TY - JOUR T1 - Future Hospital update from Wales JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 75 LP - 75 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.14.019 VL - 1 IS - 2 AU - Rhid Dowdle Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/1/2/75.abstract N2 - It has been a busy few months here in Wales, both for RCP officers and service quality advisers, and for those of us working in the NHS. The new chief executive of NHS Wales, Dr Andrew Goodall, has started in post; the Welsh Government published a wide-ranging independent review into the way the NHS collects and uses mortality data in Welsh hospitals; and a major report into the complaints system in Wales led to calls for a new independent regulator to handle patient complaints. Furthermore, the independent Andrews report, Trusted to care,1 outlined highly publicised failings in elderly care at Neath Port Talbot and Princess of Wales hospitals in south Wales. With the publication of the final plans for reconfiguration in south Wales, the political row has recently died down as the hard work of implementing the reform takes over. The South Wales Collaborative, a clinically-led programme made up of five health boards, has announced three new acute care alliances, which will require clinicians to work … ER -