Directors and senior managers of provider organisations delivering health, social care and well0being services in Wales are being urged to attend a Social Services Improvement Agency (SSIA) and Welsh Government workshop on market facilitation on March 12. The aim of… read more »
Residential Care Review: expect unannounced visits from March The Older People’s Commissioner is to begin making the first of 100 visits to residential care homes across Wales’ 22 local authorities in the first week of March as part of her… read more »
We’re here to share members’ views CFW policy officers Mary Wimbury and Melanie Minty attend a range of meetings with our partners every month. If you’d like to feed your views into any of the meetings below please get in touch. February… read more »
Plans to centralise key services at a reduced number of south Wales hospitals which will affect patients across the whole of South Wales and South Powys face uncertainty after one health board rejected a key recommendation. Cwm Taf Health Board… read more »
Health boards in South Wales are meeting today to discuss plans for reorganising key services and locating them at five hospitals across the region. The controversial plans would see consultant-led maternity and neonatal care, inpatient children’s services and emergency medicine… read more »
CFW members interested in keeping up with news from the Learning Disability Implementation Advisory Group can access the group’s 2013 winter newsletter in electronic form here See the LDIAG website for more information on its activities. The new Learning Disability Advisory… read more »
The UK Homecare Association (UKHCA) says most councils in England are paying below the recommended minimum price for homecare services of £15.19 per hour. A Freedom of Information request by the UKHCA – which represents independent, voluntary, statutory and not-for-profit… read more »
The number of older people in the 90+ age group using the amubalance service to get to hospital since 2009-2010 has risen by 81% according to new figures. Analysis by the Labour party showed that 300,370 people over the age… read more »
The appointed auditor for Wales has criticised Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire councils over unlawful payments to chief executives in two separate reports published today (January 30). Anthony Barrett’s reports show that Pembrokeshire’s Bryn Parry Jones and Carmarthenshire’s Mark James had been given… read more »
The Alzheimer’s Society is launching its successful Dementia Friends initiative in Wales. The scheme has already been set up in England and is set for launch in Wales at an event at the Senedd on February 19. The Dementia Friends… read more »