Wednesday 30th November, 10am - 1pm, Barry Jobcentre, 9 Holton Road, Barry, CF63 4HA.

Sense are trialling a Street Dance session in partnership with UDOIT Dance for anyone aged 5-16 years old with disabilities. The free Children’s Inclusive Street session is on Thursday 16:15pm - 17:15pm at STAR Hub, Muirton Road, Cardiff, CF24 2SJ.

Easier and faster access to mental health and well-being support, and help on energy, housing and food costs is urgently needed to protect health and save lives, according to Public Health Wales.

The 2022 annual data update from the Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service (CARIS) for Wales has been published by Public Health Wales.

Employers paying staff a real living wage or above can protect and support good health and wellbeing for both the individual and society as a whole, experts at Public Health Wales have said.

Joint letter to UK government. The UK government has been urged to increase the amount of funding available for NHS pay. Ahead of the Autumn statement, Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and Welsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan have written to UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay to ask for additional funding to help avert strike action this winter in the NHS.

If you are looking for mental health organisations or resources in Cardiff and the Vale we have links and information in two cavamh directories

Learning from the pandemic to make a better future

16 November - Newport

24 November - Llandudno Junction

Why do certain polices, services or communications just seem to ‘work’, improving or protecting people’s health and wellbeing, while others fade, or worse never start to shine? This question confronts practitioners and policy makers on an almost daily basis.

Comedian Adam Kay joined patients and staff to celebrate the award-winning South Wales Neuroendocrine Cancer Service and support the Neuroendocrine Cancer Fund.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has launched its Warm Welcome – Croeso Cynnes for Autumn and Winter 2022/23. As part of the Council’s work to support citizens during the cost-of-living crisis, the scheme opens up locations across the Vale to create a network of community spaces.

Please click the link to see the latest bulletin from the Wales Council of the Blind.

Info Session: Osteoarthritis

Wednesday 14th December

Online via Teams 11am-12pm

Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say.

Researchers have discovered a hormone which could help predict whether men will develop certain diseases in later life.

The Minister for Health and Social Services is seeking to appoint a new Vice-Chairperson (Non-Executive Director), to join the Public Health Wales Board. Deadline for Applications: 14 November 2022. Interview date: 7 December 2022.

Information about the Falls Prevention in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, services and resources

The Vale Public Services Board (PSB) is consulting on its second Well-being Plan which will be published in May 2023. The new Well-being Plan sets out three new Well-being Objectives and the priority areas that the PSB will be focusing on over the coming years. We want to know what you think of our new Plan which has been informed by the Well-being Assessment, A View of the Vale of Glamorgan – An Assessment of Current and Future Well-being published earlier this year and by engagement over the summer.

Our Health Board continues to face extreme pressures across services which includes maternity. In July, the Health Board unfortunately had to make the difficult decision to suspend home birthing services until October 2022 to alleviate workforce pressures in hospital midwifery settings. Home birthing services remain temporarily suspended, but the team are committed to doing their best to re-establish a home birthing service as soon as possible.