Health Board double award winner at NHS Wales Awards 2011
The health board’s work in improving training for staff to deliver better foot care services for patients scooped the Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce award.
Success also came in the Working Seamlessly Across Organisations category when a project working with GPs to improve care for patients with skin conditions by using telemedicine was recognised as best practice.
The double win, announced in a ceremony at the All Nations Centre, Cardiff on July 6, repeats last year’s success at the NHS Wales Awards when Cardiff
Jan Williams, Chief Executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: “We are all hugely proud of not only our two winners but all five shortlisted projects.
“To put forward 26 examples of innovative work for this year’s NHS Wales Awards, and for five of the UHB’s teams to be in the running, was such an achievement in itself and testament to the excellent work being carried out across the Health Board.
“Congratulations to all of those involved in both the Teledermatology and Podiatry projects. They are great examples of the Health Board’s commitment to putting patients first.”
“These two winning projects have not only made a difference to the lives of patients in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, their innovation and efforts will now hopefully be replicated by our colleagues in other health boards so that the benefits of this work can be felt in communities across Wales.”
You can read press releases about all the nominated projects by clicking on the links on the left hand side of this page.
