article_snippet: The restrictions are being imposed because of the 'economic climate' and to 'cope with the funding cuts', the largest health board in the principality said yesterday.
article_snippet: Labour, which runs the Health Service in Wales as a result of devolution, has cut health funding by more than 8 per cent since 2010.
article_snippet: But in England, where the NHS is under the control of the Coalition, spending has risen slightly in real terms since the election.
article_snippet: The Daily Mail has focused on some of the adverse effects of the cuts including longer waits for ambulances, far more people waiting more than four hours in A&E than in England, and poor cancer care – with some Welsh patients being forced to move to England to get cancer drugs.
article_snippet: In January the strain on the NHS was highlighted when the furious wife of a paramedic posted online a photograph of at least ten ambulances – together with three rapid response cars – waiting outside Morriston Hospital in Swansea to unload patients at Swansea overwhelmed A&E department.
article_snippet: Last night the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew Davies, said: 'Welsh Labour's savage cuts to the NHS have come at a time when spending has been protected in other parts of the United Kingdom, with obvious consequences. '
article_snippet: Not only have we recently witnessed the worst ambulance response times since records began, more patients than ever are waiting over 12 hours in A&E, and Welsh cancer patients continue to be denied access to life-saving drugs which are available in England under the Coalition's Cancer Drug Fund.'
article_snippet: How the Mail exposed the crisis: Ten ambulances queue to unload patients at an A&E in Swansea .
article_snippet: Yesterday Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, which covers much of north Wales said in a statement that, with the 'current economic climate putting a sharp focus on public spending', the local NHS needed to take 'tough decisions' to help address 'gaps in funding'.
article_snippet: A 2 per cent reduction would reduce our costs by an estimated £80,000, which at a time when the NHS NHS is under constant pressure is a significant amount. '
article_snippet: ÷Doctors from the Clwyd North division of the British Medical Association have passed a vote of no confidence in the same Welsh health board over Welsh plans to downgrade the maternity unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan for 12 months.