The welsh assembly Election results are in, and it's been announced by BBC Wales that Jack Sargeant has won the seat that his father left behind. He will now be the Community and Children's Minister and AM to Alyn and Deeside, and will represent the council of Flintshire in North Wales. Clwyd West AM Darren Millar says that the win is all credit of Sargeant and his team, and that Carwen Jones hasn't contributed to this Labor victory. This statement comes as Jones is still facing investigations into how he handled allegations against Carl Sargeant and whether political malpractice caused his suicide.
Sergeants current relationship with Jones is understandably uncomfortable considering the impact the news had on his father, but will have to prevent clashing in order to sustain the parties success. Labour has received by majority a 60.7% vote with a record consensus for the party, as the last vote saw a 14.9% less of a majority. Sargeant is now enroute to Cardiff Bay to succeed his position and start to develop economic and public services strategies for continuing the work of the Labour party in Flintshire.
The National Health Services Health Minister Vaughan Gething has warned of the public slanderously criticizing the NHS on social media. Attributing negative exposure and reception of the NHS to it's shortcomings, he said that there are 10 year record lows of medical student attending education in Wales. Implying that youth are less inclined to join the profession due to the conditions that the NHS is portrayed to subject it's patients to.
Unfortunately for Gething the public are allowed to express concern and anger at the worsening conditions of their NHS and the lower standard of which it now operates. Just because people don't acknowledge a problem doesn't mean that it doesn't exists, and the shortfall of employee enthusiasm in the sector should be addressed by bettering conditions and funding not silencing agitators.
Such criticism in many cases is justified as in the case of Ronny Adams, a 64 year old cancer patient. He had to wait an excruciating 8 months to be given a 62 day treatment for a malignant tumor. However when he was finally seen for the treatment it was discovered that his tumor had grown and was now terminally untreatable. Cases like this highlight the operational inefficiency and low prioritization of patients within the NHS. For public perception to improve funding needs to be increased to better conditions, treatment, waiting times, backlogs, services and staffing.
Check out my last Welsh Overcast for more national coverage:
https://steemit.com/wales/@blockchainboom/welsh-overcast-no-15
