Jenny Rees

1 month ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Jenny Rees |Hywel Griffith

Ambulance response times improved in February , with 51.1% of the most urgent "red calls" receiving an emergency response within eight minutes [Getty Images]The waiting list for hospital treatment in Wales has fallen slightly for the second month in a row. But the Welsh government's target to reduce the numbers waiting longer than two years – in most specialties – has still not been met.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Jenny Rees

Jenny ReesHealth correspondent, BBC Wales NewsThe waiting list for hospital treatment in Wales has fallen slightly for the second month in a row. But the Welsh government's target to reduce the numbers waiting longer than two years – in most specialties – has still not been met. In January, 613,000 patients were waiting for 796,802 treatments to take place, down from 800,395 in December.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Jenny Rees |Owain Clarke

Ambulance targets overhaul to 'save more lives'Jenny Rees & Owain ClarkeHealth correspondent, BBC Wales NewsBBCAmbulance response targets will be overhauled to focus more on survival rates, the Welsh government saysAmbulance response time targets in Wales will be overhauled, the health secretary has announced. The current target of responding to 65% of red calls - the most serious - within eight minutes has not been met for more than four years.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Jenny Rees

I didn't think I was skinny enough for eating disorder helpJenny ReesHealth correspondent, BBC Wales NewsBBCRhi Rennie-Morgan says her own experience with an eating disorder allows her to better support those currently getting treatmentIt took Rhi Rennie-Morgan three years to seek help for an eating disorder, because she did not think she was "skinny enough". Seven years on, she is a peer mentor helping others in the same service that supported her and sees it for the misconception it was.

2 months ago | bbc.com | Jenny Rees

I planned my funeral but new surgery means I'm cancer-freeJenny ReesVictoria ReitzeVictoria needed multiple organs to be removed as the cancer was so widespread, but 10-hour surgery left her free of diseaseTwo years ago, Victoria Reitze was planning her own funeral. Diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, which had spread to her ovaries, liver and peritoneum, she was told palliative chemotherapy might extend her life by a year.