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Swansea Bay UHB’s Cardiac ITU Team Wins Prestigious Sustainability Award

Swansea Bay UHB's Cardiac ITU Team Wins Prestigious Sustainability Award In a remarkable achievement, the Cardiac Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) team from Swansea Bay University Health Board (UHB), led by…

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Event encourages senior NHS Wales Leaders to tackle climate emergency at scale. 

The Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Climate Emergency National Programme, in collaboration with the Dragon’s Heart Institute, recently hosted a highly successful Spread & Scale Academy Leadership Day in…

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Spread & Scale Academy graduates pioneer Sustainable Healthcare with innovative Nitrous Oxide ‘Cracker’ 

Teams working at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) have recently unveiled an innovative advancement in sustainable healthcare: the installation of a ground-breaking nitrous oxide “cracker” machine within the…

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Active Soles: How wearing trainers to work has boosted people’s physical and mental health

In September 2023, the Active Soles team attended the Spread and Scale Academy in Cardiff. Today, organisations around the country are celebrating the movement, encouraging their staff to be more…

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“Demand for this work just went BOOM!” – Spreading and scaling equitable asthma care

In September 2021, Dr Llinos Jones, a respiratory consultant in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and her team attended a Spread and Scale Academy in Pontefract alongside around 100 colleagues…

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Spreading the Supportive Care Model: Improving Equity of Access to Palliative Care in Wales

Historically, there has been a considerable inequity of access to palliative care in Wales with most specialist palliative care prioritised to those with malignancy. Alongside cancer, leading causes of death…

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