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  • Minister promotes learning disability awareness

    Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Welsh Government
    A project funded by the Welsh Government to promote learning disability awareness and accessible information has been celebrated in an event in Cardiff Bay.
     

  • New food labelling system given green light

    Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Welsh Government
    People will now find it easier to make healthier choices about the food they eat thanks to a new, consistent front of pack food nutritional label.
     

  • Safeguarding panel appointed

    Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Welsh Government
    Four experts have been appointed to a safeguarding advisory panel to look at how the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill can strengthen adult and child safeguarding and protection arrangements in Wales.
     

  • Emergency Quarters update

    Tuesday, 18 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    A major North Wales hospital development is changing the skyline of the site... for the better.

  • Minister launches All Wales Continence Bundle

    Monday, 17 June 2013, Welsh Government
    The Health Minister Mark Drakeford has applauded the development of a package to improve the dignity of adult patients across Wales.
     

  • NHS Wales staff mark Falls Awareness Week

    Monday, 17 June 2013, 1000 Lives Plus
    NHS Wales staff across the country will be supporting Age UK’s Falls Awareness Week 2013, this week (17-21 June 2013). The aim of the awareness-raising campaign is get people to put their ‘best foot forward’ by keeping their feet healthy to prevent falls in later life.

  • Put your best foot forward for falls week!

    Monday, 17 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    Falls aren’t an inevitable part of getting older - that’s the key message of this year’s Falls Awareness Week.

  • Hospital staff celebrate first anniversary of new-look home

    Friday, 14 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
     
    Hospital staff are celebrating the first anniversary of a major development which changed the way they worked for the better. Ysbyty Glan Clwyd  staff are looking back at their first year of work in the hospital’s redeveloped theatre complex.
     

  • Effective support for carers

    Thursday, 13 June 2013, Welsh Government
    Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas has marked Carers Week by launching the refreshed Carers Strategy for Wales at a conference organised by the Newport Carers Forum.

  • Event highlights role of social care

    Thursday, 13 June 2013, Welsh Government
    The vital work of social care workers in Wales will be highlighted during Social Care Week with an exhibition stand in Y Bont, the public area of the Welsh Government’s Llandudno Junction office.
     

  • New drive to hit cancer target

    Wednesday, 12 June 2013, Welsh Government
    Patients suspected as having cancer should be seen by a consultant within 10 working days, Health Minister Mark Drakeford announced today.

  • Changes to the National Immunisation Programme 2013-14 announced

    Wednesday, 12 June 2013, Welsh Government
    Health Minister Mark Drakeford today announced changes to the Welsh immunisation programme to protect against preventable diseases and infections during a debate on the measles outbreak.

  • 40 per cent rise in doctors in Wales in last decade

    Wednesday, 12 June 2013, Welsh Government
    New figures show the numbers of doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives in Wales increased by up to 40 per cent between 2002 and 2012.
     

  • Surgeon wins ‘BEST' Award for Innovation in Education

    Wednesday, 12 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    Mr Anthony Victor Babu Bathula, an Associate Specialist Surgeon with the Local Health Board, has received Wales Deanery’s the ‘Best Doctor in Wales Award’ for Innovation in Education for the year 2012.
     

  • Delivery Plan for the Critically Ill

    Tuesday, 11 June 2013, Welsh Government
    Plans to ensure people in Wales who are critically ill receive the right care, in the right place and at the right time have been published.
     

  • New legislation to reform NHS financial regime

    Monday, 10 June 2013, Welsh Government
    A new Bill giving NHS organisations greater flexibility to manage their budgets will be introduced in the next Assembly term as part of the Welsh Government’s legislative programme, Health Minister Mark Drakeford announced today (Monday 10 June).
     

  • Listening to patients will help improve care

    Friday, 7 June 2013, 1000 Lives Plus
     A new white paper from 1000 Lives Plus explains how listening to patients and understanding what it feels like to experience care is a key way for NHS Wales can improve its services.

  • Health Board to review infection control management

    Friday, 7 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    A leading expert is to be brought in to review Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s infection control processes, the health board announced today.
     

  • Health Minister marks successes in My Health Online

    Friday, 7 June 2013, Welsh Government
    The Minister for Health and Social Services, Mark Drakeford has seen first-hand the benefits of My Health Online.
     

  • Public presentation of the plans for the proposed Llangollen Health Centre

    Monday, 3 June 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board will be presenting the plans for the proposed new Llangollen Health Centre on Tuesday the 11th of June in the first floor hall of Llangollen Town Hall between 3pm and 6.30pm.

  • Investing in the social care workforce

    Friday, 31 May 2013, Welsh Government
    Gwenda Thomas, Deputy Minister for Social Services, has announced a grant of over £8 million to train social care workers in Wales [30 May].

  • Cancer patients will be asked “How are we doing?”

    Thursday, 30 May 2013, Welsh Government
    Cancer patients in Wales will be given the chance to tell the NHS and the Welsh Government what they think about the services they have received.

  • Photographer’s snaps brings countryside to patient centre

    Wednesday, 29 May 2013, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
    A keen photographer is providing a new topic of conversation for the North Wales Cancer Centre thanks to his love of the countryside.

  • Priorities for NHS announced

    Friday, 24 May 2013, Welsh Government
    The new NHS Delivery Framework, setting out the main priorities for the health service for 2013/14, has been published by NHS Wales Chief Executive David Sissling

  • Minister launches Clinical Research Treatment Unit

    Friday, 24 May 2013, Welsh Government
    A new facility at Velindre Cancer Centre will enable scientists to study the newest cancer drugs.

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