Download (opens in new window) PDF [0.66MB] The Auditor General for Wales has released this paper in the hope that by stimulating debate, it will help to spread good practice, generate new ideas, support beneficial change and so contribute to the good governance of public services in Wales. The paper explores emerging trends and…
One in eight older people are failing to get the care they need, showing the ‘imminent’ danger the social care system is in, a charity has warned today. A new report from Age UK concluded that the UK is living on borrowed time to save the social care system. It also highlights the ‘major burden’…
Cwm Taf University Health Board has worked in partnership with the charity 2 Wish Upon A Star to open a family room for bereaved parents at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant. Rhian Burke founded the charity in 2012 following the sudden loss of her son George. Rhian and her husband Paul found that there…
Cabinet Secretary for Health, Vaughan Gething, visited the A&E department at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant today to look around four new examination / treatment cubicles that will be dedicated to the care of patients with minor injuries i.e. cuts, bites, sprains, fractures and other urgent minor injuries. Kath McGrath, Deputy Chief Operating Officer…
Collective and individual failings lay behind the Welsh Government having to pay £1.25m in compensation to a firm involved in a procurement dispute. A letter to the Welsh Assembly public account committee from permanent secretary Sir Derek Jones said the “fruitless payment” had led to an investigation of the government staff concerned. This had revealed…
Cabinet Secretary for Health, Vaughan Gething visited Llantrisant Leisure Centre to view the back care programme provided by Cwm Taf University Health Board. The back care programme is a course for patients who suffer with chronic low back pain, and consists of four sessions run over a two week period. Claire Ashton, clinical back care…
An author from Mid Glamorgan in South Wales has just released her debut novel. Mabel McCarthy has written Something to Your Advantage. This brilliantly written novel is the story of Virginia Coles, and after discovering her husband’s infidelity, flees to London where she meets farm manager Bill Kirby, the man she falls hopelessly in love with….
