Health and social care workforce

Guidance and services

• Hospital discharge guidance
• NHS dress code
• Post registration career framework for nurses
• Nursing and midwifery: enabling professionalism
• Preceptorship guidelines for ward sisters and charge nurses
• NHS Wales speaking up safely framework
• Real Living Wage for social care workers: guidance
• Employing people from Ukraine and refugees in social care: resource for providers
• Employing international workers in social care (Health and Care Worker visa)
• Working in social care in Wales: guidance for international workers
• Employing international students and graduates in social care
• Accessible communication and information standards in healthcare
• Welsh language in health care: guidance for staff
• Welsh language in social care: guidance for staff
• Patient safety incidents (WHC/2018/012)
• Sensory loss communication needs: data standards (WHC/2018/030)
• 'More than just words' Welsh language awareness course (WHC/2022/028)
• Delegating third party tasks (WHC/2016/025)
• Protocol for dealing with violence and aggression towards NHS staff (WHC/2021/012)
• Commencement of the Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020 (WHC/2023/06)
• NHS Wales speaking up safely framework (WHC/2023/036)
• Never events: policy and incident list July 2022 (WHC/2022/020)
• NHS Wales peer review (WHC/2017/037)
• Guide to consent for examination or treatment: revised guidance (WHC/2017/036)
• NHS Wales survey of sustainability in nursing: privacy notice
• Delivering sustainable healthcare: position statement
• Agency workforce reduction programme and control framework 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/031)
• Governance on interim appointments to executive and senior positions (WHC/2024/013)

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

• National workforce implementation plan
  Policy and strategy
• Chief health professionals
  Policy and strategy
• A strategy for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses
  Policy and strategy
• Allied Health Professions (AHP) Framework
  Policy and strategy
  Welsh Allied Health Professions (AHP) Committee
• Social Care Fair Work Forum: annual progress update 2023
  Report
  Social Care Fair Work Forum
• Social Care Fair Work Forum: position statement
  Policy and strategy
  Social Care Fair Work Forum
• Health professional education investment: report
  Report
• The Real Living Wage for social care workers: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Additional payment for social care workers aligned to the Real Living Wage: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• More than just words: Welsh language plan in health and social care
  Policy and strategy
• NHS Wales staff survey 2018: report
  Report
• Chief Medical Officer: annual report 2023
  Report
• Independent authorisation of blood component transfusion (IABT) - 2023 to 2026 (WHC/2023/039)
  Policy and strategy
• Pay award for specialty doctors: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Ambulance patient handover guidance (WHC/2024/041)
  Policy and strategy
• Anti-racism e-learning module (WHC/2024/044)
  Policy and strategy
• Workforce race equality standard: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Pertussis vaccination for healthcare workers (WHC/2024/043)
  Policy and strategy
• Anti-violence collaborative obligatory responses document (WHC/2024/024)
  Policy and strategy
• Implementation of the non-pay parts of the 2022 to 2024 collective agreement (WHC/2024/017)
  Policy and strategy
• Nursing preceptorship and restorative clinical supervision: position statement (WHC/2024/012)
  Policy and strategy
• The future of the band 4 nursing workforce across NHS Wales: full report
  Policy and strategy
• Standards for Competency Assurance of Non-Medical Prescribers in Wales (WHC/2024/02)
  Policy and strategy
• The future of the band 4 nursing workforce across NHS Wales: summary report
  Policy and strategy
• More than just words: annual report 2022 to 2023
  Report
• All-Wales control framework for flexible workforce capacity (WHC/2023/046)
  Policy and strategy