The Staff Lottery Bids Panel recently approved a bid to provide the staff at the UHB daytime services call centre based in the old Barry leisure centre with a new garden bench, which will allow them to spend more time outdoors during their breaks. The team weren’t able to work from home during the pandemic,
Our Health Meadow at University Hospital Llandough has received a Building with Nature Full Award*, the first of its kind in Wales! The Building with Nature Standards provide planners and developers with evidence-based, how-to, guidance on delivering high quality green infrastructure. The Standard puts nature at the heart of development in a way that’s good
Back in March 2022 we received news of Robert Morris signing up to Ironman Tenby 2022, to raise funds for the Major Trauma Team who saved his daughters life. We have received updates to say that Rob’s training is going excellently, and his fundraising page has received an incredible amount of donations! He has also
Cardiff & Vale Health Charity is pleased to announce Meryl Hosapian, has been crowned Health Hero for June. Meryl has been described by her colleagues as having the most wonderful way with patients, engaging them and calming them down when en route to often upsetting and anxiety-inducing scans. With a positive attitude, she often works
Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) began a project to transform their inpatient garden into an inviting, stimulating and relaxing area that patients would enjoy and utilise as part of their therapy. With funding agreed from the Staff Lottery Bids Panel, the team were able to purchase outdoor musical equipment, situated at certain points
Funding from NHS Charities Together has supported Cardiff & Vale Health Charity to purchase several new items across multiple Health Board Departments to contribute to a more comfortable and efficient experience for patients throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. Colour Changing Mood Lamps for the Maternity Unit The purchase of five colour changing mood lamps has helped
Over the long bank holiday weekend, the country celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and so did we! To mark this special occasion, we sent 80 Jubilee boxes to our in-patient wards across our Cardiff and Vale University Health Board sites. In them we included balloons, flags, activity packs from Mental Health Matters and our Platinum
The Dental Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit were granted a section of new furniture through funding from NHS Charities together to enhance the unit’s staff room. The Dental Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit provide decontamination services to various clinics and departments within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and staff worked a considerable amount of additional hours
The Staff Lottery SuperDraw took place on Friday 27th May 2022. The lucky winner of the £6,000 May SuperDraw 2022 is Ian Evans – Dental Service, St David’s Hospital YOUR £1,000 MAY STAFF LOTTERY WINNERS ARE: James Payyampallil – Housekeeping (Community) Catherine Morris – Emergency Unit (UHW) Debbie Mynett – Community Addictions Team (CRI) Juliet
Grow Well is the flagship community social prescribing project in the South West Cardiff Primary Care Cluster. The Cluster’s social prescribing pathway, into which Grow Well is embedded, enables GPs and social prescribers based in surgeries and other health-based voluntary and local authority services, to seamlessly refer patients to therapeutic, welcoming community gardens. Through the
