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Healthcare professionals can now access an All Wales Prescribing Indicators Module.

Healthcare professionals can now access a 'Mental Health during COVID-19' online module.

I am an Education Project Manager, currently delivering within the national endoscopy programme action plan.

GPs can now access a range of short continual professional development resources, designed to give the learner bitesize chunks of vital information. 

Rebecca Chamberlain has been awarded the prestigious International Professional Development Association (IPDA) Cymru Howard Tanner Research Prize 2019 for her research into the role of community pharmacy technicians within NHS Wales and the scope they have for role development.

HEIW’s Revalidation Support Unit (RSU) and Digital team have developed a Patient & Colleague 360° Feedback system that is now available to all doctors in Wales, aimed at meeting the requirements of revalidation.

The ‘Gwella’ the leadership portal for all NHS Wales staff has been launched today.  The bi-lingual digital resource is available through any mobile device and provides access to a wide range of compassionate leadership and management resources curated from The King’s Fund, Open University and colleagues across the other UK nations.

A Healthier Wales means changing what we do and how we do things across NHS Wales and Social Care Wales. For the patients and communities we serve, this means we need to increasingly ask “what care do you want and need”?  We need to apply exactly the same questions to our work and workplaces.

Good luck to all, not sure what you next move is? then have a look at the options available within NHS Wales

The Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) pre-registration pharmacy trainees all conduct an audit each year as part of their one year work-based training programme. Usually this is celebrated with an annual poster day where they share their work with the rest of their colleagues and a panel of judges.

“Together for Mental Health” is the Welsh Government’s 10 year cross-governmental strategy to improve mental health and well-being across all ages. Published in October 2012 following significant engagement and formal consultation with stakeholders, the strategy has been supported by a series of detailed delivery plans.

As you may know, this year’s Pride celebrations are moving online, and so are we.

Did you know that the NHS is the largest employer in Wales with over 98,400 employees, and that more than 350 careers options are available?

At Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) Pharmacy we have developed a provisional registration resource and forum section on our website. This is to support provisionally registered pharmacists employed in all pharmacy sectors in Wales and for those living in Wales who are working towards their first sitting of the GPhC registration assessment; between August 2020- July 2021.

This report, by the Pharmacy Deanery within Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), provides the first published data on the community pharmacy workforce in Wales.

HEIW in collaboration with Welsh Government, and the Samaritans have launched a new confidential wellbeing support line for NHS and social care workers in Wales.

We have recently made some changes to the terms and conditions of the NHS bursary scheme agreement to be more favourable to students.