Trainee cardiothoracic surgeon, Christopher Roche has recently won the Ronald Edwards Medal for Best Scientific Oral Presentation for his work on 3D bioprinted hydrogel patches containing cardiac spheroids, used to recover heart function post myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Here at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, we take your safety and security seriously. That’s why we’re supporting Counter Terrorism Policing’s campaign to encourage everyone to help keep each other safe this winter.

Colleagues from our Integrated Children’s Community Nursing Service were delighted to receive more than 50 homemade blankets from local group Cwtchy Quilts.

Running from 27 November to 11 December, the Use Your Welsh campaign encourages people across Cardiff and the Vale to use their Welsh in any setting that they can and are able to.

The Welsh Government has responded to the latest NHS Performance data published today (November 23rd).

Thursday – 14th December 2023 Online via Teams 11.30 am – 12.30 pm. Join us for a talk on fatigue and ways to help manage it. There will be an opportunity for questions.

Funding to support services and activities that will make a huge difference to local families and individuals facing crisis and hardship due to the cost of living crisis.

Eisiau gwirfoddoli ond ddim yn siŵr ble i ddechrau? Gall Gwirfoddoli Cymru eich cysylltu chi â’r mudiadau sydd eich angen.
Mae Gwirfoddoli Cymru am ddim i bawb ei defnyddio, ac mae cannoedd o fudiadau eisoes yn ei defnyddio i hysbysebu eu cyfleoedd gwirfoddoli, a gallai cofrestru ddim bod yn haws.

The new and improved Volunteering Wales website is a simple, effective and completely free way for organisations to recruit and manage volunteers. Managed by TSSW (Third Sector Support Wales), Volunteering Wales links volunteers with the voluntary organisations that need them, and it couldn’t be simpler to take advantage of it.

The Vale Family Information Service which houses The Index and The Childcare Offer are working towards their Families First Quality Award. We've been working very hard to ensure that our service is meeting a number of set standards and meeting the expectations to demonstrate excellence in the work that we do.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are looking at the future of Cataract Services in South East Wales.

The aim of the Marine Conservation Social Fund is to support socially beneficial marine conservation approaches and solutions.

We are holding a series of short online ‘drop in’ sessions which we’re calling The Empower Hour for youth workers and youth support workers over the next few weeks to discuss some aspects of our proposals to strengthen the legislative framework for youth work.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is currently running its annual Santa’s Cause campaign. Christmas should be a time of happiness and celebration. Sadly, for many families in the Vale of Glamorgan it can be one of great stress, anxiety, and sadness.

Our Me Time sessions are a series of online activities to support your wellbeing, run by Carers Wales but open to carers across the UK.   

Organisations can apply for a maximum of £2,500 to be spent by 31st March 2024. The deadline for applications to be submitted is Monday 11th December 2023.  

For December and The New Year’s Calendar of online sessions please click here.

29th Nov - Young people & epilepsy: Top tips to manage anxiety session

The QuickChange project pilot won the UKPHR Improving Public Health Practice to Reduce Health Inequalities award in October and the judges highlighted that this was a well-planned project, with good partnership working demonstrated throughout.

Children and young people in Wales who rely on technology to communicate now have access to young Welsh-accented voices and Welsh language versions, the Deputy Minister for Social Services, Julie Morgan, has announced.