Prevention in practice? Friday 30 November saw groups and organisations across the UK come together to celebrate Carers’ Rights Day. And despite the grey, autumnal day outside, the mood in Cardiff Council’s County Hall – where I was invited to attend the Council’s Carers Staff Network event – was anything but gloomy. Carers’ Rights Day…
When you conjure up images of rural Wales, you no doubt think of mountains and coast line, sheep, tractors, farmers and Ifor Williams trailers (“Britain’s leading trailer manufacturer”) which always seem to be in front of you when driving the A470. In reality, roughly 20% of our population lives in rural Wales and their needs…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme.
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Harrie Clemens writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Jodie Williams writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Sarah Liddell writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Jennie Morris writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
Confused? It’s no wonder why. Out-of-hours services have a branding nightmare. Other names for these services include: GP out-of-hours services; primary care out-of-hours services; and urgent primary care services. Whatever you call them, they are really important services. They provide urgent primary care during the time that GP surgeries are closed. Our latest report has…
Claire Flood-Page tells us more about our Speak My Language report. We look at the consequences of not making services accessible to all. In a recent court case, an NHS Trust in England will have to pay millions of pounds in compensation [opens in a new window] after a baby was left severely brain-damaged[1]. The…
A GREAT place to work! This isn’t just a glib strapline – it is a real commitment to everyone that works here at the Wales Audit Office and everyone who wants to work here. We are not all robots; we’re a team of over 250 unique, individual people. We each have different motivators, different likes…
Rachel Harries, tells us more about the ways technology can improve NHS services and our report Informatics Systems in NHS Wales says it can do better The white heat of modern technology has transformed the way we live in many ways, including advances in medical care, but if we consider how that care is delivered,…
