News

12/05/2025
Empowering nurses, strengthening Wales: celebrating International Nurses Day 2025: This year’s International Nurses Day theme, “Our Nurses. Our Future. Caring for Nurses Strengthens Economies,” reminds us that investing in the nursing workforce is not just a moral imperative – it’s a strategic one.

08/05/2025
New Wales-wide guidance to improve psychological support for people with a learning disability: The guidance addresses the significant differences in the way that psychological distress presents in people with a learning disability, and the way that psychological interventions need to be delivered.

08/05/2025
Teams across NHS tackle hospital deconditioning as part of new partnership: More than 30 teams across the NHS are taking steps to keep patients from deconditioning when they’re in hospital as part of a partnership between the NHS Wales Executive and health boards and trusts.

08/05/2025
A national call to action: We need to keep preventing avoidable harm to our patients: Dr Siobhan Lewis, Consultant Geriatrician, on how we can prevent "deconditioning" in patients.

08/05/2025
New Quality Management System Hub Introduced: The NHS Wales Executive has introduced a new resource to support the development of Quality Management Systems (QMS) across NHS Wales.

07/05/2025
What is a Quality Management System and why are we being asked to manage quality in healthcare in this way?: The Duty of Quality, published by Welsh Government, recommends that healthcare systems should operate within a Quality Management System (QMS) to deliver higher quality services.

06/05/2025

Safe Care Partnership Enters New Phase

A new phase of the Safe Care Partnership is underway, providing a revitalised mechanism for achieving key quality and safety priorities across NHS Wales.

The partnership’s new phase will bring together partners and key stakeholders to collectively achieve national quality and safety priorities determined by health boards and trusts, the NHS Wales Executive and Welsh Government.