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Throughout the pandemic HIW has been keeping its activity under close review, risk assessing every piece of work to ensure it is appropriate and proportionate given the ongoing pandemic situation.
Our role is to check healthcare services in Wales to find out if people are receiving good care. When, through our work we find this is not the case, we take action so that health boards and their services know where they need to make improvements
The report sets out our activity and findings during the period from April 2020 to March 2021, and explores the extent to which mental health and learning disability healthcare services across Wales provided safe, dignified and least restrictive care during the pandemic.
As we head into what will be a difficult winter period for healthcare services across Wales it is timely to provide an update on our approach and activity over the coming months.
Inspectorates in Wales have worked closely together to review child protection safeguards in Neath Port Talbot, and today published the Joint Inspectorate Review of Child Protection Arrangements (JICPA).
Positive patient experience of ambulance crews but handover delays and variations in process hinder the provision of responsive, safe and dignified care
In its annual report published today [Thursday 23 September] Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) has summarised the findings of all its inspection and assurance work during 2020-21