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Following a call for research proposals earlier this year, Public Health Wales’ Improvement Cymru directorate has awarded funding to support two research projects that have the potential to deliver improvements and innovation in health and care delivery.

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the NHS Wales Awards again in 2022 after a break since 2019 due to the pandemic.

The Improvement Cymru directorate, Public Health Wales now welcomes requests for research to support the Improvement Cymru strategy 'Improving Quality and Safety'.

Back to Community Life, from Improvement Cymru, supports people who are struggling since the pandemic to leave their home and get back to community life.  These include people with dementia, people previously shielding or people who are vulnerable. 

Our Care Home Cymru team, Public Health Wales, and Welsh Government are proud to launch a new online Resource Platform today for Care Home and Domiciliary Staff.

Today is WHO World Patient Safety Day. At the present time patient safety is gaining perhaps more attention than ever given the need for us to protect patients from the harms of COVID-19.

In celebration of national Learning Disabilities Week, earlier today our Learning Disability Cymru programme team hosted an online meeting of key partners to finalise the launch details of the new Health Profile resource to support people with a learning disability to receive consistent, safe and timely healthcare in Wales.

Many of our staff are currently helping colleagues in Public Health Wales respond to the current Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as a priority. This may affect some of our programmes + events. Please contact your lead for more information if unsure and visit phw.nhs.wales/coronavirus for the latest on the outbreak.

Have you made a change that has transformed the experience and outcomes for people in Wales? The Awards are your opportunity to showcase your work – enter today.

Today we officially relaunch as Improvement Cymru, the all-Wales Improvement service for NHS Wales, developing, embedding and delivering system-wide improvements across health and social care.

The team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s Angelton Clinic have been using improvement techniques to reduce inpatient falls as part of the Safe Care Collaborative.

The next round of Q Exchange, the participatory funding programme with grants of up to £40,000 is now open for submissions.

A project aiming to minimise the time taken to diagnose cancers in Wales has been further expanded to focus on cellular pathology. 

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has introduced Call 4 Concern to its hospitals, after Betsi Cadwaladr UHB successfully brought the service to Wales.

A second group of cancer multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) has joined a project to minimise the time taken to diagnose cancer.

We’re excited to announce the winners of this year’s NHS Wales Awards, celebrating improvement work that has transformed the experience and outcomes for people in Wales.