Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Sarah Murphy, has stressed the importance of mental health in the workplace during a visit to an employer leading the way with supporting their employees.

Meeting on a Tuesday every fortnight between 11.00am - 12.30pm in the Cardiff Rugby Clubhouse, this sports-related activity group gives the opportunity for people living with dementia and their caregivers to come together socially in a safe environment to reminisce about their passion for sports and take part in activities with others who have similar diagnoses.       

Every Wednesday 6th November to 11th December 2024, Online 2-3pm

The Recovery and Wellbeing College provide a range of free courses on a range of mental health and wellbeing topics for those with lived experience of mental health challenges, service users, carers and staff.

To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9th-15th October), the Patient Experience Team have set up memorial trees at both University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital of Llandough. 

In 2019, Martyn was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Having been given a life expectancy of 1-2 years, he knew the only way to survive was to receive a stem cell transplant.

Rhian Greenslade, the WellChild Discharge Liaison Nurse for Children with Complex Health Needs at the Noah’s Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, has been named as a winner in the prestigious national 2024 WellChild Awards.

Thousands more people will automatically receive at-home bowel screening tests to help save more lives.

Can you help us to expand our childcare and holiday/respite provision for children with additional learning needs? Complete the Survey and enter our competition for a chance to win a Mobile phone, free calls and data for a year.

First published in March 2016, the purpose of the Public Health Outcomes Framework is to help understand the impact which individual behaviours, public services, programmes and policies are having on health and wellbeing in Wales.  

Flu can be life threatening for people with certain health conditions. That’s why Public health experts in Wales are encouraging those who are clinically at risk to ensure they get vaccinated against the flu as well as COVID-19 this autumn. It will help protect them from getting secondary infections.

Cancer incidence in Wales is showing signs of recovery to pre-pandemic levels of detection, with notable improvements in the detection rates for bowel and female breast cancers between 2020 and 2021. 

Launching today (25^th September 2024), Public Health Wales has published a new Primary Care Clusters Dashboard, which includes a range of indicators about the 64 primary care clusters in Wales, to help them to plan and inform their priorities and address any inequalities within their clusters. 

New analysis from Public Health Wales shows that were an average of 3,845 deaths in Wales in 2022 were due to smoking in Wales every year between 2020 and 2022: more than one in ten of all deaths amongst those over 35.  

As the start of the new academic year rapidly approaches, Public Health Wales strongly encourages both new and returning university students to ensure they are up to date with all their childhood vaccinations.

In the Spotlight this month is Dr Jomol Joseph. Jomol is a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. 

On Tuesday 1^st October we celebrated ‘International Day of Older People’; a global campaign endorsed by the United Nations to raise awareness of the valuable societal contribution older people make.

There can be no greater gift than the gift of life through organ donation and when a loved one is unwell, you can feel helpless. Over a period of 30 years, both Mary and Oliver Hando had the opportunity to donate one of their kidneys and save their son and father’s life twice.

Did you know, approximately 55% of patients with cancer do not present with a ‘red flag’ however often experience vague symptoms such as unintentional weight loss, loss of appetite, fatigue, unexplained abdomen or back pain, nausea, shortness of breath and/or unexpected abnormal blood test results.

World Pharmacist Day is celebrated every year on 25 September and this year’s theme is ‘meeting global healthcare needs’. There are many pharmacist roles across the Health Board and their expertise helps optimise medication use, prevent harmful drug interactions and improve patient outcomes — supporting the health and wellbeing of our communities.