Health Education and Improvement Wales - HEIW

31/10/2025

At the National Interprofessional Education Forum hosted by Cardiff Metropolitan University, we explored how interprofessional learning can enrich students’ experiences and strengthen the future healthcare workforce.

By building awareness and embedding interprofessional learning activity, students not only develop a broader skill set but also gain a deeper understanding of how collaboration across professions leads to more integrated, effective, and patient-centred care.

Read our latest news to learn more 🔗: https://heiw.nhs.wales/news/interprofessional-education-the-art-of-the-possible/

31/10/2025

This month, we were proud to welcome Carys Edmunds and Hannah Thomas, student physiotherapists from University of South Wales for a four-week pilot leadership placement, an exciting first for HEIW👏

Practice-based learning involves hands on experience that helps develop essential skills, enhance the quality of care, and support professional growth through real world application and reflection.

This experience offered an excellent opportunity to highlight how HEIW positively influences the NHS workforce through its focus on education and training.

During their placement, Carys and Hannah:
👉 created Allied Health Professionals (AHP) career profiles to highlight inspiring journeys into mental health and support mental health workforce attraction
👉 explored compassionate leadership, reflecting on what it means for their future practice, patient care and professional growth
👉and they provided a valued student voice to programme development across HEIW.

“This placement gave us the chance to grow as future leaders, understand the bigger picture of workforce development, and see how compassionate cultures shape patient care.”

We wish them every success in their future careers as physiotherapists and healthcare leaders of tomorrow.

For more information on placement learning, visit https://heiw.nhs.wales/our-work/allied-health-professions-ahps/careers-and-opportunities/ahp-practice-based-learning/

31/10/2025

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31/10/2025

Strategic priority 6 in our plan: Compassionate Cultures and Effective Leadership, focuses on creating a supportive, inclusive and well-led working environment.

Compassionate leadership involves listening with intent, understanding, empathising and supporting other people to ensure the workforce feel valued respected and cared for, so they can reach their potential and do their best work.

🎥 Watch our short video for a quick look at how we’re making this vision a reality: 👉 https://youtu.be/4ychAx6wO6s

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30/10/2025

If you’re a student training in healthcare and you’ve experienced something that’s not quite right, we urge you to speak up.

To help guide you, we have developed a raising concerns toolkit ➡ https://heiw.nhs.wales/support/raising-concerns-and-speaking-up-safely/raising-concerns-toolkit-students/

We understand raising a concern is not an easy thing to do, but it is so important. We hope the toolkit helps you understand the importance of this and helps you feel comfortable, confident and able to speak up safely.

30/10/2025

📣 Save the date! 📣

Join us on Wednesday 3 December, 3:30 - 4:30pm via MS Teams for the official launch of the new Motivational Interviewing (MI) learning resources! 🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/events/launch-of-heiws-motivational-interviewing-learning-resources/

These resources have been designed to help all healthcare professionals across Wales strengthen person-centred care by supporting collaborative, meaningful conversations that inspire individuals’ own motivation for change.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to explore how Motivational Interviewing can make every conversation count.

Book your place now: 🔗 https://forms.office.com/e/RAb7T7bap0

28/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined our recent engagement sessions on HEIW’s new support model for early career novice prescribing pharmacists.

If you missed out, there’s still time to get involved! We’ve added an extra virtual drop-in session for healthcare employers across Wales to hear more and ask questions.

🗓️ Final session: Wednesday 5th November 2025 | 13:00–14:00

No need to register - just join us via the link on our events page: https://heiw.nhs.wales/events/

Let’s shape the future of pharmacy education together.

Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales

27/10/2025

✨Developing leaders who make a difference in primary care ✨

💪Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership journey?

The Clinical Leadership Immersive Programme (CLIP) Level 2 is now open for applications, designed specifically for collaborative leads, practice managers, and primary care professionals who want to make a bigger impact in their teams, clusters, and communities.

Through this free, immersive training, participants will:
👏 strengthen their confidence and leadership skills
📚 learn how to build motivated, high-performing teams
🗨️ improve collaboration across professions and clusters
🍃 enhance staff wellbeing and retention through compassionate leadership
⬆️ drive innovation and service improvement that benefits patients.

Effective leadership transforms care. When leaders thrive, so do their teams and the patients and communities they serve.

Find out more and apply here:
🔗https://nhswalesleadershipportal.heiw.wales/clip

The fully-funded programme is open to band 6–8a equivalent staff, including nurses, pharmacists, dentists and optometrists. The Strategic Programme for Primary Care Team would support applications to health boards to use cluster funding to backfill course attendance if needed.

24/10/2025

📢 Deadline extension! 📢 Have your say on the future of healthcare education in Wales.

Are you a learner or educator in healthcare? We want to hear from you.

HEIW is developing a new Education Strategy to help shape a skilled and sustainable NHS workforce - your experiences and ideas can help make it better.

