Adults are more likely to report mild and moderate side-effects after mixing doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines, a study indicates.

Cardiff and Vale UHB are proud to announce that Len Richards has received a CEO Today United Kingdom Award from CEO Today UK magazine.

A mental health and wellbeing service has seen a 45% increase in the number of people seeking support after lockdown restrictions were eased across the country.

Friday 14 May, 2021 will mark the first ever Genomics Showcase, a free event hosted by Wales Gene Park on behalf of Genomics Partnership Wales as part of the delivery of the Genomics for Precision Medicine Strategy.

We are pleased to say the Vale of Glamorgan Community Cohesion Group is re-starting. The group is about improving community cohesion in the Vale.

TEC Cymru have recently initiated some research on the impacts of home working on people's wellbeing. It's hugely timely, with restrictions easing and the Welsh Government’s long-term aspirations for 30% of the workforce to be remotely working.

The latest bulletin Sylw from the Wales Council of the Blind is available to view.

The Cardiff and Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Partnership will be allocating approx £22,500 in total, to support new and innovative third sector dementia friendly community activities and services for people with dementia, and for their carers, in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

As part of The Fostering Network’s national awareness and recruitment campaign, Barry Island’s Western Shelter and the Hood Road tunnel will be lit in orange and the public are being asked to join in by placing a lamp in their front window on Thursday, May 20.

Adhering to the latest expert information, as a precautionary measure we will immediately implement the change in advice from JCVI and MHRA and offer those under 40 (with no clinical risk factors) who are not yet vaccinated an alternate to AstraZeneca.

Chief Executive Len Richards has today, Monday 10th May, been announced as the new Chief Executive of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

In response to research revealing the challenges that COVID-19 presents people living with dementia, NHS Wales’ Get There Together project has created a series of encouraging videos.

For Stroke Awareness Month, Cardiff and Vale UHB Stroke Unit staff and patients have pledged to run, walk or cycle 7,400 miles in May.

Statement from Richard Roberts, Head of the Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme (VPDP) at Public Health Wales

As part of a change in the governance arrangements for the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board, two new partnerships are being set up: Starting Well and Ageing Well. It is important that there is good Third Sector representation.

The award-winning Hapi project is delighted to announce details of the new health and wellbeing services to be offered in Cardiff and Vale.

The May edition of the Community Steps Directory is now available

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is supporting Plantlife’s No Mow May, a national initiative which aims to protect our pollinators.

This Deaf Awareness Week (3-9 May 2021), we’re supporting the UK Council on Deafness and highlighting how patients and residents of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan are ‘coming through it together’, thanks to the services provided by the Health Board.

The patient experience survey on behalf of Welsh Government is looking to collect experiences of the healthcare services children and young people have received over the past year during the pandemic.