When the pandemic struck last year, my main focus for many months was helping to think about what we might do to support people who could no longer access support in the community and who, like myself, were finding pretty much every day a challenge in different ways. One of
Continue readingToday we welcome the launch of the Reducing Restrictive Practice Framework in Wales by Welsh Government. This framework promotes measures and practices that will lead to the reduction of restrictive practices in childcare, education, health and social care settings. What we mean by restrictive practice The Care Council for Wales
Continue readingOver the past year we have witnessed unprecedented demands on health services resulting in people having to get used to different ways to access health care. In many instances, routine work needed postponing and physical access to Primary Care became limited. The impact of these changes for people with learning
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Throughout the course of the pandemic the team in Improvement Cymru have been deployed to support the response within Public Health Wales. During that time we have supported call centres, health protection cells, analytics, operationalisation of population sampling centres, mobile testing units and improvements in laboratory turnarounds. I am sure
Continue reading‘Magic Moments in dementia care services’ is a storytelling approach to learning and development. Nigel Hullah has been working with Improvement Cymru to help shape the project with his own experiences since diagnosis of dementia. Here he tells us what the project has meant to him. All through 2018 and
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We’ve been working in partnership with Improvement Cymru and wider stakeholders to develop the Wales Dementia-Friendly Hospital Charter which will be published later this year. I’m pleased to provide an update on its progress. The aim of the charter is to enable Health Boards to implement dementia-friendly practices. Following our
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