19th June 2024
Continuing Healthcare in Wales: The Key Issues
The NHS in Wales is currently facing unprecedented challenges, with a surge in red (immediately life-threatening) calls to 999, a significant number of patients who are medically fit for discharge...
Read more14th June 2024
Paperless clinic and kits to reduce medicine waste winners at NHS awards
Healthcare professionals have been awarded for their successes in making NHS services more environmentally friendly at the Welsh Sustainability awards 2024. The Chief Nursing Officer’s Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery...
Read more12th June 2024
New funding to help pioneering brain tumour research in Wales
A new brain tumour research fund has been set up to bring together academic and clinical leaders to foster a thriving brain tumour research community in Wales. Dr James Powell,...
Read more10th June 2024
Gwent resident urges people to get checked for diabetes after turning his life around amid Type 2 diabetes diagnosis
There are currently 44,000 people living with diabetes in Gwent and many more people at risk of developing diabetes in the future. Type 1 diabetes often presents rapidly over days...
Read more7th June 2024
Biotech Firm Developing ‘Revolutionary’ Diagnostic Tests
A Cardiff biotech firm is at the forefront of an innovative diagnostic test for multiple sclerosis. Immunoserv is performing clinical validation studies which build on the success it achieved with...
Read more7th 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...
Read more7th 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:...
Read more6th 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...
Read more4th 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...
Read more31st 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...
Read more30th 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...
Read more23rd 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...
Read more22nd 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...
Read more20th 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...
Read more17th 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,...
Read more9th 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...
Read more9th 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...
Read more8th 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...
Read more5th 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,...
Read more3rd 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...
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