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CYMRU
Relaunching Advancing Healthcare Awards Cymru
We are planning to bring back our Welsh
awards this year, refreshed and expanded
to reflect the remarkable work of AHPs
and healthcare scientists in Wales. And we
need your help to attract new sponsors and
supporters. We are hoping to launch in May
with the awards ceremony on 14 November in
Cardiff.
We need the support of the professional
organisations, charities, consultancies, advisory
bodies and companies serving these important
groups. Sponsorship of this well-established event
is an invaluable platform for your organisation.
We work closely with the Welsh Government to
develop this important programme to recognise
the value and significance of these important, but
often overlooked, professionals and specialist.
The themes we are planning include:
• excellence in rehabilitation
• leadership in healthcare science, and leadership
in the allied health professions
• developing the AHP and healthcare science
workforce
• new ways of working
• working across boundaries
• improving patient care through technology
• improving access to health and care.
We are also very happy to discuss with you an
award theme that works for you. Join us to build
the Advancing Healthcare Awards Cymru 2025.
To see the Cymru sponsorship brochure,
click here.
First chief healthcare scientific officer appointed in Wales
Victoria Heath will advise the Welsh Government
on the most effective ways to use healthcare
science to deliver improved healthcare, including
modernising and introducing new diagnostic
technologies and treatments.
Victoria says: “I’m honoured to be appointed to
the role of chief healthcare science officer at the
Welsh Government and to work alongside the 7,000
healthcare scientists who contribute to healthcare
across Wales.”
She will support and represent more than 50
different roles within the healthcare science
professions in Wales. Victoria comes from
the NHS ME-5 Pathology Network, where she
was responsible for the development and
implementation of workforce initiatives.
She has worked in the NHS since she was 18,
starting her career as a biomedical scientist trainee
in Oxfordshire, and registered as a biomedical
scientist in 2010 and a clinical scientist in 2023. She
has experience in healthcare science roles across
the UK and was deployed to Sierra Leone in 2015 to
respond to the West African Ebola Outbreak.
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Victoria Heath
