7th May 2025
New Self-Service Wheelchair System Enhances Accessibility at University Hospital of Wales
The Health Board have commenced a trial to improve access to wheelchairs for patients and visitors who attend the University Hospital of Wales for outpatient appointments or visiting relatives and...
Read more2nd May 2025
National prioritisation exercise shapes £750,000 funding call to improve communication challenges in women’s health
A targeted Health and Care Research Wales funding call is still open for applications, focussing on six priority research topics around improving communication in women’s health, identified in a recent...
Read more2nd May 2025
Using AI and data analysis to tackle drug-resistant epilepsy – Swansea University and King’s College London secure £1.1 million funding
A new research collaboration between Swansea University and King’s College London has been awarded a prestigious Medical Research Council project grant to improve outcomes for people living with drug-resistant epilepsy....
Read more1st May 2025
How Welsh researchers are leading the fight against cancer
Dr Nicola Williams, National Director of Support and Delivery at Health and Care Research Wales, recently spoke to BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe about some of the amazing cancer research...
Read more1st May 2025
Innovative technology offers hope to pregnant women
Hywel Dda University Health Board has introduced a ground-breaking new technology that promises to transform the experience of pregnant women living with Type 1 diabetes. Women who are already pregnant...
Read more1st May 2025
Safe at Home supports patients to receive urgent care at home
Safe at Home is supporting people across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan to receive urgent care at home when it’s safe to do so, instead of going into hospital....
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New treatment will help MS patients be treated quicker in another UK first
A Pembrokeshire mum has become the first NHS patient in the UK to be treated with a new drug to prevent relapses of multiple sclerosis (MS). The newly approved medication,...
Read more30th April 2025
New vision for mental health in Wales paves the way for same-day support
People who need mental health support will increasingly have access to same-day services, as part of an ambitious plan to further improve care across Wales. The new 10 year mental health...
Read more30th April 2025
Cardiff Healthcare Firm to Fund NHS Stoma Care Support Services
Eakin Healthcare has secured a contract to fund stoma care support services in much of Wales. As part of the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, which acts on behalf of...
Read more29th April 2025
NHS Wales to be strengthened following independent review
A series of changes, recommended by a group of independent experts in a milestone report designed to strengthen the NHS, are being taken forward by the Welsh Government. Health Secretary...
Read more28th April 2025
VInnovate 2025 Funding Call – Wales
What is VInnovate 2025? VInnovate 2025 is a funding model supported by the Vanguard Initiative, which is a collaborative programme supporting industrial modernisation and innovation through industry-led and cross-regional cooperation....
Read more28th April 2025
Health Technology Wales guidance: Permanent implant brachytherapy to treat pancreatic cancer
Health Technology Wales (HTW) has published new guidance on the use of permanent implant brachytherapy devices (PIBD) to treat pancreatic cancer when surgery is not an option (unresectable pancreatic cancer)....
Read more25th April 2025
Over 1,000 participants join study aimed at improving the efficiency of bowel cancer screening
A study aiming to improve the efficiency of bowel cancer screening is over halfway towards its goal of recruiting 2,000 patients in Wales. The study, COLOSPECT, is looking at the...
Read more23rd April 2025
Solar Panel Installation Nears Completion at 6MW Coed Ely Solar Farm
Less than five months after construction officially began at the Coed Ely Solar Farm, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and Vital Energi are celebrating a...
Read more23rd April 2025
Free prescriptions in Wales ‘extended my life’
As Wales marks 18 years as the first UK nation to abolish prescription charges, forty-four-year-old Ryan Perrot who has severe asthma shares how the policy helped change his life. Since...
Read more23rd April 2025
Next generation of researchers are discovering new pathways to target blood cancer
Blood cancer is the fifth-most common cancer in the UK, but its many variations have historically made it notoriously difficult to treat. There are over 100 different types of Acute...
Read more17th April 2025
Health Secretary response to latest NHS Wales performance data: February and March 2025
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Miles, responds to the latest NHS Wales performance data. Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Miles, said: I am very...
Read more17th April 2025
To transform autism research, ask autistic people – Dr Aimee Grant
“Think about autism for a second.” This was how Dr Aimee Grant, opened her powerful TED-style talk at the 2024 Health and Care Research Wales conference. April is Autism Acceptance Month, an...
Read more16th April 2025
Singleton Hospital trial looks to further improve treatment for prostate cancer patients
Researchers at Singleton Hospital in Swansea are preparing to launch a follow-up study to a worldwide trial which revolutionised treatment for prostate cancer patients. The original trial, Stampede, started 20...
Read more15th April 2025
SAIL data reveals link between shingles vaccine and reduced dementia risk
Researchers have discovered compelling evidence for the impact of the shingles vaccine on reducing risk of developing dementia, using data from the world-renowned SAIL databank, which is funded by Health and...
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