Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has been awarded Gold for its support to the armed forces, only 50 awarded in the UK this year. The Health Board was awarded a Gold Award announced by the Ministry of Defence for businesses and organisations who have shown outstanding support for the military community and the Armed Forces Covenant. The ‘Gold Awards’ recognise that Cardiff and Vale UHB have shown fantastic initiative in areas such as employing veterans and providing…

      A doctor described by his colleagues as passionate, dedicated and a champion for stroke services in Wales has received the inaugural Welsh Stroke Excellence Award. Dr Hamsaraj Shetty, a consultant in Stroke medicine at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board picked up the first ever award at this year’s Welsh Stroke Conference. The new awards were launched for the 2018 annual conference and aims to recognise those practitioners in Wales who are providing high quality care to…

Women’s wellbeing clinic opens for those affected by FGM This week, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has launched Wales’s first Specialist Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Pilot Clinic. The specialist service known as the ‘Women’s Wellbeing Clinic’ will be open to all females affected by FGM or who are at potential risk of FGM occurring. The cultural practice of FGM is widely associated with profound health implications for all females affected and has no health benefits. Until now, females…