Ysbyty Gwynedd had world-class vascular services, until an inept Health Board and 6-y-old flawed consultation came along. Tweets by concerned local citizens.
Prof. Dean Williams ⬇️ headed up a vascular unit in Bangor with world class outcomes for patients. He resigned over the vascular centralisation scandal citing serious concerns. The Board did not listen and patients have suffered. Who is responsible ?
@Eluned_Morgan
@fmwales
@vaughangething
@WelshLabour
God help us all !!
You have blood on your hands.
How many 100s of vascular patients have died at the hands of Betsi Cadwaladr centralised vascular services ?
YOU were Health Minister and rubber stamped the closing of a world class unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
Shame on you !!
Good grief
@vaughangething
@PrifWeinidog
is there no end to the scandal you generate ?
Unbelievable
The look on your face when you realise you are caught out is bloody priceless 👌👌👌🙈🤣
#noshame
Good grief.
@Eluned_Morgan
is off to Mumbai to celebrate.....
Meanwhile , in Wales , nearly every Health Board is in some sort of Special Measures. But that's OK , off she goes to celebrate " in Wales" in Mumbai.
No words really are there
📣 First Minister
@PrifWeinidog
looks East as he gets ready to launch 'Wales in India' as part of
@WelshGovernment
's St David's Day celebrations next week.
Our previous 'Wales in...' years have paid out hugely for trade, sport and cultural exchanges. Watch this space... 🇮🇳🏴
"We are in this position because of ... the mis-management of the economy and public finances by successive UK governments over the last 13 yrs"
Really?
What about the MISSING MILLIONS at Betsi?
What is the total ALL WALES NHS deficit under Labour?
Maybe
@PrifWeinidog
should , first of all, find Betsi's missing millions?
Then, maybe, he needs to ask himself exactly what his best
@WelshGovernment
finance people are achieving in Betsi as it heads for a £134m predicted deficit?
Teg edrych tuag adref
Today's Sunday Times
The chaos caused by the closure of a Bridge
"There is no maternity hospital, no A&E on Ynys Môn"
Take note
@charlotterivers
there is no emergency vascular service in Bangor either - relocated to Glan Clwyd , 30+ miles down the road !
Centralisation fail
Nobody has inflicted more damage on Wales and devolution than
@PrifWeinidog
Shame on any
@llafurcymru
MSs who support him
He needs to go. NOW . Before he inflicts even more damage on Wales and devolution.
DISGRACE OF A MAN .
Under my leadership, Welsh Labour will never shy away from telling the truth about the scale of the damage the Conservatives have inflicted on Wales.
This is why for Wales, the general election cannot come soon enough.
You've lost the plot
@Eluned_Morgan
Patients are suffering and dying. One Report after another is making it very clear that this place should NEVER have come out of Special Measures.
Playing politics whilst people die.
Thank you
@DarrenMillarMS
for standing up for patients
Incredible how
@WelshGovernment
simply closes down anybody exposing their failings
Independent Betsi Board members were fired because they got too close to the truth
Community Health Councils closed down for exposing further serious failings.
Shameful
@Eluned_Morgan
@WelshLabour
Where are we now re the missing millions at Betsi ?
How many staff are still off on full pay ?
Where is
@HeddluGogCymru
/ CPS legal advisors with this ?
How much is this delay costing our struggling Health Boards?
@Eluned_Morgan
Just listening to the Senedd debate re vote of no confidence in
@Amanwy
All the
@WelshLabour
lot worried about deaths on the roads etc.
Not a SINGLE
@WelshLabour
Minister bothered responding to HM Coroner's concerns re deaths of vascular patients at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
SEVEN WEEKS and not a single
@WelshLabour
Minister bothered responding to N Wales Senior HM Coroner
Not even an acknowledgement
Vascular patients in North Wales suffering and dying and
@WelshGovernment
clearly don't bat an eyelid !
@Eluned_Morgan
Oh dear
It seems
@llais_cymru
stand at the National Eisteddfod was boycotted by
@Eluned_Morgan
⬇️
Maybe she didn't want to hear what staff / volunteers / patients might say ?
Very shoddy to ignore the patient representative body that she herself helped set up.....
LIES ! LIES ! LIES !
@Eluned_Morgan
you'll be telling us next that you knew nothing about the vascular services disaster in North Wales.
You knew all about that and you could have acted to save lives and limbs but you chose not to
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
Let's hope
@Eluned_Morgan
is NEVER EVER thinking of running as First Minister because the Betsi critics will absolutely haunt any campaign of hers.
