Health and Social Care

The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (Wales) 2015 requires Welsh Government Ministers to set National Indicators to measure progress towards the seven national well-being goals, shown...

The ‘second wave’ of Welsh Government consultation on its National Milestones ended last month.  The Milestones relate to a set of National Indicators, articulated under...

Waiting for care arises from the mismatch between the need for care, and the capacity of NHS services to meet those needs and can lead...

The number of people on NHS Wales waiting lists for treatment has reached record levels. This problem has worsened since the Covid-19 pandemic, with the...

With so much of the focus on the NHS being given to waiting times, it was easy to miss the Welsh Government’s update on...

Our previous blog, Is healthcare in Wales really that different?, sets out some of the key features of the Welsh health and social care system,...

The consistent message in recent submissions to the Senedd enquiry on the Health and Social Care workforce strategy was that the social care workforce is...

During the initial months of the pandemic, when various protections were in place – such as the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit – the number of...