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Glan Clwyd Hospital: Health Inspectorate Wales 'needs reform' Glan Clwyd Hospital: Health Inspectorate Wales 'needs reform'
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Health Inspectorate Wales needs to be taken out of the hands of Welsh government, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams has said. The leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has said scrapping Wales' health watchdog should be considered.
It follows a damning report into the Tawel Fan mental health unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire. Kirsty Williams said a damning report into the Tawel Fan mental health unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire was a "scandal".
Ms Williams said the inspection body had failed as the "final backstop and assurance mechanism" to ensure care was "first class". She said Health Inspectorate Wales (HIW) had failed as the "final backstop and assurance mechanism" to ensure care was "first class".
She said a new regulatory inspection regime should be now be considered. HIW has been contacted for comment.
Families described patients being treated like animals in a zoo.
'Warning signs'
Ms Williams, a member of the assembly's Health and Social Care Committee, told BBC's Good Morning Wales: "All the mechanisms internally within the trust, and then externally, failed to provide the warning signs and the action that the patients, and the families of those patients, needed in this particular case.
"And we really now have to consider whether Health Inspectorate Wales, in its current form, is fit for purpose and can provide that reassurance that we need."
Ms Williams said a new regulatory inspection regime should be looked at, it should also be independent of the Welsh government.
Reform of the whistle-blowing mechanisms in the NHS was also needed, she said.
Prof Marcus Longley, director of the Welsh Health and Social Care Institute, told BBC Radio Wales scrapping HIW was "something that needs to be looked at."
He said the situation in England was "very different" where a regulator has a much higher profile compared with HIW.
"People know about the chief inspector of Hospitals in England - a very senior and respected person. So that profile can be an advantage," he said.