Following a meeting with the Head Teacher at Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg towards the end of last year, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity were approached by Sian James, the Head of the Welsh Bac about volunteering opportunities for pupils starting their Community Challenge in September 2019.   Never one to turn down an offer of volunteering, the Health Charity jumped at the chance to work with pupils from Year 11 on a project to improve one of the courtyard gardens…

It was tea and cake all round as tea parties took place on wards and departments across Cardiff and Vale University Health Board as staff and patients came together to celebrate the NHS Big Tea. Hospital staff joined patients, visitors and NHS supporters to raise a cuppa and recognize the wonderful work of our health service.   Teams across a range of different specialties laid on a spread of cakes, scones, fruit and sandwiches for their guests, and dished out…

      The Palliative Care team at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have improved comfort for families of patients receiving end of life care in the acute hospital setting.   The team carried out the National Audit for Care at the End of Life (NACEL) which identified key areas which could be improved to make the patient and family experience easier at what is an already difficult time.   Following the audit the Palliative Care team have arranged…

A new bereavement suite and memory-making room for the parents of stillborn babies has opened at the University Hospital Wales in Cardiff.   The Snow Drop Suite, situated in the hospital’s maternity unit, was kindly funded by Cardiff and Newport SANDS, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity.  The room was designed to give parents a peaceful, private space in which to spend precious time with their baby before saying a final goodbye.   The suite has been equipped with a…

  Rose McDonald recently responded to a call out for artists from the Arts for Health and Well-being Team, and the team felt that she sounded like the perfect person to paint a mural in the new Paediatric Phlebotomy area in Barry Hospital.   Rose is a recent Fine Art Graduate from Cardiff Metropolitan University, and now plans to undertake a Masters in Art Psychotherapy at the University of South Wales. Rose works with acrylic paints, exploring the movement and scale of landscapes, particularly…