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“Without a doubt, this - in conjunction with community bases clinics - is the way forward. This will allow us to keep as many services as possible in the community and to have the flexibility in any environment,” added Liana. A pioneering heart care van, a ‘first of its kind’ anywhere in the United Kingdom, has hit the roads of north Wales delivering care closer to home. Improving the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of expectant mothers, infants, children and young people throughout Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Area. "The lab will also be used to implant defibrillators and complex pacemakers further enhancing our independence from English tertiary centre providers." "We will have the capacity to perform all cardiac angiography and angioplasty locally which will be more convenient for patients and relatives and will result in significant cost savings.
Housing and Regeneration Minister, Rebecca Evans and Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care, Huw Irranca-Davies made the announcement during a visit to an Extra Care housing and care scheme being built in Maesteg.
CCTH Clinical Pathway for Wound Management
Jacqueline Breen, from Briton Ferry, is just one patient who has been supported by the virtual ward after recently coming out of hospital. Staff can recommend some patients join the virtual ward so they can be closely monitored to help prevent accidents or a decline in health. Neath Cluster introduced its virtual ward at the beginning of the pandemic, in May 2020, with the service since managing to prevent multiple hospital admissions.
Not only do virtual wards care for people at home, they also help move them out of hospital sooner by arranging the most appropriate care for each individual. “With input from our virtual ward geriatrician, GP lead and representatives from the voluntary sector, we were able to provide wraparound support for the patient and family, easing their concerns. This means that they will be using appropriate PPE which will have an impact on the number of patients the practice is able to safely see each day and therefore there may be some additional delays in accessing care.
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The Secretary of State for Health was granted the power by Parliament in the amendments to the Act, as contained in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act to approve places specifically for medical abortion known as a ‘class of place’. Currently, the administration of both the antiprogestin and the prostaglandin analogue elements of medical abortion have to take place in an approved place as do all surgical procedures. This means that all abortions currently take place in NHS gynaecology wards, day care or outpatient units and private clinics. In the context of abortion care, the last two are particularly applicable to the acute sector, which, together with the independent sector currently provides the vast majority of abortion services ( Fig. 2 ). £2m is going to continue the national roll-out of the Welsh Community Care Information System, a common IT system for health boards and social services which provides a shared record of care, allowing practitioners to coordinate and manage work across organisational boundaries. Included at this stage is a prospectus of investment opportunities, which could be realised over the next decade, to fundamentally improve the way in which health and care services are provided, as well as the environments they are provided from.
They are being provided by funding from the Welsh Government’s Regional Integration Fund and local authorities and health boards’ own resources. The aim of the brand-new van, that has been funded by the North Wales NHS charity, Awyr Las, is to offer a community-based service to facilitate the care of patients, with the aim of preventing them from having to go into hospital. Parents will be provided a leaflet with information regarding the service when a referral has been made for your child to receive nursing support from the Care Closer to Home team.
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“This new contract will enable patients from the area to access orthodontic care closer to home which is something that the health board has been working to achieve for some time. The Welsh Government this week also announced an extra £70m to ensure social care workers in Wales will receive the Real Living Wage. That is part of wider efforts to recruit and retain social care workers and strengthen the sector to help support eh NHS as it faces one of its toughest winters. The changes will begin immediately, with a £100million Transformation Fund to support the implementation of the plan. The funding will be targeted at resources to speed up the process, including the development of new integrated prevention services and activities in the community.
"A second catheter laboratory is a very exciting development for cardiac services in North Wales. It is also the means by which the Board will address long standing challenges, including fragile services, unsustainable workforce and financial challenges, and an aging hospital estate . People with hearing difficulties across North Wales will find it easier to access specialist support in their GP surgery, thanks to investment in a new NHS service. “While we have been awaiting the results, we have had lots of staff from the virtual ward coming to the house. Her father, Lynn Mainwaring, who has dementia, had been suffering falls in recent months and staff from the virtual ward were able to offer their help after he was referred by his GP practice. However, COVID-19 is still in our communities and we need to keep people living and working in care homes as safe as possible.
Sexual health strategic background and drivers for change
An extra 508 beds and community care packages have been confirmed by local health boards and local authorities so far, with many more currently being negotiated. £3m is being invested in the continued delivery of a National Integrated Autism Service for Wales, which will improve support services for children, young people and adults by providing them with lifetime support. The PBC recognises the need to create a digital infrastructure that will enable the health board to connect with patients and service users in all settings, creating a health system ‘without walls’. This would include innovations, such as wearables, more advanced electronic health records, and greater use of technology to simplify processes including admission and discharge. The health board also wants to maximise the social benefit from the way it works and anticipates the proposed investment would bring significant economic benefits for our communities.
