient services for Cancer Care cymru said that people have forgotten that cancer has a ...ng. But the job of centres such as the Cancer Care cymru is to drag them back out of that hole and to give ...and help them understand the outcomes. Cancer Care cymru works with other voluntary sector and charitable o...

Indian Healthcare Facilities Come In For Praise

...ealth Service (NHS). The surgery in Bangalore cost her 5,000 pounds. The NHS in the UK has come under criticism for not having treated Parry. Plaid cymru parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd said the case highlighted the problems in the NHS. 'They talk in terms of India being a third world country, but I...

Cymru in Biological News

Has the mystery of the Antarctic ice sheet been solved?

... A team of scientists from Cardiff Universitys School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery surrounding the appearance ...