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The TrainWorkLive attraction campaign, which supports recruitment into NHS Wales, has now been running for five years.

I am the new Allied Health Professions Person Centred Rehabilitation Lead with Health Education Improvement Wales (HEIW).

HEIW are proud to announce that they have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, which demonstrates our commitment to support employees who are reservists and veterans.

We’d like to officially welcome Prof. John Gammon as the newest Independent Member of HEIW’s board.

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog, a reflection of my internship at Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW). The aim of this blog is to showcase how the internship has helped me develop as a person and hone my soft skills on my journey towards becoming a future leader of the NHS.

We are pleased to share a suite of newly developed resources to support strategic workforce planning for both Primary Care and wider Healthcare across Wales.

(Alex Maiello – Physician Associate in Hywel Dda)

We are delighted to announce that we will be supporting Hywel Dda General Practice Physician Associates (GP-PAs) as they start on the UK’s first two year Development Pathway. We will be providing key support to the initial cohorts of the programme by enabling access to the Medical Appraisal Revalidation System (MARS) to record and reflect on their progress.

In partnership with Cardiff University we will be offering a Post-registration foundation pharmacist programme to newly registered pharmacists in Wales, starting in September 2022.

If you are a trainee pharmacist or employer organisation with questions about our post-registration foundation pharmacist programme starting in September 2022 come along to one of our drop in Q&A sessions:

The stakeholder event is open to health and social care professionals and related organisations and groups within the health and care sector.

We’d like to officially welcome Jonathan Morgan as the newest Independent Member of HEIW’s board.

Through the Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholarship, our investment in future leaders of the NHS Wales is already proving successful, with participants attracting global attention.

Health Education Improvement Wales (HEIW) in collaboration with BMA Cymru Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and trainee representatives have updated the relocation reimbursement policy for junior doctors and dentists in Wales.

A Welsh-trained surgeon is behind potentially lifesaving new equipment that could change the way heart attacks are treated.

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) and Social Care Wales are working together to develop a workforce plan to realise the Welsh Government's ‘Together for Mental Health delivery plan 2019/2022’. 

The forum is a multi-disciplinary forum comprising of pre-registration health students in Wales that has been in place since 2006. It offers an inclusive environment for pre-registration Healthcare Students in Wales to:

Our new digital toolkit has now been released for practice managers and administrative staff in general practice. The roll out of the development phase of the resources starts now, focusing on progress and not perfection, anyone can access the platform either by mobile, desktop or tablet.