Two-year wait to hear of CJD risk

Health chiefs have admitted they waited two years to contact 38 patients who are at risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after surgery.

Officials at Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board in Wales found a patient was at "high risk" of developing the incurable brain condition in 2009 after surgery in 2007.

There is no confirmed case of CJD connected to the incident.