Health and social care strategy

Guidance and services

• Special procedures: acupuncture, electrolysis, body piercing and tattooing
• Health service procurement: draft statutory guidance
• Understanding user needs GOV.WALES survey: privacy notice
• Health and social care climate adaptation toolkit
• Health and Social Care Climate Emergency National Programme: scheme guidance
• Health and Social Care Climate Emergency National Programme 2023/24: privacy notice
• Code of practice for Llais on accessing premises and engaging people
• NHS framework for research and development (WHC/2023/026)
• Commencement of the Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020 (WHC/2023/06)
• Publication of the quality and safety framework (WHC/2021/022)
• National clinical framework: a learning health and care system
• Standardisation of nursing core risk assessment documents (WHC/2019/026)

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• A healthier Wales: long term plan for health and social care
  Policy and strategy
• A healthier Wales: impact assessments
  Collection
• Supporting older people
  Collection
• Older people and people living with frailty: integrated quality statement
  Guidance
• Strategy for unpaid carers
  Collection
• AI Commission for Health and Social Care
  Policy and strategy
  AI Commission for Health and Social Care
• Health protection system
  Collection
• Diagnostics recovery and transformation strategy for Wales 2023 to 2025
  Policy and strategy
• NHS Welsh Sustainability Conference and Awards: new date (WHC/2024/010)
  Policy and strategy
• Citizen Voice Body (Llais) term of government remit letter 2023 to 2026
  Guidance
• An integrated impact assessment to support Llais's work
  Impact assessment
  Citizen Voice Body for Health and Social Care
• Chief health professionals
  Policy and strategy
• Primary care carbon footprint
  Report
• Death certification reform
  Legislation
• Transforming and modernising planned care and reducing NHS waiting lists
  Policy and strategy
• Improving health and social care (COVID-19 looking forward)
  Policy and strategy
• Winter respiratory vaccination strategy: autumn and winter 2022 to 2023
  Policy and strategy
• Substance misuse delivery plan: 2019 to 2022
  Policy and strategy
• Six goals for urgent and emergency care: policy handbook for 2021 to 2026
  Policy and strategy
• Outpatient services strategy and action plan 2020 to 2023
  Policy and strategy
• Chief Medical Officer's annual reports and data
  Collection
• NHS Quality and Safety Framework
  Policy and strategy
• Maternity services strategy (2019 to 2024)
  Policy and strategy
• Code of practice on the delivery of autism services
  Policy and strategy
• Review of learning disabilities nursing
  Report
• Digital health and social care strategy
  Policy and strategy
• Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement)
  Collection
• Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales obesity strategy
  Collection
• Allied Health Professions (AHP) Framework
  Policy and strategy
  Welsh Allied Health Professions (AHP) Committee
• UK allied health professions public health strategic framework: 2019 to 2024
  Report
  Welsh Allied Health Professions (AHP) Committee
• Public health outcomes framework
  Policy and strategy
• Suicide and self harm prevention strategy 2015 to 2022
  Policy and strategy
• Trusted to Care: 1 year review
  Report
• Healthcare science in NHS Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Healthcare for Gypsies and Travellers: outcomes
  Report
• Imaging services for disease diagnosis
  Policy and strategy
• All Wales research and development delivery funding model: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Impact assessment: Health and social care COVID-19 looking forward
  Impact assessment
• Health protection Part 2A orders 2010 to 2022
  Report
• Directions to Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts in Wales (2009 No.10)
  Legislation
• National Survey for Wales: NHS and social care
  Collection
• National Survey for Wales: population health
  Collection
• The role of outpatients in transforming planned care in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Promote, prevent and prepare for planned care
  Policy and strategy
• Decarbonising social care in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• NHS Wales decarbonisation strategic delivery plan
  Policy and strategy
• Digital and data strategy for health and social care in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance goals 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/038)
  Policy and strategy
• Standardising the management of acute deterioration (WHC/2024/035)
  Policy and strategy
• Transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists: impact assessments
  Collection
• Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: impact assessments
  Collection
• Winter respiratory vaccination programme 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/033)
  Policy and strategy
• The National Health Service Joint Commissioning Committee (Wales) Directions 2024
  Legislation
• Climate smart strategies in nursing and midwifery
  Policy and strategy
• Critical care escalation guidance (WHC/2024/027)
  Policy and strategy
• Neurodivergence code of practice development survey: privacy notice
  Policy and strategy
• Neurodivergence code of practice development survey
  Policy and strategy
• Medical Examiners (Wales) Regulations 2024: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Quality statement for care in emergency departments
  Policy and strategy