It comes after a man was forced to carry his grandfather to A&E after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
He said the efforts of NHS staff was to discharge those low risk patients who "can be safely looked after at home" so hospitals have more room to "make sure that people don't face the awful circumstances we described".First Minister Mark Drakeford has denied that the public faces an emergency care lottery
"We have vacancies in care homes here in Wales, we have people waiting in a hospital bed simply waiting for tests to be carried out, which could just as easily be carried out by people being at home, and coming in when the test is needed for them. He added that an ageing population and fewer people of working age meant it was a problem that was not going to go away.Health boards across Wales have said they have hundreds of patients well enough to leave
"Every single day people get help here in Wales, not simply through hospitals and through ambulances arriving, but the fantastic work our GPs do in the community - the 111 system, all those other ways the system can help.
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