Welsh Assembly Government - This annual publication contains a wide range of statistical information on the health of the population and the range and quality of health care services in Wales.

Welsh Assembly Government - This leaflet contains some recent key health figures for Wales.

So on the very last day of Assembly business out go health trusts and local health boards and in come seven new bodies who'll run the health service in Wales ... just like they did when I lived in a place called South Glamorgan and before terms like service providers and health commissioning had ever been coined. Out go any plans to prevent patients in North Wales to cross the border to receive ne...

Over at Wales Online, Lib Dem Welsh assembly member Peter Black, the party’s health spokesman, explains why an holistic approach to health-care is sovital. Here’s an excerpt: Mental health and wellbeing services have historically been under-resourced in Wales and throughout the UK. Such a position is surprising given the incidence of debilitating mental health problems among

Welsh Assembly Government - These statistics on the health and health-related lifestyle of people living in Wales are based on data from the Welsh Health Survey 2007.

New proposals to improve people's sexual health in Wales, must address "unacceptably high teenage pregnancy rates" in parts of the country, according to a Labour AM. Wrexham's Assembly Member, Lesley Griffiths, was commenting following publication of the Welsh Government's new strategy on sexual health services. The proposed draft working document 'Sexual Health and Wellbeing S...

Royston Jones ( Jac o' the North)has posted the following petition to the Assembly: We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to address the flawed system for allocating social housing in Wales. At present, a person who has never visited Wales can qualify for social housing ahead of someone born and bred in Wales. This is due to the points system giving preference

Welsh Assembly Government - This Statistical Bulletin shows a breakdown of some headline school statistics by Assembly Constituencies in Wales.

Wrexham's Assembly Member, Lesley Griffiths, has called for extra vigilance from the Welsh Assembly Government to ensure that waste electrical and electronic equipment does not end up in developing countries where their safe disposal cannot be guaranteed and where there is increasing evidence that human health is being placed at risk. The AM made her remarks in the National Assembly for Wales...

Last year, this blog discussed proposals by the Welsh Assembly Government to introduce legislation to suspend the ‘right to buy’ for council house tenants in Wales. This was to be one of the first ‘Legislative Competence Orders’ which would, under the 2006 Government of Wales Act, essentially give Wales the power to pass its own laws, albeit after seeking permission from th...