She's had several opportunities to sort out this dangerous Health Board but it's always a " final warning" etc
WE WILL REMEMBER
Did you see this
@Eluned_Morgan
?
Relative of 76 year old describes Third World carnage in A&E as others collapse and cry in pain.
You told us in August that Betsi was " turning a corner" but this story is from last week !
Glan Clwyd , yet again !
This Health Board is rotten to the core and so is
@WelshGovernment
Shame on you
@Eluned_Morgan
for forcing the resignation of Independent Members who instigated this report ⬇️
You are unfit to be a Minister in Government.
Shame on you
Cywilyddus
🚨Many of
@WelshLabour
's
@vaughangething
backers have referred to his "excellent" work as a Health Minister during Covid today.
It's both insulting and upsetting for us💛
Rewriting history whilst refusing scrutiny via a
#WalesCovidInquiry
is not a good look for
@UKLabour
. VG
A woefully inadequate performance by the First Minister
@MarkDrakeford
today in the Senedd. Floundering. Stalling. Missing the facts completely. Vascular Emergencies will be UNABLE to reach YGC in the golden hour. Thanks to
@siangwenfelin
for her passion and perseverance. Diolch!
So they BOTH ⬇️⬇️ said that the Auditor General advised
@WelshGovernment
that Betsi should come out of special Measures....
Dear oh dear
Auditor General says No.
It sounds like a game , yes ?
Sadly it our NHS in North Wales they are gambling with.
Terrifying
Faking documents
Misleading auditors
Millions missing
How many Betsi staff are STILL suspended on FULL PAY ?
Why has it all gone quiet?
Why no announcement from
@NWPolice
?
No mention of this at Betsi Board either?
@Eluned_Morgan
@DailyMailUK
War Zone hospital
HM Coroner expressing concerns, yet again
Gaps in documentation ( like the Royal College reported re vascular )
But
@Eluned_Morgan
wants us all to stop complaining so maybe the Coroner needs to shut up too ?
@Jordon3Jane
@vaughangething
Quite frankly you're the worst health minister this country has ever had. You talk about EQUALITY and then support a centralised vascular service in North Wales which people in the North West cannot even reach in safe time in a vascular emergency. You are a disgrace !
@vaughangething
NHS "safe" ???
Have you STILL not understood YOUR role as Health Minister in the decimation of a world class vascular service in Ysbyty Gwynedd ?
Dangerous centralised service in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd
Have you read the RC surgeons report, HM Coroner comments re public Inquiry etc
Apparantely a Local Authority leader asked
@Eluned_Morgan
at yesterday's Eisteddfod about the sacked Independent Members who were trying to seek out the rot at Betsi
They were decent people, he said. Why are Exec Directors who caused the mess still there, he asked.
Apparantely
@Eluned_Morgan
told the Eisteddfod today that vascular services are improving
Funny that, because HM Coroner doesn't seem to think so, he wants a Public Inquiry
Was she referring to the
@HIW_Wales
Report?
Who set their Terms of Reference then ?
Oh, hang on, she did
@PrifWeinidog
Sort out vascular services in North Wales , for goodness sakes !
Patients and families are suffering. Many have died.
Regulatory bodies have condemned the centralised service.
We lost a world class unit in Bangor thanks to you and the
@WelshLabour
mob. Shameful.
SORT IT OUT !
A highly respected individual ⬇️ telling it as it is !
@Eluned_Morgan
told a public meeting at the Eisteddfod that complainants were undermining the Health Board
If vascular patients and families had kept quiet about vascular services there would have been even more deaths.
Betsi Board seeking legal advice on the leaking of the EY report.
Maybe they should concentrate on finding the missing millions and holding people to account?
Thank God for leaks.
It's the only way we find out the truth at this sorry show.
So
@WelshGovernment
what is the official publication date for the EY Report ?
Why did
@Eluned_Morgan
sack Independent Members who commissioned this Report?
Where are the missing millions?
All this going on and no public Board Meeting until September !
How convenient ....
Betsi going to take on the Daily Mail and the BBC
You just gotta laugh at this lot 🤣
The only way we"ve ever got to know the truth is from leaks
This is all about deflection and blame shifting, nothing else
WHERE ARE THE MISSING MILLIONS?
@PrifWeinidog
Start apologising to vascular patients and families in North Wales.
How many deaths and amputations now ?
YOU were Health Minister who rubber stamped the closing down of a world class service at Ysbyty Gwynedd and replaced it with a dangerous centralised service at Glan Clwyd
Whatever else you do today LISTEN TO THIS CLIP !
@vaughangething
's arrogance is astounding
Lies. Misleading. Incompetence.
