Next week, 80 children’s authors and illustrators will take part in the second annual Pop Up Festival next month – a national schools literature festival that sees books brought to life from 11-22 June. Over the course of the festival, authors and illustrators will visit 15,000 children in classrooms, libraries, museums and galleries across…
The Centre for Towns has found Welsh residents are disadvantaged in at least one aspect of healthcare, no matter where they live. The think tank discovered those living in Wales’ core city – Cardiff – would face the joint longest travels of Britain’s core cities to their nearest GP (1km), pharmacy (0.8km), and dentist (1km)….
An innovative approach to delivering mental health services in Cwm Taf is helping to speed up access to the right services for patients. A ‘same to next day’ assessment service has been introduced as a pilot study in the Cynon Valley and is a radical change to the way patients are referred and assessed for…
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…
A report by Age UK has revealed that older people and their families are struggling to access care at home, following years of budget cuts. The report titled, Behind the Headlines – the battle to get care at home, found that the average spend per adult on social care had fallen by 13 per cent,…
