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Minister for Health and Wellbeing Sarah Murphy said the Welsh government was working to address factors that affect wellbeing.

However, the report also stressed the importance of considering both cost and "non-cost factors", such as visual and environmental impacts, pointing out that underground cables had lower visual impact than overhead lines.

But other factors are driving the latest round of layoffs, economists say.

"There are so many different factors that children have to face in order to have clean and correct uniform that is used daily," he says.

The authors argue that the NHS should be prepared for winters like this one and that blaming external factors such as winter bugs risked offering "false comfort" about the state of the health service.