7th June 2024
Written Statement: 2023-24 pay award offers to junior doctors, SAS doctors and consultants to stop the strikes
First Minister, Vaughan Gething MS Eluned Morgan MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care We have today made a formal pay award offer to each of the three BMA…
7th June 2024
Written Statement: Social Care Workforce Delivery Plan 2024-27
Dawn Bowden MS, Minister for Social Care I am pleased to publish the Social Care Workforce Delivery Plan 2024-27. This builds on the work already begun as part of A Healthier Wales:…
6th June 2024
Written Statement: Donation to the Velindre University NHS Trust Charity
Eluned Morgan MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care During the 2023-24 financial year, Velindre University NHS Trust received £7.35m in income generated from a commercial trial led by…
4th June 2024
Cystic fibrosis research empowers Sophie to conquer Atlantic rowing challenge
A brave cystic fibrosis patient from Haverfordwest who has been under the care of a specialist research team for more than a decade is defying the odds by rowing across…
31st May 2024
Cancer Research UK awards 5 year funding for the Lead Cancer Research Nurse for Wales
Wales is to receive a share of £5.9m to help cancer patients receive ground-breaking new cancer medicines, it was revealed today. The investment by Cancer Research UK will fund a UK-wide network of…
30th May 2024
Life Sciences Plant Will Support Global Drug Development
A multi-million-pound life sciences facility which manufactures organoids is putting Cardiff at the heart of a global first for innovations around drug discovery. Molecular Devices is the only company to…
23rd May 2024
First in Wales Arts and Health Charter launched by Hywel Dda UHB
Hywel Dda University Health Board has officially launched its Arts and Health Charter, a promise to the public to integrate arts into the work of the health board. The Charter is…
22nd May 2024
Welsh researchers in pioneering Virtual Reality study to support people living with anxiety
The research team at Health and Care Research Wales’ Centre for Trials Research, hosted by Cardiff University, has been awarded nearly £250,000 from Innovate UK to research new approaches to help with people’s…
20th May 2024
Health and Care Research Wales Specialty Lead receives Honorary Professorship in Medical Sciences
A Health and Care Research Wales Specialty Lead says he hopes to raise the profile of research into immunotherapies to treat head and neck cancer, after receiving an Honorary Professorship…
17th May 2024
How Welsh researchers are combating the threat posed by resistance to antibiotics
A Health and Care Research Wales researcher has called growing resistance to antibiotics a “major issue” in an exclusive interview with the BBC. Professor Angharad Davies, Specialty Lead for Infection,…
9th May 2024
Bevan Commission Exemplar Programme ‘Achieving Change Together’ (Cohort 9) Call for Applications is now open
The Bevan Commission Exemplar Programme titled‘Achieving Change Together’ (Cohort 9) Call for Applications is now open! This year, the Bevan Commission encourages project applications aligning with the following themes: Supporting…
9th May 2024
Swansea Bay welcomes first overseas midwife
Swansea Bay’s first overseas midwife has been given a warm welcome by her patients and colleagues since arriving at Singleton Hospital. Abigail Peprah (pictured) originally qualified in her home country…
8th May 2024
New plan to reduce deaths caused by infections resistant to antibiotics
Everyone must play their part in preventing one of the world’s biggest killers, Wales’ Chief Medical and Veterinary Officers have said as they launch the next stage of a 20-year…
5th May 2024
Five Welsh midwifery research studies that are leading best practice
This International Day of the Midwife (5 May 2024), we are celebrating the vital role of research midwives across Wales, who spend their days improving midwifery practice and services. Currently,…
3rd May 2024
Founder of internationally renowned research centre hands over the reins
The founding father of an internationally renowned research centre at Morriston Hospital has retired after more than 20 years at the helm. Back in 2003, Professor Adrian Evans established a…
3rd May 2024
Deadline soon for health and wellbeing grant scheme
Funding for projects which contribute to Powys people’s health and wellbeing is available via the Small Health Grants Scheme but the closing date for applications is rapidly approaching. Community groups…
3rd May 2024
Health Secretary congratulates Welsh winners at UK awards
Healthcare professionals from across NHS Wales were awarded for their innovative work, collaboration, and leadership to improve healthcare in Wales and beyond, at the UK’s Advancing Healthcare Awards 2024. Now…
2nd May 2024
Digital System Set to Help NHS Wales Efficiencies
A digital health information and electronic medical record system is set to be rolled out across Wales. InterSystems, a data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical…
2nd May 2024
Business ‘Needs to Play a Key Part in Welsh Healthcare Transformation’
Business leaders have met First Minister Vaughan Gething to address ‘mounting fears for the future of healthcare in Wales’. Think-tank the Bevan Commission convened the cross-sector meeting, which it said…
2nd May 2024
Written Statement: World Health Organisation Event: Reimagining an Economy for Resilient and Healthier Societies that Leave No One Behind
Eluned Morgan MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care I am pleased to update members about my attendance at a recent event in Venice to mark the 20th anniversary of…