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The HEIW pharmacy team will be undertaking a transition programme to meet all the needs of the new Initial Education and Training standards for Pharmacists.

In the autumn of 2020 HEIW wrote to all graduates who we believed were not in employment within NHS Wales with information regarding the Appeals process and the decision by HEIW to place this on hold due to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Education and Improvement Wales are delighted to announce that applications for funding for Healthcare scientists and Support staff employed by NHS Wales to undertake the equivalence process will open on 1 April 2021. This is the third year we have offered this funding to NHS Wales Scientific staff.

Clinical Scientist in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Medical Physics and Engineering department at Swansea Bay UHB.

A group of public service organisations from across Wales which make up the ‘Wales Public Body Equality Partnership’ (WPBEP) have confirmed their Strategic Equality Objectives for 2020 - 2024.

A wide range of people from across Wales have shared their ideas to shape the future mental health workforce. 

Helen Thomas, Assistant Director of Leadership and Succession, HEIW, discusses what it's like to be leading on the Compassionate Leadership and Succession Planning strategy for Wales and the priorities for HEIW's leadership and succession team in 2021.

“We are taking the comments made about the Welsh Language very seriously. We are fully committed to ensuring that we support and grow the Welsh Language in our NHS workforce and are actively embedding it in how we work as an organisation. We understand how important this is for our staff, our learners and patients. We do not support or condone the comments made by the individual in question. We take such matters seriously.

“James Moore was working in HEIW on a secondment contract, following conclusion of our internal discussions his secondment has been terminated and he has returned to his substantive employment with Welsh Ambulance Services Trust (WAST).  As HEIW is not the employer, the termination of the secondment agreement was the most action open to us.”

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) are pleased to announce that this year’s annual Clinical Scientist Trainee (STP) Recruitment Programme is now open.

We are taking the comments made about the Welsh Language very seriously. We are fully committed to ensuring that we support and grow the Welsh Language in our NHS workforce and are actively embedding it in how we work as an organisation. We understand how important this is for our staff, our learners and patients. We do not support or condone the comments made by the individual in question but we cannot comment on internal discussions with an individual employee. We take such matters seriously.

2020 marked a momentous year for optometry within HEIW.  It celebrated the first year of inclusion into the clinical fellowship program, alongside other primary care professions, medical, dental and pharmacy.  To say we were excited for the addition is an understatement.  Two optometrists were granted fellowships to work with HEIW and Welsh Government, on workforce and contract reform projects.

Changes to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) Initial Education and Training Standards for Pharmacists have been welcomed by Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW).

To mark ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) are celebrating the outstanding achievements of the women we have working in science.

A new report has looked at the support available to help NHS staff across Wales maintain their mental health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Working closely with partners across health and social care, Health Education and Improvement Wales is developing a primary and community care education and training framework for NHS Wales.

We are extremely pleased to announce that Raj Nirula, has been appointed as the Lead Associate Dean for SAS doctors in the UK by (COPMeD). Raj is the Associate Dean for Staff and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors and dentists in Health Education and Improvement Wales.

We know that people working in a healthcare setting can sometimes witness or become involved in traumatic incidents, and that even when trained to deal with such incidents, they can still be affected by them.

The second event hosted by the HEIW Simulation team will be held on 27 January 2021, 9.00 to 12.30