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Health and Social Services News: 02/07/2025

by martyn jones
written by martyn jones

2 July 2025

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999 call changes designed to save lives

The way the Welsh Ambulance Service deals with the most serious 999 calls is changing from 1 July 2025.

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‘Transformative’ project keeping families together in West Wales

Vulnerable families in West Wales are receiving
crucial support through the Fostering Network’s
Step-Up Step-Down project, helping children remain with their parents.

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National Office for Care and Support: annual report 2024 to 2025

The Chief Social Care Officer is pleased to share the National Office for Care and Support’s first annual report has been published. This outlines progress which has been made in the National Office for Care and Support’s first year, with a look ahead to upcoming work.This programme aims to transform planned care services, significantly reduce waiting lists, enhance patient outcomes, and deliver better value throughout Wales.

Adopt Spread and Embed Group

Bevan Commission launches national programme to Adopt, Spread and Embed healthcare innovations across Wales

The Bevan Commission, supported by the Welsh Government, have announced the launch of its second “Adopt, Spread & Embed” programme. Building on the success of the initial programme trialled in 2020, the initiative is designed to take proven, locally developed healthcare innovations and systematically roll them out across NHS Wales.

BETTER HEALTH IN YOUR LOCAL AREA

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Mental health professionals to become Swansea Bay’s first Approved Clinicians

Two mental health professionals are on course to become the health board’s first Multiprofessional Approved Clinicians.

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Families struggling with bereavement offered free counselling for the first time

Families struggling to cope with bereavement are being offered free counselling for the first time through a specialist Swansea Bay team.

Matt James, Patient Experience and Community Involvement Coordinator

New tool helps ambulance crews better support patients with additional needs

The Welsh Ambulance Service has introduced a new tool to identify and better support people with additional needs. The digital system that crews use to capture a patient’s medical information now has a ‘Needs’ tab which prompts them to ask whether the patient has a learning disability, is autistic or neurodivergent

ORAL STATEMENTS

Children’s Oral Health

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

New Ambulance Performance Framework and National Handover Taskforce

A National Lung Screening Programme for Wales

Transforming Neurodivergence Services

Eligibility for autumn 2025 and spring 2026 COVID-19 vaccination programmes

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