At one time or another, from supporting a dying parent, being there with us when we have our children, to caring for us when we are sick, we have all had reason to be grateful to national health service staff.
I would only request that the Minister considers including the long-term sick in addition to the long-term unemployed , as we have seen from the research evidence of Sheffield Hallam University , given to committee this morning , that as many as 12 per cent of the working population of Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent , for example , have been transferred from receiving unemployment benefit to receiving sickness benefit , and the all-Wales figure is almost 6 per cent of the working population
verse "56" And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Dewiswch yma i wneud y cofnod celc yn barhaollangbot langbot
That has led to great efficiencies and a reduction in the number of overtime hours worked, sickness levels have fallen, and there have been general efficiency gains.
Ni ellid canfod ffeiliau gwraidd i' r awdurdod llofnodi tystysgrifau, felly ni wirir y tystysgrifEnglishtainment upload Englishtainment upload
On dialysis, the machines, the sickness and the living torture of existence dominate your very being, compounded by some very poor facilities, which we have heard about in the recent campaign.
Last week, we passed in the Chamber the ground-breaking Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure with cross-party support, but it now comes to my notice that this was against a background, certainly in north-east Wales, of letters being issued to GP practice managers stating that the primary care mental health teams, previously the first access teams, were going through a difficult period due to sickness and vacancies and that they were down to three—some say two—practitioners, with capacity reduced and waiting times likely to increase.