My Home Life Cymru is running a series of three free events for care home managers in June to showcase the successful Age Cymru Burdett Trust Grant project. The events will give care homes the opportunity to see how the… read more »
Care Forum Wales’s group lead on dementia, Stephen Ford, is offering members the chance to attend one of two free dementia awareness training seminars in May. The seminars will include a mixture of information, myth-busting and role-play activities as well… read more »
The proposal by an independent review for the NHS in Wales to create a single body to oversee workforce planning and the commissioning of training and education places has been welcomed. Such a body would also oversee commissioning of training… read more »
Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford today (April 2) said he wants health boards to work towards a 50% dementia diagnosis rate by 2016. In addition, Mr Drakeford announced that residential and nursing homes will be provided with additional… read more »
A new £1m to plan to recruit new primary care support workers to help people diagnosed with dementia has been unveiled as part of a new Welsh Government drive to tackle the disease. Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford… read more »
The Welsh Government’s strategic framework for the Welsh language in health and social care, More Than Just Words, requires care providers to make sure they are actively able to offer Welsh language care services to the same standard as English… read more »
Health Minister Mark Drakeford has placed a new emphasis on the rights of care home residents to have primary care ‘at least’ as good as those living in their own homes.Giving the Welsh Government’s response to the Older People’s Commissioners… read more »
The number of training places for student healthcare professionals is set to increase by 16 per cent over the next year (2015-16) in Wales, the Welsh Government has announced today (February 11). The government said it would spend £80m to… read more »
The Welsh Government has launched a new strategy to raise the ambitions and educational attainment of Wales’ nearly 6,000 looked-after children today (February 3). Launched jointly by Education Minister, Huw Lewis, and Health and Social Services Minister, Mark Drakeford, the… read more »
Care home bosses back calls for urgent reforms Care home bosses in Wales have backed a call for urgent reforms of the way services are commissioned and paid for. A review into the quality of life and care of older… read more »