He was Health Minister when vascular services were centralised in North Wales and he ignored all concerns.
Many have died.
Who votes for this rubbish?
Can you help settle a debate?
Have a listen, Retweet and let us know. We'll call this...
"With respect, Mr Gething....."
In a radio interview this week,
@vaughangething
claims that
@jamswilliams85
is giving an "unfair characterisation". We'll let you decide.
In this clip, is
...signifying a very cosy relationship between the Betsi's Gary Doherty and Welsh Gov. This is where it all goes so terribly wrong -putting politics before patients. Major investments in Glan Clwyd whilst world class services are closed in Ysbyty Gwynedd. So wrong at every level
An FOI by Plaid Cymru has revealed Labour Government and Chief of Betsi sought to DEFEND making nurses take unpaid breaks.
We also found that one health board in Wales is making nurses take unpaid breaks.
@MarkDrakeford
's response?
"I don't know ... nor do I need to know"
Mark Polin was North Wales most senior Police Officer until July 2018.
In Sept 2018 he became Chair of the troubled Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board.
Betsi is now the subject of a £122m fraud probe.
Surely he should stand down whilst such a major investigation is underway?
Thoughts?
@vaughangething
Look a bit closer to home
@vaughangething
All those patients and families who have suffered because you and
@WelshGovernment
pushed for centralisation of vascular services at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd
Even HM Coroner has called for a Public Inquiry because of concerns
Shame on you !
@MarkDrakeford
Welsh Labour DESTROYED a world class vascular service in Ysbyty Gwynedd at the altar of centralisation.
Glan Clwyd centralised service has been found to be dangerous and not fit for purpose.
Patients and families have suffered.
England NHS is currently helping out......
#Fail
"This could not take place at Ysbyty Gwynedd as there was not a vascular surgeon at the hospital able to perform the operation"
Vascular centralisation fail. AGAIN.
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE ?
@Eluned_Morgan
@PrifWeinidog
@vaughangething
So
@Eluned_Morgan
has had to correct the Senedd record
Admission she told a lie / misled the Senedd
That is surely unacceptable ?
She must go , we need Ministers who are honest and whom we can trust not people who tell blatant lies.
Disgraceful
Wel wel
@Eluned_Morgan
wedi gorfod cywiro cofnod y Senedd
Cyfaddef ei bod wedi dweud celwydd / camarwain felly ia ?
Amser iddi fynd
Da ni angen pobl fedrwn ni ymddiried ynddynt nid pobl sy'n deud celwydd a chamarwain.
Gwarthus
Mystery surrounds the identity of the "Welsh Government Vascular Expert" who allegedly claimed Betsi vascular service is "best in Wales"
Betsi won't reveal the identity and says "ask Welsh Gov't"
WG says have no record of any meeting between Betsi Chair and
"vascular expert"
Ysbyty Glan Clwyd YET AGAIN
HM Coroner expressing serious concerns YET AGAIN
Prevention of future deaths YET AGAIN
But
@Eluned_Morgan
reckons Betsi's turning a corner....
Once again..." chaotic" Glan Clwyd where a basic procedure was unavailable.
@Eluned_Morgan
no wonder you're not running for FM role when these nightmares is the stuff of daily news in North Wales
And this folks, is where vascular services were centralised
Astounding hypocrisy !
Protecting its own....whilst the public suffers.
Was there " one to one support" for vascular patients and families who have suffered as a result of Betsi's failings ?
No , I thought not.
Remember the Consultants, Nurses, Podiatrists and others who all raised concerns re vascular centralisation.
Nobody listened
The Medical Director later admitted, under oath, to misleading the Board
Look at the state of the service in North Wales now...
Serious mistakes which happened in FEBRUARY this year at Betsi
And
@Eluned_Morgan
tells us Betsi is "turning a corner"
The Chair, Dyfed Edwards told us a couple of weeks ago that Betsi is " best in Wales" at some things...
God help us all !
#betsifail
At last.
We have an Article 2 Inquest into a vascular death at Glan Clwyd.
It means there will be an "enhanced investigation" into death.
It will look at the wider circumstances and systematic failures at Glan Clwyd.
Finally. We got there.
@GwynLoader
Just another day in the life of Betsi
But
@Eluned_Morgan
says it'ls nowt to do with
@WelshGovernment
despite the place being in Special Measures....
Funny old world, eh ?
Well worth spending 10 mins carefully watching this ⬇️
It confirms our very worst fears about people like
@PrifWeinidog
,
@Eluned_Morgan
and others.
These people are totally unfit for any public office.
Well done
@cymru_inquiry
on this piece of work.