We'll bring sick baby care closer to home; WALES Minister's pounds 4m pledge as report finds 'grossly underfunded' service. A ‘virtual ward’ provides wraparound support in the community to people with complex medical and social needs. Technology now allows doctors, nurses, other health care professionals and voluntary services to communicate with each other much more flexibly. They don’t need to be in the same hospital or surgery to regularly meet to review and plan each patient’s care. “This in turn, has a severe knock-on effect for people waiting for operations and creates delays for the ambulance service. We have been working hard with health boards and local authorities for months to make sure we have enough community beds this winter and there is still work going on to secure more beds.
Welsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan and Welsh Local Government Association leader Andrew Morgan have announced more than 500 extra step-down beds and community care packages for Wales this winter, to help people get care closer to home and free up hospital beds. From this, the Department of Health is working towards developing a protocol for provision of early medical abortions within a community medical setting. This will be drafted in accordance with Section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967, which gives the Secretary of State the power to approve a community medical setting as a ‘class of places’ that meets the requirements of the protocols for the provision of EMA in England. This, however, will not address the issue of moving early surgical procedures closer to home. Until the ‘class of place’ issue is resolved, abortion procedures will remain relatively inaccessible to some women. Both medical and surgical early abortion in a community setting is standard practice in other countries.
The plan also commits the Welsh Government to increasing investment in digital technologies and to support and develop the workforce, including unpaid carers and volunteers. The Health Minister, Lesley Griffiths, has announced nearly £3m for a development which will allow heart patients in north Wales to receive care closer to home. The PBC offers hope following the pandemic, that health and care can shift from an illness service with a focus on hospital buildings and intervention, to a service that works across boundaries to prevent ill health or deterioration of health, providing help earlier, and wherever possible closer to home.
Over the past three years, more than 35,000 people have benefited from the APA service in GP practices in which it has been piloted. Once established, APAs will also oversee the delivery of an earwax removal service, supporting the four per cent of the population who suffer from problematic earwax. “I got in touch with Dr Burge-Jones who mentioned the virtual ward and asked if I would like to try it and I said yes. “We try to prevent people going into hospital and help them keep as healthy and well as we can at home. “The co-ordination of the team and the support involved is essential and part of my role is to feed back and be a point of contact for the family should they have concerns.
In many cases, follow-up care can also be provided in community settings and the patient referred back to her GP with a management plan, thereby improving both conversion rates from secondary care outpatient clinics to community care and new patient to follow-up ratios. Examples of care pathways exist, which can be adopted and adapted and robust clinical governance will ensure high standards of care. A diagrammatic representation of a local abortion-care pathway is illustrated in Diagram 1 .
Care home visiting: guidance for visitors
You must let the care home know as soon as possible that you have developed symptoms, and when you receive the result of your test. If you have tested positive in the last 10 days, you should comply with the guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection. You should avoid meeting anyone who is at higher risk from COVID-19 for at least 10 days. Residents who live in SY and SA48 postcodes areas will now be able to receive their treatment at My Dentist in Lampeter rather than travelling to Carmarthen. Following an appeal to the public for donations toward the project, Awyr Las received generous contributions, including a sum of £1,000 from the charity Teddies for Loving Care which are a part of the North Wales Freemasons Charity. “My husband suggested that our jobs would be made much easier if we had a van that could hold all the necessary equipment that we needed to assess the patient."
We aim to provide holistic, patient-centred, high quality care through rapid assessment; multidisciplinary team involvement and effective partnership working between GPs and other primary care professionals; hospital staff, social care workers and our third sector colleagues. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee undertook to review the scientific, medical and social changes in relation to abortion that have taken place since 1967 to inform Members of Parliament when considering options for changes in the law when reviewing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act in 2008. Consideration was given to where abortions could be carried out with a view to enabling a woman’s home to be considered appropriate for the administration of the second stage of medical abortion. This is the first time Welsh Government has set out a shared plan for health and social care. The aim is to see a shift from healthcare which focuses on treating people when they become unwell, to one that provides services which support people to stay well, lead healthier lifestyles and live independently for as long as possible. Of significance is the impact on training, both medical and nursing, of shifting out of contracts with NHS hospitals to community providers and the independent sector.
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