A siren-like alert will be sent to smartphone users across the UK next month to test a new government public warning system. The test is expected to take place in the early evening of 23 April.

GPs, community optometrists, community pharmacy and primary care dental practices across Wales have saved an estimated 44,088 CO2 this year – the equivalent of four round the world flights, or boiling more than seven million litres of water, by taking part in the Greener Primary Care Wales Framework and Award Scheme from Public Health Wales.

Barry Air Target Club was started in June 2012 under the name of LS Haven Air Target Club. Since Covid-19 the Club has been busy upgrading, we have 10 firing points at 10 meters, one can be converted into a six yard Bell Target. This requires shooting a .177 pellet through a 9.5 mm hole in a steel plate to ring a bell behind at six yards, it’s a great challenge!

GVS, in partnership with the Vale of Glamorgan Council, has arranged a Zoom session to explore and discuss two important funding opportunities available to third sector organisations in the Vale.

Public Health Wales has published a new practical tool that details how actively using behavioural science to better understand human behaviour can lead to more effective communication.

A new report published today by Public Health Wales’s First 1000 Days Programme describes how parents, communities and wider society can work together to give children in Wales the best start in life.

While vaccinations are the most effective way to save lives and protect public health worldwide, public hesitancy, driven by misinformation, can reduce the success of vaccination programmes, disease elimination, or eradication, says a new report from Public Health Wales.

If you are on our centralised waiting list for an NHS dentist, and have not yet responded to the text message or letter sent out in January, you will receive a text message from NHS Wales this week.

We are seeing an increase in COVID-19 infections and other respiratory viruses across Cardiff and Vale, including within our hospitals and across community settings.

The Welsh Government has announced key changes to the COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Programme.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is holding a two recruitment events simultaneously on 30 March this year, showcasing roles for nurses, midwives, as well as HCSW (Healthcare Support Workers). The event will be held at the Cochrane Building, University Hospital of Wales.

The healthcare team at HMP Cardiff work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that are involved in providing care to prisoners with a wide range of mental and physical health problems, organising admissions and the discharge of prisoners, and assessing, planning and evaluating care.

"It is essential that unpaid carers are supported to prioritise their own health and well-being alongside caring."

That’s the message from Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan ahead of Young Carers Action Day, and as the Welsh Government’s publishes its first annual report for the Carers Delivery Plan.

Health Minister Eluned Morgan has today announced increased funding to widen access to Wales’ long-Covid services, including for people experiencing other long-term conditions.

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Mae Dangos, y prosiect hyfforddiant ymwybyddiaeth ariannol ar-lein yng Nghymru, wedi cael ei adnewyddu am drydedd flwyddyn gan Lywodraeth Cymru. Eleni mae Dangos yn ymestyn o’i gyrsiau sylfaenol a chanolradd i gynnig mwy o sesiynau pwrpasol:

• Cefnogaeth i blant a phobl ifanc

• Cefnogaeth i bobl hŷn a'r rhai sydd angen gofal 

Dangos, the free online financial awareness training project in Wales, has been renewed for a third year by Welsh Government.  This year Dangos is extending from its basic and intermediate courses to offer more dedicated sessions:

-   Support for children and young people 

- Support for older people and those in need of care 

Applications are open now until Friday, March 24th, 2023.

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