A MAN trapped in hospital for six months needs specialist care but the health board refuses to move him, his desperate family have said.

Tim Miles, 62, and his family, feel he is being “left to die” by Hywel Dda Health Board as doctors at Prince Philip Hospital have failed to find what is causing his sever respiratory problems and he is left with only a breathing machine to help keep him alive.

Mr Miles wants to be moved to a specialist neurological hospital to try and get to the bottom of his problems, and improve his quality of life, but the health board will not send him for treatment elsewhere.

Mr Miles is a former Crymych firefighter, saving hundreds of lives over his 20 year career, as well as a fit and healthy motorbike racing champion and engineer. He is a shadow of his former self after his problems started after an increase in dose of pregabalin for severe pain caused by misdiagnosed blood clots on his lungs.

The lack of any prognosis or treatment follows a number of issues encountered by Mr Miles within Hywel Dda including being kept in Glangwili Hospital for 12 days being treated for an “infection” which was in fact a broken back and suffering a stroke while “left overnight” at Prince Philip Hospital without his oxygen machine.

He has also been told he had Motor Neurone Disease, which is not the case, and that his issues stem from radiation poisoning from his time on Royal Navy submarines, an idea found ludicrous by Mrs Miles, who said: “Of course, when you leave the Royal Navy, they check you for any exposure.”

Mrs Miles added: “This is a living nightmare, everything is a battle. It’s been going on too long, Tim needs to be somewhere they can actually try to help him.”

Tests the family feel could have been done much sooner have only just started to be done, but even that has created problems said Mrs Miles, with Mr Miles taken to Morriston “via the back door” because of hospital “politics” without any of his required drugs or breathing machine.

Mrs Miles says she has lost trust in Prince Philip Hospital to help Mr Miles, who is determined to get some quality of life back, and wants him to get the best care possible in London.

“If London say there’s nothing else that can be done then I’ll accept that but I won’t accept that from here,” she said.