‼️Is Vaughan Gething the best magician in Wales?🪄
You bet he is! Everything disappears.
We're angry. He cannot get away with this.
The
@covidinquiryuk
is not scrutinising Wales in the depth that is needed. It simply doesn't have the resources to do so.
Our
@WelshLabour
Our totally broken NHS
What an awful way for a 97 year old veteran to end his life.
Totally heartbreaking
Betsi's Nick Lyons apologising...yet again
Another Prevention of Future Deaths Report issued by HM Coroner - Betsi has quite a collection of those now.
@Eluned_Morgan
We were told today that a member of the public wrote to Alun Jones the CEO of
@HIW_Wales
almost THREE WEEKS AGO raising concerns about their re visit and Report of vascular services at Betsi.
Still no reply
Mr Alun Jones clearly feels he is not accountable
What a sorry state
Liverpool are stepping in to cover on call in North Wales now due to extensive concerns
Aortic work virtually not happening now at Glan Clwyd
Without aortic work there is no
"Vascular Service".
In reality, the Unit has closed down now then ?
Centralisation fail
Letby case.
Whistleblowers ignored.
Remember 2019, Betsi ?
Board resignation followed by Senior Vascular Consultant resignation (who also took you to a Tribunal)
Shame you ignored whistleblowers in 2019
Even HM Coroner wants a Public Inquiry into the service...
TOTAL FAIL
"URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO TACKLE DYSFUNCTIONALITY WITHIN THE BOARD AT BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD "
Latest statement by Wales Audit Office ....
🗣️Ystadegau sydd yn peri gofid am farwolaethau y gellid eu hatal yn y gwasanaeth iechyd yng Ngogledd Cymru
🗣️Concerning statistics about preventable deaths in the health service in north Wales.
ANOTHER Prevention of Future Deaths Report for Betsi
How many is that now ? Lost count !
No lessons learnt, according to HM Coroner.
And
@Eluned_Morgan
thinks Betsi is turning a corner.
The never ending Betsi nightmare.
Poor family
They're all kicking off on facebook tonight responding to the BBC story earlier today.
Beginning to name and shame responsible Board members etc....
This isn't going to end well
High time they were all exposed and held to account
#fail
Prof Dean Williams tribunal transcript says :
" The Board's lawyers in this tribunal have conceeded that Prof Wms ON SIX DIFFERENT OCCASIONS made complaints because he genuinely believed that patients were in danger"
What a shame nobody listened to him.
@Eluned_Morgan
@PrifWeinidog
No more shocking than all those poor vascular patients who lost their limbs and lives at the Glan Clwyd centralised vascular unit.
Let's not forget YOU were Health Minister who allowed this to happen. It was on YOUR watch.
YOU are responsible.
Betsi on the main national news tonight....again !
Dyfed Edwards telling the news they're being open and transparent as a Board 🙈
A total embarassment
@PrifWeinidog
@vaughangething
took this Board OUT of Special Measures in 2020
Total scandal
TEN YEARS later and this ......
Stories coming out of Betsi Health Board are nothing short of terryfing at present
Preventable deaths and never events are a tip of the iceberg it seems
Disasters across every department, not just vascular
A Board sitting without scrutiny or challenge is allowing it to happen
Imagine needing to travel from.somewhere like Aberdaron to Glan Clwyd in a vascular emergency or as a long term patient or family visiting. Glan Clwyd is NOT the centre of North Wales. Its only significance in health planning is the Labour AM seats.
June 2023 ⬇️
North Wales HM Coroner wrote to
@WelshGovernment
expressing concerns re vascular services at Betsi
7 weeks later no response from any
@WelshLabour
Minister
HM Coroner deals in deaths
@Eluned_Morgan
was Health Minister
Let that sink in
S4C now televising a documentary about mental health services at Betsi.
We thought vascular services were appalling but it's beginning to look as if serious failings go beyond vascular.
Some very serious allegations here
#holdenreport
@maxblunt
@dempster_mair
@mair_bethan
Folk ask "why do you bother carrying on fighting this vascular stuff?"
It's simple really.
A Med Director lied.
A Board failed in its duty to scrutinise. A world class service was dismantled. We lost top clinicians.
Patients suffered.
Many died.
Accountability, that's why.
Duty of Candour.....
Hmmmmmm
Now then Jack, you don't need to look very far to see some truly serious issues- Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board.
Centralised vascular services have been condemned by the Royal College of Surgeons and serious concerns raised by HM.Coroner
#labourfail
The scales of justice in this country are tipped towards the powerful, and basic principles like a duty of candour are missing.
We can never allow an injustice like the
#PostOfficeScandal
to happen again, and that is why we need a
#HillsboroughLawNow
.
