Winter pressures, flu and Covid caused Wales' largest health board to cancel Tuesday appointments.
"This, together with a lack of available beds in our hospitals and significant staffing shortages, is leading to extremely long waits for patients to be seen - particularly at our hospital Emergency Departments."
The nursing director said it was an "exceptionally challenging time" for staff across the health service. The health board said it was contacting patients after deciding to postpone "all but the most urgent" appointments at its hospitals on Tuesday.Image caption,On Monday the Royal College of Emergency Medicine - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments -Their vice-president Dr Ian Higginson said some of Britain's emergency departments were in a "complete state of crisis".
Wales' most senior doctor, Sir Frank Atherton, said on New Year's Eve all health boards were "at the highest level of escalation" and described the system as the busiest he had seen.In the week up to Christmas Day, family doctors in Wales diagnosed 1,877 cases of the influenza virus, with 369 people needing hospital care.
More than a third of calls to the NHS 111 helpline were flu related - with the Betsi Cadwaladr board warning that one in five acute beds were occupied by someone with the virus.In a statement, it said anyone with flu-like symptoms should stay away from hospital "unless absolutely necessary".More on this story
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