Welcome to Healthcare Inspectorate Wales

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) has published a report following an unannounced inspection on the Emergency Department (ED) at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, managed by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) recently carried out an unannounced inspection of the Emergency Department (ED), including the Paediatric ED, at Morriston Hospital, managed by Swansea Bay University Health Board.

We want to ensure healthcare services reflect on our inspection and assurance work and measure their own services against these findings to drive forward service improvement. We hope the findings of good practice illustrated within this case study below can be transferred between organisations, and across the wider health service to support system improvements.

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) and Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) have published their annual monitoring report on how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are being used in Wales.

We have published our Mental Health Monitoring Annual Report 2023-24, which outlines our assurance activities and findings for mental health and learning disability services. Monitoring of the Mental Health Act 1983 is a statutory responsibility delegated to HIW since 1 April 2009 by Welsh Ministers at which point responsibility for monitoring the functions of the Act was transferred from the Mental Health Act Commission. The report examines the standard of care within NHS and independent settings across Wales from April 2023 to March 2024.