内容摘要：SDASS said the decision will result in the loss of its current integrated support service in the town from October.

SDASS said the decision will result in the loss of its current integrated support service in the town from October.

I'm sitting in the back of an ambulance outside the emergency department at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran.I am trying to count the number of ambulances...11, 12, 13, no... 14, is that 15? All have patients onboard, all waiting for a bed.

I've waited eight hours with my partner's father in the back of an ambulance after he suffered a stroke on Monday.It comes less than 24 hours after the first minister Eluned Morgan said she wants to hold NHS bosses toThe ambulance was called just after 10:00 BST and he was brought to the hospital just after 12:30.

As I sit with him his blood pressure is high, 156 over 114. An ambulance technician adjusts the cuff around his upper arm. Observations are taken and passed on.By the time he is seen by doctors, he has already been lying in the ambulance for more than two hours.

He is taken into a side room just across the hall from resuscitation.

On the plastic panelled wall there are six showers with seats below. "What’s this?," I ask.Speaking after the meeting, Binet defended the decision to get rid of the women's health strategy – a strongly criticised move.

He said: "We are oversubscribed last year on our budget and we were oversubscribed this year, and it's not because of a lack of discipline, there is a lot of savings going on, the cost of health requirements are going up exponentially, way above the cost of living."The minister told the scrutiny panel that he would need in "excess of £100m in five years to improve preventative care including women's health, and I want that as additional money. I don't care where that money comes from, even if it's the strategic reserve."

Doublet said she was concerned by those remarks.She said: "It is concerning that the strategic reserve fund might be used for health funding, and that's something the panel will be discussing and we will be questioning the minister further on that."