'Inexcusable' risk to patient safety, health watchdog warns

Some patients in Wales may have died because the NHS is failing to respond quickly enough to UK-wide alerts on patient safety, a health watchdog has said.

Action Against Medical Accidents said none of Wales' seven health boards hit deadlines to comply with all alerts.

Patient safety alerts are issued when things have gone wrong repeatedly in the NHS causing harm or even death.

The Welsh government said it took patient safety very seriously.

But Cathy O'Sullivan, acting director of the board of Community Health Councils in Wales, told Felicity Evans of BBC Radio Wales that missing deadlines was "inexcusable".