Thread: Yesterday @WNHSC_Darren gave evidence to @SeneddFinance on the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26. Key areas: ⚖️ Demand vs capacity 🧓 Social care 📈 Impact of ⬆️ employer's NI contributions 🥗 Spend on incoming demand vs prevention 🏥 Capital investment & limitations

Thank you to all health and care staff for all you did over the Christmas and New Year break. Look after yourself, friends, family and neighbours through this cold snap.

Last night @WNHSC_Darren spoke to @BBCRadioWales about the current frontline pressures on the NHS as we battle flu, Covid, RSV and norovirus. @PublicHealthW Dr Giri Shankar also broke down the latest flu figures 📈 Feature starts at 14:40: 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026b…

Budget day at Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament. Early start to talk to @BBCRadioWales about what the NHS would like to see from it.

Take a look at @WNHSC_Darren's key takeaways from our annual conference. Darren reflects on common themes, as well as Jeremy Miles MS' thoughts in his first conference address as Cabinet Secretary. Read our blog 👇 nhsconfed.org/articles/welsh…

I’d like to second that and also add a MASSIVE THANK YOU to the team at Welsh NHS Confed and our Confed Events colleagues for their hard work to plan, organise and successfully deliver.

Have you seen the first episode of @ITV's 'Prince William: We Can End Homelessness', featuring Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton? It's our pleasure to welcome Sabrina as a guest speaker at our annual conference next week. Don't miss your chance to book! nhsconfed.org/WelshConfed24

📻 This morning @WNHSC_Darren was on @BBCRadioWales outlining what NHS leaders in Wales want to see in the Budget. He stressed the importance of cross-government investment in the wider determinants of health and long-term financial certainty. 1:57 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024f…

Great to be at #NSCC24 . The societal challenges impacting those we’re here to help are same for health and care services. We need to innovate and collaborate to deliver for the people of Wales.

Welsh NHS Confederation chair Jonathan Morgan (@beyondthesenedd) speaks out against racist attacks and thanks staff on behalf of NHS leaders Read Jonathan's full statement 👇 nhsconfed.org/news/welsh-nhs…

Has anyone seen white foxgloves before? Beautiful and mixed in with the standard ones.

Responding to the latest NHS performance stats for Wales, @WNHSC_Darren said: "NHS leaders are all too aware that this is not just a series of numbers on a page, but thousands of people’s lives being affected." Read our full statement 👇 nhsconfed.org/news/nhs-waiti…

Great to be at #ConfedExpo hearing from Amy Edmondson talking about the importance of psychological safety in teams and workplaces. Better performance and better outcomes for patients.

🗣️@WNHSC_Darren: "...fair pay, terms and conditions for the social care workforce are vital to improving retention and minimising vacancies, ensuring the sustainability of health and social care." nhsconfed.org/news/social-ca…

🚀 Welsh government minister Dawn Bowden has officially launched the country’s social care workforce delivery plan for the next three years, building on work since the pandemic. ✍️ The plan sets out the actions that will be taken as part of A Healthier Wales: Our Workforce Strategy for #Health and Social Care, which was launched in the autumn of 2020. ✅ The plan has been split up into seven themes: • An engaged, motivated and healthy workforce • Attraction and #recruitment • Seamless workforce models • Building a digitally ready workforce • Excellent education and learning • Leadership and succession • Workforce supply and shape 🤔 Some of the actions include… Read on for #NHS reaction ⬇️ nationalhealthexecutive.com/… 📢 @SocialCareWales @WelshGovernment @WelshConfed @Dawn_Bowden @SarahMcCartycc @WNHSC_Darren | #SocialCare #Wales #NHSWales

#WalesEnvironmentDay Great to join @NatResWales, @huw4ogmore, @lorddeben at @SeneddWales. Thank you for invitation to talk about work going on across NHS to minimise environmental impact of providing health care and the importance of the environment to health.

Tonight our Director @WNHSC_Darren was live on @SkyNews UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee discussing the key issues and challenges for NHS leaders ahead of the UK General Election

Great to be at launch of @Llais_Wales National Conversation which reflects our calls for a conversation on the future of health&social care. Looking forward to working together to get the best outcomes for communities with the enormous demographic and economic challenges ahead.

🗣️@WNHSC_Darren: "Meeting the health and care needs of the population is a growing challenge. NHS leaders look forward to working with the National Office for Care and Support to improve integration between health and care services, ensuring better outcomes for patients."

This a great read. I have Neo Blood but had only a vague understanding of what it was. I can’t understand why more people don’t give blood. The day I found out I had special 'neo' blood. bbc.co.uk/news/health-682050…