Hywel Dda Health Board sweeps the board at awards
Hywel Dda Health Board has won the most awards of any health board in the Welsh Language in Healthcare Awards 2013. The awards and one-day conference help to share best practice and ensure Welsh language provision is an important element of the care process across the country. The event also promotes the responsibility of health and care providers to actively offer a Welsh language service. The health board won four awards for its excellence in promoting Welsh language and giving patients a language choice. Hywel Dda Health Board had joint winners in the first category of the day – Work done with priority groups – Older People. Michelle Gerard Wilson and the orthopaedic elective team in Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli provides a pre and post operative bilingual patient centred care programme for hip and knee replacement patients. They won for recognising that they must deliver a bilingual patient centred care programme, which includes speaking to patients in their preferred language, ...