Public health in Wales: a nation comes of age.

摘要

The battle over NHS reform and public health policy in England has been played out in innumerable newspapers, blogs, and television and radio programmes. Less attention has been paid to the quiet revolution across the border in Wales. Since devolution in 1999, Wales has gradually accrued an increased degree of self-government, culminating in the vote this year to give the Welsh Assembly full law-making powers in a wide range of areas: a result First Minister Carwyn Jones hailed as the day "an old nation came of age".