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The number of patients successfully administered a life saving heart drug by Paramedics in Ceredigion continues to grow.

A Welsh Assembly Government pilot programme to tackle inequalities in health has shown that health service providers can achieve change and improve the access to health services, sometimes at relatively little cost, Health and Social Services Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said today.

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is appealing for volunteers to become First Responders in Pantyffynnon and Ammanford.

Patients, carers, members of the public, local organisations and NHS staff are being invited to give their views on the way cancer services are co-ordinated in Wales by the NHS and its partners.

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust showed its support for a scheme that helps some of the most vulnerable people in Society yesterday. (Thursday 14 April 2005)

Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons today attended an event to see how a unique scheme is helping to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society. The Message in a Bottle initiative has been developed and promoted in Wales over the past 2 years by a range of local Neighbourhood Watch Schemes, Lions Clubs and Rotary Clubs.

The Wales Office of Research and Development (WORD), wishes to create a Clinical Research Co-ordinating Centre for Wales.

The next meeting of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Board will take place on April 26, 2005 in the Grand Theatre Conference Centre, Singleton Street, Swansea.

The long service and dedication of Welsh ambulance service staff was celebrated at a special awards ceremony in Carmarthen yesterday. (Thursday, April 7, 2005)

Dr Brian Gibbons establishes Wales Centre for Health

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is running a major recruitment drive to encourage volunteers to join twenty five First Responder schemes across South Wales.

A groundbreaking change in postgraduate medical training begins today with the publication of a new curriculum for junior doctors, part of the Modernising Medical Careers programme.

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is holding its Central and West Region Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Ceremony at The Ivy Bush Hotel, Spilman Street, Carmarthen on Thursday 7 April 2005 at 7.30pm.

The newly established Wales Centre for Health will be another first for Wales, Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said today (Friday, 1 April).

Sir John Bourn, Auditor General for Wales, today published his annual report on the financial performance of the Welsh NHS in the first year of operations under its new structure. Local Health Boards came within their final resource limit by £1.5 million thanks to £8.9 million of additional resources which is to be recovered in future years. NHS Trusts reported a deficit of £9.7 million, making the accumulated deficit at 31 March 2004 £36.7 million.

Health Watchdog and local doctors against guidelines to stop the use of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease

Binge drinkers across Wales are being urged to curb alcohol abuse as part of a joint BBC Wales and Welsh Assembly Government social action campaign called ‘rSod’ (risky single occasion drinking).

Patients across Wales are to get the chance to give their views on how information on healthcare associated infections will be published in future in a series of focus groups.

The Welsh Assembly Government today begins a national drive to tackle back pain, a major source of suffering and a significant cost to the health service and the wider economy.

A Caldicot volunteer group will donate thirty childrens’ blankets to the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust today. (Wednesday 23 March, 2005)

Patients in Wales were today told that in 2009 the maximum total waiting time from referral by the GP to treatment would be 6 months, including waiting times for any diagnostic tests required.

The Welsh Assembly Government’s three year budget for 2005/6 to 2007/8 contained a commitment to increase capital spending in the Welsh NHS from £120m in 2005/6 to £309m in 2007/8.

Brian Gibbons, Minister For Health And Social Services has now released a statement on the major purposes to which this new investment is to be directed. 

A vision of how the Welsh NHS could look in 10 years time has been unveiled by health professionals and experts in a new report 'A Picture of Health in Wales'. 

An ambulance crew had to lock themselves in their ambulance as a gang of men smashed the driver window and kicked the doors to get to a man inside on Wednesday night. (Wednesday 9 March 2005)

Clean air will soon be circulating in Welsh Assembly Government buildings Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said today as he announced that all Welsh Assembly Government estate will be smoke-free by July 2005.