Carers Wales is pleased to announce that the charity has been awarded £249,831 for the next 3 years by the Big Lottery Fund. This grant is to enable Carers Wales increase capacity to connect people, organisations and professionals together to better support carers across Wales. To achieve this, the award will be used to help…
Phase 2 implementation of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 – Workforce aspects – covers the requirement for providers of domiciliary services to distinguish between travel time and care time and to provide domiciliary care staff with an alternative to zero-hours contracts. The consultation also seeks views on opening the register of social…
The pilot of 111 GP OOH (out-of-hours) services in Wales is benefiting from lessons learned in England, doctors leaders have said. The service, which differs from other UK models by having a greater proportion of clinical staff within it, was launched as a pilot in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board area in October…
The Cwm Taf Public Services Board (PSB) has just launched a new bilingual website which provides a single point of access to information about the areas of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. The Cwm Taf Public Services Board is a collection of public bodies, including the health board, working together to improve the well-being…
PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) ACT 2005 Notice pursuant to Section 17(3) of the above Act. The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has investigated a complaint and found maladministration/ service failure by Cwm Taf University Health Board and has sent a report on the results of his investigation to the Health Board. The complaint related to…
