The Care Forum Wales AGM and the speech by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s John Kennedy, made the news in July. Pictured below is a press cutting from the Daily Post in North Wales.

CFW members are being encouraged to use a new DVD from the Care Council for Wales which has been developed as an induction into the workplace for social care workers in Wales. If carried out properly the Care Council says… read more »

Welcome to new CFW members Grant Mullock, pictured, our membership account manager, reports that more new members joined the CFW fold in July. The new members are: The Care Management Group, Caerphilly – Care is delivered to a number of… read more »

The director of the Royal College of Nursing Wales has said that not enough nurses are being trained to meet healthcare needs in Wales. The call by Tina Donnelly came after Welsh Government figures, revealed after a Freedom of Information… read more »

Health Minister Mark Drakeford has said he is ‘encouraged’ at the way an innovative project in Monmouthshire is seeing those with ‘complex mental health needs’ be cared for at home. Professor Drakeford today (July 29) visited the Raglan Project, linked… read more »

BBC News today reported that data from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly suggests its solanezumab drug can cut the rate of the dementia’s progression by about a third in early stage patients. It is the first time that a drug has… read more »

Care Forum Wales’ chair, Mario Kreft, has called for a “fundamental change of culture” in the wake of damning review into alleged abuse at six care homes, saying the review had highlighted “abhorrent” cases of neglect that must never be… read more »

Welcome to new CFW members Grant Mullock, pictured, our membership account manager, reports that six new members joined the CFW fold in June. They are: Deluxe Homecare Ltd – a domiciliary Care provider in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot… read more »

CFW nursing home members will by now have received from their Health Board notification of ‘interim’ rates for Funded Nursing Care at £140.59 backdated for 2014/5, and £140.90 for 2015/16*. They are said to be ‘interim’ because the Health Boards… read more »

A survey of GPs by the Alzheimer’s Society has revealed that GPs think support for people diagnosed with dementia is patchy, leaving family and friends to create a support network where services are inadequate. The survey of 1,000 GPs showed… read more »