Congratulations to Professor Dean Williams and his team who have exposed how lies and corruption led to the closing down of a world class vascular unit at Bangor. Those who have lied and misled will continue to be exposed. We will now be pushing for a Public Enquiry.
Remembering it is 12 months since Prof Dean Williams resigned his post at Ysbyty Gwynedd. A world recognised limb salvage expert, thrice NICE quoted whose commitment to patients was immeasurable. He was a hugely respected clinician. Shame on Betsi Board. A national scandal.
I asked an ex Betsi Vascular Consultant today how many vascular "never events" he had encountered in Bangor in 13 years.
NONE .
NOT A SINGLE ONE.
Now we've had FOUR in a month.
Please can somebody explain to me again about vascular centralisation benefits ?
What a DISASTER!
Drakeford says Betsi staff feel their efforts are scrutinised in a hostile way.
When the public has raised concerns over and over and over again and then patients die, it's a bit obvious the public are going to be cross.
Betsi is failing North Wales.
Today's Daily Post
1 A wrong operation undertaken on a vascular patient- a new surgeon unable to view images
2 An artery tied to the WRONG leg
3 Thrombus patient DIED due to lack of care
Glan Clwyd Vascular Unit
@Eluned_Morgan
you are complicit in this mess
Yet another call for a PUBLIC ENQUIRY, this time from
@siangwenfelin
We have now gone from WORLD CLASS vascular services in North Wales to the very WORST IN THE UK.
Patients are suffering and dying.
This must stop
@Eluned_Morgan
Sources inside Glan Clwyd report a further "never event" at the vascular unit.
Some patients likely to be sent to Liverpool now - at least they will be safe there
@Eluned_Morgan
why, in God's name, did you continue supporting this dangerous service ? You have blood on your hands
S28 preventable deaths in Wales
21-22 Betsi accounted for 41% in wales
22-23 Betsi was 50%
In the last 9 months Betsi is accountable for 80% of all preventable deaths in Wales
HM Coroner says lessons NOT learnt
400 inquest dates still awaited
How can Betsi's Annual Plan be presented to Board members with no detailed finance attached to it.
This show is ALREADY running a £26.3m deficit for 2023-24.
@Eluned_Morgan
you should be seriously concerned at such failings especially as this place is in Special Measures !
Betsi CEO and Chair " at it" in today's Betsi EGM about learning from the Letby case.
Maybe they need to stand back and look at their own sh*tstorm first and start doing a bit of learning from that... start with vascular services maybe ?
@Voodoolounge12
They're all on about protecting and listening to whistleblowers re Letby case.
A Board member resigned, then a Senior Consultant resigned and took them to a Tribunal - citing patient safety issues. Since then so many deaths that HM Coroner has called for a Public Inquiry.
@vaughangething
seems to have "damaged" most things he's ever dabbled with.
When he was Health Minister he gave the green light for the decimation of a world clasd vascular service at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
Many lives and limbs have been lost since then.
He has blood on his hands
#fail
Powerful letter from
@NWCHC
to
@Eluned_Morgan
@WelshGovernment
keep on believing assurances given by Betsi. In the meantime never events happen, patients suffer and many die
Maybe HM Coroner is finally waking up after a couple of years sleeping at the wheel ?
Shame on you
@Eluned_Morgan
for peddling this cr*p!
You know full well this vascular unit in Glan Clwyd is FAILING.
More people die after some procedures here than anywhere else in the UK. You know this and you allow it to continue. STOP IT
#gwaedardyddwylo
#bloodonyourhands
@JackSargeantAM
@vaughangething
@vaughangething
was a disastrous Health Minister
Look at what happened at Betsi on his watch
Pulled out of Special Measures JUST BEFORE an election, then back in SM again after
Shameful
We lost a world class vascular service at Ysbyty Gwynedd on his watch
Disgusting
All of it
Somebody has contacted the
@llais_cymru
CEO asking whether or not they support HM Coroner's call for a Public Inquiry.
NW Regional Director made it VERY clear that Llais should support HM Coroner
It'll be interesting to see whether this lot actually support patients or the Govt.
Today's Sunday Times
Salford Royal / Northern Care Alliance Trust
A dozen whistleblowers were ignored
Deaths and botched operations
Allegations of a cover up
"It was brushed under the carpet"
Ring any bells ?
#vascularpublicinquiry
Wales Audit Office revealing that Betsi produce their VERY OWN BESPOKE set of Complaints data ...resulting in significantly better numbers for Betsi.
Where will this failing Health Board draw a line under their deceit, lies and misinformation ?