We're looking for evidence, insights and suggestions on:
✅ Education quality
✅ Curriculum and future skills
✅ Inclusion and access
✅ Technology in learning
✅ Support for educators

📩 Submit your views by 15 December 2025
🧑‍🏫 Educators form: https://forms.office.com/e/yLMfrCn24S
🎓 Learners form: https://forms.office.com/e/vSMDSrM7GZ
🔗 Web page: https://heiw.nhs.wales/our-work/education-strategy/call-for-evidence-shaping-our-education-strategy/

Together, let’s build a future-ready education system for NHS Wales.

24/10/2025

🎉 Milestone Alert!

HEIW’s National e-Learning Platform, Y Ty Dysgu has now reached over 32,000 users!

Since launching in December 2022, Y Ty Dysgu has become a cornerstone for professional development across Wales’ health and social care workforce.

The platform offers:
• live CPD events & recordings
• eLearning modules
• educational resources
• communities of practice

👏All health and social care staff in Wales can register for free, with Single Sign On (SSO) available for NHS Wales users.

From Mental Health and Pharmacy to Genomics, Simulation, and Digital Capability, courses are designed by leading experts to support learning that truly impacts day-to-day practice.

🚀 New developments are underway too — including learning resources with the Endoscopy Academy.

📚 Explore more: https://ytydysgu.heiw.wales/
🌐 Visit the learning hubs: https://nhswalesytydysgu.heiw.wales/learning-and-networks



Swansea Bay NHS Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Betsi Cadwaladr Hywel Dda Health Board Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Bwrdd Iechyd Addysgu Powys / Powys Teaching Health Board Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

24/10/2025

Keen to know who’s shaping the future of NHS Wales’ workforce? 👀

At HEIW, we’re not just working behind the scenes - we’re leading the way in planning, training, and growing the healthcare professionals of tomorrow. 💙

Here’s a look at what’s been happening across our teams:

🌟 Celebrating learning and innovation
We marked AHP and Psychological Professions Virtual Learning Week – showing how we are supporting and transforming our allied and psychological professions with a repository of resources.
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/our-work/allied-health-professions-ahps/workforce-development/ahp-workforce-transformation-repository/

💫 A first for Wales!
We’ve launched the All Wales Competency Framework for Adult Palliative and End of Life Care – supporting a consistent approach where patients remain at the heart of care.
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/news/a-first-for-wales-in-end-of-life-and-palliative-care/

🎓 Thinking about a clinical academic career in Wales? If you are considering a career as a Clinical Academic in Wales, the WCAT (Wales Clinical Academic in Wales) programme may interest you. Applications for the WCAT programme open via Oriel.
🔗 https://www.oriel.nhs.uk/

👩‍⚕️ Calling all healthcare students in Wales!
Join us at one of the Wales Health Student Forum’s engagement events this November.
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/support/wales-health-student-forum/

🎥 Training that transforms
We believe high-quality education and training empower our workforce. This is evident in priority three of our integrated medium-term plan this year: Excellent education and training. Watch our short video for a quick look at how we’re making this vision a reality;
🔗 https://youtu.be/wbD8QF5whvI

🏅 Supporting the Welsh language in care
Last week, we proudly supported the first-ever More Than Just Words national event. See how we are championing bilingual care.
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/support/using-welsh-at-work/

💬 Looking ahead to WelshConfed25
We are busy getting ready for the WelshConfed25 in November. The programme is now live - and we’re proud to be at the heart of the future workforce conversation.
🔗 https://www.nhsconfed.org/WelshConfed25

🧠 New eLearning: Person-Centred Dementia Care and Medication Use
We are pleased to share with you the recently launched eLearning module for Person-Centred Dementia Care and Use of Medication Now available on Y Ty Dysgu.
🔗 https://ytydysgu.heiw.wales/courses/7cdef749-9a97-4916-9046-13572f080a89

🏆 Pharma-SEE! shortlisted for the Learning Technologies Awards 2026. A huge congratulations to everyone involved!
🔗 Read more: https://heiw.nhs.wales/news/pharma-see-named-finalist-in-prestigious-learning-technologies-awards/

🧩 Working together for better mental health
We’re collaborating with health and social care professionals, peer workers, and people with lived experience across Wales. To find out more about the wider mental health plan visit...
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/workforce/strategic-mental-health-workforce-plan/

🧒 Championing children’s rights
We’re proud to relaunch the NEST/NYTH Children’s Rights Training on Y Ty Dysgu, the national e-learning platform for NHS Wales.
🔗 https://heiw.nhs.wales/news/learning-to-support-childrens-mental-health/



💙 HEIW — Building the workforce of the future, today.

23/10/2025

We’re thrilled to report that our mental health courses have seen over 3,600 enrolments since January 2024!
➡️ https://heiw.nhs.wales/news/empowering-the-workforce-over-3600-enrolments-in-heiws-mental-health-training/

Aligning with our goal to develop a skilled, sustainable, and supported healthcare workforce, this is a fantastic testament to the strong commitment to improving mental health care across Wales ✅

From perinatal mental health to trauma awareness and medication management, our courses on Y Ty Dysgu, the national e-learning platform for NHS Wales, are helping health, social care and third sector staff better understand mental health and support those in need.

Learners report feeling more confident, informed and equipped to make a difference. Read our latest news article to find out more.