Wales needs to end its dependency on hospitals and embrace a preventative, primary and community care-led NHS which is integrated with social care, Welsh Government Ministers said today (June 3). Speaking during a debate in the Assembly, health minister Mark… read more »
CFW is keeping up the pressure on local authorities to set their fees for care providers for 2014-15. While our work continues, some local authorities have now set fees – the table below shows which have done so to date…. read more »
Working hard to represent members’ interests In the coming weeks we’ll be attending the following meetings to represent CFW members’ views… Meetings for Mary Wimbury, Melanie Minty, Mike Kemp, Alex Kelleher, Brian West June June 2 Assessment and care planning… read more »
Wales Audit Office conducts survey of experiences of NHS Wales waiting times The Wales Audit Office is undertaking a survey to guage patients’ and relatives’ experiences of waiting times in the NHS in Wales. The study is aimed at finding… read more »
Details of projects that have received funding from a £50m Welsh Government investment in services for the frail elderly have been announced by deputy minister for social services, Gwenda Thomas. The Intermediate Care Fund aims to ease pressure on the… read more »
Care Forum Wales has responded on behalf of members to a consultation by the Welsh Government on balancing the responsibility for skills investment: proposals for co-investment in post-19 adult skills delivery. The consultation closed on May 16. Some of our… read more »
Dr Andrew Goodall has been appointed as the Welsh Government’s new Director General for Health and Social Services and Chief Executive of NHS Wales, the Permanent Secretary, Sir Derek Jones announced today (May 16). During his 23 years in the… read more »
The care of older people in all major hospitals in Wales will be inspected following the publication of a damning report into care provided by a South Wales health board, Health Minister Mark Drakeford has said today (May 13). Prof… read more »
Social Services Minister Gwenda Thomas has said that the promised transformation of social services following the newly-passed Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act will take effect from April 2016. Ms Thomas was speaking at the North Wales Social Care in… read more »
A social services report on the abuse of a 73-year-old woman resident in a Powys care home is due out today. Veronica Teal, a resident in the Bethshan Nursing Home in Newtown, Powys since November 2013, was seen being verbally… read more »