A REPORT into mental health and learning disability services in North Wales has found that 36 per cent of recommendations to improve them had been completed fully. Conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists between May and December 2023, its authors looked at recommendations made in four key reports into mental health care in North Wales dating between 2014 and 2018. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) was put into special measures in 2015, and again in 2023.
Plaid Cymru spokesperson for Health and Social Care, Mabon ap Gwynfor MS, said: “This is a damning report. “People’s health and wellbeing has been put at risk because of failures to put right decades-old mistakes. “BCUHB was put into special measure, in large part, because of serious concerns around mental health care.
“This report shows that they were on a path to putting things right, but before they could complete the work required, progress was stopped because of the decision of the then-health minister (Vaughan Gething, now First Minister) to de-escalate the health board’s special measures status for political purposes." A number of critical reviews, reports and a prosecution concerning mental health and learning disability services have been carried out across Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in the past few years. As part of the special measures intervention, Welsh Government commissioned the Royal College of Psychiatrists to undertake this review to assess the extent to which t.
