Monmouth-based ambulance campaigner Mat Davies has written to Mark Drakeford, the chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee at the National Assembly of Wales, calling for a cross-party Scrutiny Inquiry which addresses consistent systemic failures.

This follows a petition delivered to the Senedd earlier this year, research undertaken at Cardiff University, and several meetings with the Monmouth Health Group, and the chairman of the trust.

In January Mr Davies organised a public meeting in Monmouth which addressed concerns related to a series of cases regarding ambulance response times.

The petition was launched at the end of the meeting and later signed by 450 people. It was delivered at the stairs of the Senedd on 7th February and taken up by the Health and Social Committee for consideration later that month.

Earlier this month the Health Minister, Lesley Griffiths, announced a review into the Ambulance Trust in response to questions raised in the Senedd.

Mr Davies has conducted in-depth research into the trust's performance in Monmouthshire and is disappointed.

He says "it is clear that this will not address the underlying problems the service faces in the short and medium-term".

In the letter sent to the Health and Social Care Committee, he states that "a scrutiny inquiry should be prioritised" focusing on "accountability, transparency and capacity', which would address the underlying causes and systemic failures observed by a series of cases in the last two years.

This includes a series of failures such as addressing funding difficulties, the absence of adequate resource deployment, and performance targets.

Mr Davies will be delivering a series of presentations to town councils in south Wales throughout December and January drawing on research conducted at Cardiff University, funded by the James Pantyfedwen Trust.