For the sessions available in October 2024 & November 2024 please click here.

Wednesday 9th October 2024

Online via Teams 11.30am - 12.30pm

Sesiwn Wybodaeth: Therapi Llaw, Dydd Mercher – Hydref 9 2024 - Ar-lein dros Teams 11.30 yb – 12.30 yp.

FREE Information Session: Hand Therapy on Wednesday 9th October 2024 Online via Teams 11.30am - 12.30pm

Carers Wales will be hosting a Workplace Champion Recruitment session on Thursday 7th November 2024 at 12pm. 

If your organisation has the facilities and is able to light up a building in blue on 12 October, Cymru Versus Arthritis would be very grateful if the organisation could share a picture of the building lit up in blue from its social media account on the day with the suggested wording below.

Last week Cardiff and Vale UHB welcomed the new intake of students through the Project SEARCH pre-employment programme.  Nine students have joined the health board - five full time and four part time - who will be working in a range of areas across the health board over the next year to gain skills and experience. 

This is a new fortnightly sports-related activity group for people living with dementia and their caregivers at Cardiff Rugby Club. Come along and enjoy fun activities and meet new friends. (Light refreshments included)

My name is Matthew Stevens, and I am a Trussell Trust campaign coordinator (based in Taff Ely Foodbank but working with foodbanks and communities across RCT, Bridgend, and the Vale of Glamorgan). I am working on a campaign created by Trussell Trust and Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Guarantee our Essentials - which seeks to encourage the government to reform universal credit in a way that stops it from forcing people from having to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families.

Diagnostic errors can be delayed, missed or incorrect and happen at every stage of the diagnostic process in all healthcare settings. 

Thank you to everyone who attended the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 11^th September 2024.

‘In the Spotlight’ this month is Holly SanMiguel. Holly first experienced Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital as a patient when her son was born with a large ventricular septal defect, then served as a volunteer, before becoming a Children's Health Care Support Worker in the Paediatric Emergency Unit.

The Welsh Government is launching a national advice service aimed at supporting all those affected by suicide, and new guidance for agencies and organisations.

Rachel Day was described by her parents as a “truly unique character” who would light up a room with her beauty, humour and infectious personality.

RSV causes between 400-600 deaths in older adults and over 1,000 hospital admissions in young babies in Wales every year. The new RSV vaccination programme launched today (2 September 2024) will provide protection against the most common childhood respiratory infection for the first time in Wales. 

Annual General Meeting of the Public Health Wales Board will be held on Thursday 26 September 1.30pm.

In partnership with Pumping Marvellous | The UK's Heart Failure Charity, Cardiff and Vale Heart failure team will be at Cardiff City football stadium on 19th September,  offering walk-in heart health checks for anyone over the age of 40 without a pre-existing diagnosis of heart failure.

RSV causes between 400 and 600 deaths in older adults and over 1,000 hospital admissions in young babies in Wales every year. The new RSV vaccination programme launched today (2 September, 2024) will provide protection against the most common childhood respiratory infection for the first time in Wales.  

Health Secretary Mark Drakeford has today confirmed £7.7m to upgrade the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery as it marks its 30th anniversary.

Activities for September – December 2024.  Dementia Support, CrISP, Live Well with Dementia, Activities and Group Services.