Welsh and UK governments must work together to protect the health service, says one leader.
"In the run-up to Christmas there were multiple hospitals across Wales, across all health boards pretty much who were at the very highest level of pressure having to postpone care and treatment for people who were really needing it."Image caption,Mr Hughes said politicians needed to commit to a long-term plan to put these things right.
"The NHS in Wales is in a hugely difficult situation, there's a crisis in the NHS, and there's a crisis in social care - we're facing the toughest times we've seen." Other hospitals, like Morriston in Swansea have been asking people not to turn up to A&E unless it is a life-threatening injury or illness.
"The pressures on our staff are tremendous, not only are they themselves falling with influenza, vomiting bugs, and Covid, they also have to deal with the fact that there are a significant number of vacancies across both health and social care that are adding to these pressures of the illnesses that we are seeing as well."
"What we have seen now for at least the last 10 to 12 years across the UK is an NHS that hasn't been funded or looked after properly, and as a result it has been run at risk for a long time now, before Covid.
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