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| Betsi Cadwaladr health board chief executive suspended | Betsi Cadwaladr health board chief executive suspended |
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| The chief executive of a health board placed in special measures has been suspended with immediate effect. | The chief executive of a health board placed in special measures has been suspended with immediate effect. |
| Betsi Cadwaladr chairman Peter Higson said the suspension of Prof Trevor Purt was a "neutral act" while arrangements for special measures were sorted out. | |
| An interim chief executive will be appointed and a meeting held with the Welsh government in the next few days. | An interim chief executive will be appointed and a meeting held with the Welsh government in the next few days. |
| Health Minister Mark Drakeford is due to give details later about how health services in north Wales will be run. | Health Minister Mark Drakeford is due to give details later about how health services in north Wales will be run. |
| 'Watershed day' | |
| A report found "institutional abuse" at the Tawel Fan mental health ward in Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire. | A report found "institutional abuse" at the Tawel Fan mental health ward in Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire. |
| It said the unit, which was closed in 2013, treated some patients like animals in a zoo. | It said the unit, which was closed in 2013, treated some patients like animals in a zoo. |
| The suspension of Mr Purt was confirmed at a meeting of the Betsi Cadwaladr health board on Tuesday. | |
| Dr Higson said it was a "neutral act" to allow us "the space and time to follow due process", adding that the appointment of an interim chief executive was in hands of the Welsh government. | |
| He said he welcomed the decision to put the board into special measures, saying it was "clear" the board needed "significant support" to meet the challenges it faced. | |
| Dr Higson said it was a "watershed day" adding that it was "in all our interests to get this right" if the board was to regain the trust of the people of north Wales. | |
| He said the board was still waiting to hear details of how things will now work under special measures. | |
| Opening a discussion on the Tawel Fan scandal, the chairman said events there had been "despicable, unforgivable and shameful", offering the families a "profound" apology and a wider review. | |
| Donna Ockenden, who wrote the damning report about the ward, told the meeting that patients had "suffered terribly when they should have been in a place of safety". | |
| Relatives of some of the patients addressed the meeting, one saying they had doubts that the report would prevent similar "atrocities" happening on other wards. | |
| No 'micro-managing' | |
| On Monday, Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the decision to put the Betsi Cadwaladr health board under more direct Welsh government control reflected "serious and outstanding concerns" about its leadership. | |
| But speaking to BBC Radio Wales on Tuesday, he said: "We will not be micro-managing. | But speaking to BBC Radio Wales on Tuesday, he said: "We will not be micro-managing. |
| "We will work through people who are on the ground in north Wales, whose commitment to health services in north Wales is huge." | "We will work through people who are on the ground in north Wales, whose commitment to health services in north Wales is huge." |
| "The idea that Cardiff Bay is best placed to make detailed decisions about what goes on on the ground in north Wales does not, to me, seem to be a plausible one," he added. | "The idea that Cardiff Bay is best placed to make detailed decisions about what goes on on the ground in north Wales does not, to me, seem to be a plausible one," he added. |
| Opposition parties have claimed the board should have been placed in special measures sooner. | Opposition parties have claimed the board should have been placed in special measures sooner. |
| Mr Drakeford is due to update AMs on his plans with a statement in the Senedd on Tuesday afternoon. | Mr Drakeford is due to update AMs on his plans with a statement in the Senedd on Tuesday afternoon. |
| Dr Richard Lewis, Welsh secretary of doctors' organisation the BMA, said the minister had been left with "no option" but to put the board into special measures. | |
| He added: "It is important that whatever actions are now taken lead to increased public, patient and health staff trust and involvement in the organisation and its decisions on service implementation leading to secure quality and safety of services." |