Funding Opportunity: NHS England has announced the third round of the NHS Cancer Programme Innovation Open Call. Applications are invited for innovations or new approaches that will detect cancers earlier and increase the proportion diagnosed at stage one …
31st January 2024 Wales’ most senior healthcare scientist has taken on a new role to help Wales become a world leader in cancer outcomes. Dr Rob Orford, who has been Chief Scientific Adviser for Health for Wales since 2017, will become chief executive …
An award-winning North Wales manufacturer of prosthetic leg covers is on track to hit £1 million in revenue by 2026 thanks to an ambitious export strategy supported by the Welsh Government. With a number of distribution deals secured and several more in …
31st January 2024 A survey conducted by the Wales Centre for Primary and Emergency Care Research (PRIME), part of the Health and Care Research Wales funded community, has revealed that people with higher levels of education have higher levels of …
29th January 2024 An innovative tech firm developing the ‘holy grail’ in diabetes monitoring has the power to drastically transform the lives of people living with the condition, according to a member of the Welsh parliament. Natasha Asghar MS has shared …
25th January 2024 A common misconception of work-based learning and apprenticeships is that they can only be undertaken by people coming into a role for the first time. There is also the myth that apprenticeships are only available in certain manual …
24th January 2024 Almost 200 first-time mums have volunteered for a research study into whether extra support helps them feed their babies in a way that works for them. ABA-feed, a UK-wide study, is being led by a team of specialist midwives at Swansea Bay …
18th January 2024 A clear path ahead has been set out for the development of new and robust regulations for medical devices in the UK. The new regulations will put patient safety first and help to ensure that patients continue to have access without delay …
16th January 2024 With icy temperatures spreading across the UK, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has urged Gwent residents to check in on vulnerable members of the community to ensure they are safe and well – and has warned that this could even save …
17th January 2024 TrakCel Consultancy Services will leverage company’s experience to help early-stage developers reduce inefficiencies and enable flexible growth Expertise based on 12 years of helping develop and manage processes for more than 15 therapy …
17th January 2024 A BMA survey of over 900 doctors working in the NHS in Wales has revealed the scale of the profession’s concerns over the use of Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) in the Welsh health service – with 80% of those …
12th January 2024 NHS Wales, the BMA and the Welsh Government are working together to ensure patient safety is protected during next week’s junior doctors’ strike, Health Minister Eluned Morgan has said. Junior doctors will take strike action for three …
Welsh patients are playing a major role in the way that bowel cancer is diagnosed, thanks to a leading research study which aims to improve detection and diagnostics while avoiding invasive procedures like colonoscopies. Professor Dean Harris, consultant …
9th January 2024 The Health Research Authority (HRA) has launched updates to the commercial model agreements, removal of the standalone data processing agreements and new non-commercial hub and spoke agreement. Updates to commercial model agreements The …
7th January 2024 Researchers funded by Health and Care Research Wales are investigating patterns and trends associated with ethnic and religious inequalities in children’s social welfare in Wales, in a bid to better understand the relationship between …
5th January 2024 With the launch of popular new BBC One drama ‘Men up,’ which explores the lives of five Welshmen involved in one of the world’s first medical trials for Viagra, Health and Care Research Wales, which oversees all research across the country …
3rd January 2024 A Speech and Language Therapist at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has combined her passion for music with language therapy to jointly create the first-ever inpatient choir in Wales to help post-stroke patients overcome their …
13th December 2023 Looking back at how our “Discover your Role” action plan has advanced public involvement with health and Care Research Wales With the launch of Research Matters, Health and Care Research Wales’ ambitious and wide-reaching three-year plan …
13th December 2023 Research funded by Health and Care Research Wales has shown that Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) families caring for children with life-limiting conditions face barriers accessing formal services, due to incorrect assumptions made by …
11th December 2023 This week marks the second anniversary of the groundbreaking PANORAMIC trial, a UK-wide clinical study to find new antiviral treatments for COVID-19 and reduce the need for hospital admissions. Almost 1,800 Welsh participants have been …
