Nearly a million elderly and vulnerable patients are to be given personalised care by their GPs including regular visits from doctors and nurses, the Prime Minister was set to announce today (April 13). More than £400 million is being targeted… read more »

At Care Forum Wales we are always looking for ways to improve membership services.  This year we have updated the Care Forum Wales website and introduced your new benefit discount scheme, Care Forum Extra.  If you haven’t already checked out… read more »

Local Authorities are beginning to announce care home fee levels for 2014-15 – you can see how they compare across Wales by following the link to our public resources page   careforumwales   Not all Local Authorities have set fees yet… read more »

The UK’s biggest care home provider, Four Seasons Health Care (England), has been ordered to pay £170,000 in fines and costs after a vulnerable resident choked to death on fish and chips during an entertainment evening at its premises in… read more »

The deputy minister for social services, Gwenda Thomas, has announced (March 17) a planned increase in the maximum fees people will be asked to pay for non-residential social care from April 2014. The maximum of £50 per week will rise… read more »

We’ve launched a new discount package for Care Forum Members which offers savings on everything from grocery shopping to glasses, travel to treats for members and their families plus discounts on car and home insurance and many other savings. The… read more »

To download a copy of the latest CFW members’ magazine, Fforum, from Care Forum Wales please click one of the links below: English eForum Welsh eForum

The way in which the performance of A&E and ambulance services are monitored and measured is to be overhauled, the Health Minister Mark Drakeford announced today (March 26). The new system of monitoring will begin in April. The move comes… read more »

As well as receiving a monthly round-up of news by email (CFW E-news), members also receive a quarterly newsletter in either printed form or readable as a PDF. You can read your PDF copy of the March edition by clicking… read more »

Gwenda Thomas, the Deputy Minister for Social Services, has said she is committed to reforming how social care services are paid for in Wales. In a statement issued today (March 20) the Minister said that she was progressing her plans… read more »