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Wales must urgently shift towards a prevention-first approach to health to address stagnating life expectancy and mounting pressures on its health services, according to the Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report published today.

All secondary school pupils will be able to access new education materials designed to help increase understanding about common women’s health conditions.

Wales today marks the 10^th anniversary of a radical change to the organ donation laws – becoming the first part of the UK to introduce deemed consent to help save the lives of hundreds of people in need of an organ transplant

Wales’s innovative public health approach received international recognition at a major World Health Organisation meeting this week.

Further changes to the way 999 calls to the Welsh Ambulance Service are managed will come into force from Tuesday 2 December.

Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Miles, responds to the latest NHS Wales activity and performance data.

An all-Wales agreement has been reached to improve the pay and terms and conditions of thousands of NHS Wales staff undertaking higher clinical duties.

Public bodies will be legally bound to consider the long-term health implications of their decisions following a vote this evening (Tuesday 18 November) in the Senedd.

The Chief Nursing Officer for Wales, Sue Tranka, has today published her new five-year strategic vision setting out how nursing and midwifery professions will lead healthcare transformation.

More than 1,500 people have transformed their health thanks to a Welsh Government-funded football initiative to tackle obesity and inactivity.

Ambitious plans to help NHS Wales reduce its emissions faster to make the health and care system more sustainable are being unveiled today.