Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is replacing 750 beds and mattresses across its sites in order to address its ageing fleet of products, as well as improve care for the ageing population of patients. The new beds and mattresses will be supplied and managed by the UK’s only independent provider of bed management services to the NHS, Medstrom Healthcare. The implementation marks Cardiff and Vale as the first Heath Board in the country to utilise the combination of P.R.O….

EIGHTY per cent of people aged over 60 in Britain – and 89% in Wales – say they are not getting their recommended five portions of fruit and veg every day. A fifth (20%) of people aged over 60 in Wales said they did not eat as much fresh fruit and veg as they could because they lived alone and the produce went off before they could eat it, with another 25% not being confident enough in their cooking ability…

School children across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan have been holding sessions for older people in the local community to raise awareness of and reduce the risk of falling. Staying Steady Schools was launched by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board with the help of Cardiff University students who hosted a number of sessions in local primary schools where children teach older people about the risk of falls and how to reduce them. Following a successful pilot earlier this…