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Tooth decay rates in children in Wales fall, but issues remain
Dental public health experts at Public Health Wales have welcomed the findings from a recent child dental health inspection programme which shows that the proportion of young children in Wales with experience of tooth decay has continued to fall since the start of reporting in 2007/08.
Show your heart some love this February
February is Heart Month and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are celebrating by highlighting ways you can show your heart some love. In Wales, heart problems and circulatory disease are a major cause of ill health and death. According to the British Heart Foundation around 39,000 people in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan live with heart-related diseases.
Breathing Space project
Are you an unpaid carer or do you support someone living with MS? The Breathing Space project provides short breaks for unpaid carers supporting people living with MS. Carers can access the breaks themselves or bring along the person they care for.
Calon Chorus is back with our Spring Term 2024!
Our regular Calon Chorus community singing sessions continue throughout the year in Cardiff. Calon Chorus is open to anyone who has loved and lost someone with dementia.
What3Words Campaign - Vale Coastal Area
What3Words Campaign launched in partnership with the VOG Council Glamorgan Heritage Coast Team, NHS, National Coast Watch Institute & Coast Guard, RNLI and community partners to assist walkers and families out enjoying the Vale coastline
Unaffordable housing risks harming health and well-being in Wales
More needs to be done to make homes affordable, to protect the health and well-being of everyone in Wales. In a new report, Public Health Wales highlights how the cost of living crisis is making homes less affordable for more people and how this is impacting on their health.
Statement regarding purchase of Redlands Surgery building
A spokesperson for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: "The Health Board is committed to securing the future of Redlands Surgery and ensuring access to primary care services within Eastern Vale.
Welsh Government to ban disposable vapes and back plans for raising smoking age
Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing Lynne Neagle has confirmed the Welsh Government will press ahead with plans to ban disposable vapes and support UK Government legislation to increase the smoking age and restrict sales of vapes.
Increased availability of community pharmacy services helping improve access to primary care
Increased availability of community pharmacy services has meant hundreds of thousands of people haven’t needed GP consultations, Health Minister Eluned Morgan has announced.
New St Athan FAN (Friends and Neighbours) Group
New Free Women only FAN (Friends and Neighbours) Group welcomes all women to meet in friendship and talk about their daily lives whatever their background or religion. It is particularly useful for people whose first language is not English. The group meets every Wednesday, 1pm to 2pm at The Gathering Place, Flemingston Rd., St Athan CF62 4JH.
Short Breaks Fund for Unpaid Carers now live
The Programme is open for applications from 26th January 2024 with a deadline for submission of 5pm, 16th February 2024.
Cardiff Third Sector Council (C3SC), working in partnership with The Cardiff and Vale Regional
Families First Networking Event
Date: 7th March 2024, 10am - 2pm
Location: Memo Arts Centre, Gladstone Road, Barry, CF62 8NA.
Public Health Wales voices support for Graduated Driver Licensing
The introduction of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) would save lives in the UK, according to a consultation response by Public Health Wales.
Public Statement: Expressions of Interest Rookwood Hospital
Cardiff & Vale Health Charity, the official charity of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, are working with NWSSP Specialist Estates Services and Property Agents Savills around expressions of interest for the sale of Rookwood Hospital as a whole or in parts.
Whooping cough vaccination urged as cases rise rapidly in Wales
Public health experts in Wales are encouraging all pregnant women and parents of babies and young children to ensure that they have had their Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccinations as cases in Wales show rapid increase in recent weeks.
"My dad was so ill I thought we were saying our final goodbyes. Months later he was walking me down the aisle"
When Ian Hampson was placed in a medically-induced coma at the University Hospital of Wales in October 2022, his heartbroken family feared the worst. The dad-of-six, who has a history of lung problems, was taken to critical care after his chest infection progressed to pneumonia, sepsis and then septic shock which resulted in multi-organ failure.
Help Shape Our Strategic Equality Objectives
Under the Equality Act 2010, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board must develop and deliver a strategic equality plan every 4 years, which outlines our strategic equality objectives.
Chief Optometric Advisor Wales: eye care digest 2023
A yearly update from the Chief Optometric Advisor on eye care services in Wales.
GVS Launches FoodShare Pantry St Athan
Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) is delighted to have launched an expansion of its existing FoodShare project in St Athan. The project, which already runs at the CF61 centre in Llantwit Major every Thursday, will now be running fortnightly at The Gathering Place in St Athan on Wednesdays.