• Have you given feedback to health and social care services?
• How have you provided the feedback?
• What have service providers or decision makers done with your feedback?

We have partnered with ACCESS Learning to research how feedback drives improvements in Welsh health and social care services.

Let us know how you have your say about services you have received, and what difference you think it makes.

We’re gathering your experiences to directly influence policy makers, governments, and service providers. Your voice will make a difference!

Take our quick survey now and help us ensure services truly meet your needs.

Survey is open until 23 March 2025.  

Connecting with our lived experience … what what keeps us well … a welcome to older people 65+, people with dementia, family and friends.

Click here for more info

Are you a talented individual from a Black, Asian, or minority ethnic background (including Gypsy, Roma, and Travellers) interested in making a difference in the health sector in Wales? The Aspiring Board Members Programme is here to help you become ‘board ready’ for Independent Board Member roles within NHS Wales. The programme is being delivered in partnership by Welsh Government, NHS Wales, and Academi Wales, and is a key commitment of the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.

The Aspiring Board Members Programme is a comprehensive 12-month leadership development initiative which will include:

• Learning Events: Focused on building your knowledge, understanding, and confidence to excel as a Board Member.
• Board Placements: Gain hands-on experience with a host board, supported by a sponsor who is an existing board member.
• Independent Leadership Coaching: Personalized coaching to enhance your leadership skills and professional development.

Click here to learn more about the programme

How you can be part of shaping the future of acute and crisis mental health services by sharing your voice?

What are these discussions for?

We’ve partnered with NHS Wales Executive to help them gather your views on how a new crisis and in-patient mental health care programme could improve the support people receive.

At the discussions, people will share and discuss their experiences. The things shared and worked on together within the group will form part of a report to NHS Wales. This report will then be used in the development of new acute and crisis mental health care support.

We want to hear your story, whether that’s receiving support, helping someone else to receive support, or working in services.

Put simply, if you’ve had experience of acute or crisis mental health care in Wales in the past five years, this is a chance to share your experience, and work together to help shape the future of mental health services.

These discussions will take place in February and March 2025.

When are the discussions ?

Attendees will only need to come to one of the discussion days.

Family members, carers and third-sector staff

• Monday 17^th February 2025
  • Swansea

• Tuesday 18^th February 2025
  • Online

People who have been in-patients in mental health services or have accessed crisis services

• Monday 17^th March 2025
  • Colwyn Bay

• Tuesday 18^th March 2025
  • Cardiff

Platfform is holding a series of discussion groups for you to share your experiences and views, helping produce a report for NHS Wales on how services can best support people.

These discussions are for people who have accessed support from acute and crisis care services in Wales in the last five years, or have supported others to do so – either as family members or third-sector staff.

These discussions will take place on 17th February, 18th February, 17th March and 18th March at venues across Wales.

Share your story and be part of building better services in Wales.

Register to take part by 6th Feb at platfform.org/acc

CEDAR is running a survey on the barriers and facilitators to the adoption AI in healthcare in Wales. We are looking to hear from anyone who is:

–          at least 16 years old and lives in Wales, or

–          a registered healthcare professional working in Wales and make treatment (or therapy) decisions together with (or for) patients

Our 2024 annual survey of dementia carers is now live. If you provide help and support to a family member or friend with dementia, or have done in the past, we’d love to hear from you.What you tell us will help us better understand the pressures on family carers, shape the services we provide and prioritise what we ask the government to address.

The Regional Partnership Board Dementia Programme, are mapping the resources that are available locally for Community Care and Support.

This is part of work they are undertaking to improve dementia and wellbeing services as part of the Welsh Government Dementia Programme)

Please help by completing the survey – Many thanks!

In the King’s Speech last month, the government announced they want to make changes to the Mental Health Act. Please help us advocate for reforms that support our community by taking our survey.

This survey takes about 20 minutes to fill in, and covers several key areas of the Mental Health Act, including detention (also known as sectioning), Community Treatment Orders and racial inequalities in mental health care.

Please feel free to skip any questions you do not wish to answer or that aren’t relevant to you.

Do you provide services and activities that provide care and support for people living with Dementia?

The Regional Partnership Board Dementia Programme, are mapping the resources that are available locally for Community Care and Support.

This is part of work they are undertaking to improve dementia and wellbeing services as part of the Welsh Government Dementia Programme

Please help by completing the survey – Many thanks!

To help develop the Forum and ensure that Unpaid Carers are appropriately represented on the Forum and are supported to become actively engaged in shaping how the forum develops, Adult Services, in partnership with C3SC and with support from Housing & Communities is seeking to “appoint” Unpaid Carer Champions to represent the interests of Unpaid Carers for the following cohorts of service users:

• Adults with a Learning Disability
• Older People / People with a Physical Disability
• Adults with Mental Health Needs / Substance Misue issues

Click here to express your interest

Would you like to help advance knowledge and contribute to a meaningful cause? Get involved in our research community and join the hundreds of people who have already signed up to help researchers understand bipolar better.

Our research team – Dr Tania Gergel and Dr Talen Wright – lead various research projects and work with a growing number of research partners. You’ll never be contacted by our research partners directly, though, only ever by our in-house team.

Whether you’re living with bipolar, or you have a loved one with bipolar, it only takes five minutes to get involved and make a difference!

We want to make sure that people’s stories of receiving or requesting support from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are heard. Have you been through CAMHS or supported a young person to do so? Are there things you want to share about your experience – things you’d change, things that were hard, or that worked well?

As part of Shaping Our Clinical Services (2025-2035), the Health Board would like to learn what is most important to you about the care you receive.

Whether you are, or have been, a patient in our children and young person services or the parent of someone who has, we would like to hear from you. We are also welcoming feedback from colleagues, stakeholders, and people who may at some point use the services.

When completing this survey, please think about your past experiences with our services for babies, children and young people, or what you would like to see from them.

Your feedback will help design the future of our services for children and young people.

Please answer honestly.

Have Your Say

We at cavamh are looking to update our home page to best cater to our users.  To help us we would love to hear your feedback about how it is currently.

Tell us your opinion by taking the short survey linked below

Take the short survey now

Do you or have you lived in the Vale of Glamorgan?

Would you be interested in contributing to a survey?

An opportunity to share your experience – can be anonymousand be included in a prize draw.

Click here for the survey and more info.

Public Health Wales is preparing to launch a ‘National Conversation on Mental Wellbeing’ through a website and campaign called Hapus.

Now is your chance to tell them what works for you!

Welsh Government invite you to help shape future strategies for mental health and wellbeing, and suicide and self-harm prevention in Wales. It has been 10 years since the previous strategies were published. The consultation will close on 11 June 2024. 

Click for more info

Read the consultation document here

Easy Read version here

Response form link here

Response form deadline: Tuesday 11 June 2024

If you have experience of a mental health problem, we want to hear from you about voting.

Have you registered to vote? Or is it too difficult to?

We’re undertaking research into the barriers that people with mental health problems face in registering to vote. By sharing your experience, you’ll be helping to promote voting rights for all.

Time to Change Wales has commissioned Beaufort Research to run a public attitudes survey to find out more about the experiences and opinions of people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in Wales around mental health and stigma. The purpose of the study is to deepen our understanding of the barriers which face certain communities in discussing this topic.

This questionnaire will take around 10 minutes to complete. All the information you provide will be kept strictly confidential.

https://online1.snapsurveys.com/qpxlrx

The closing date for the survey is 20^th February.

Mae ein tîm yn Samaritans Cymru yn gweithio ar brosiect iechyd meddwl newydd i rieni gyda’r nod:

• I leihau hunanladdiad ymysg rhieni newydd a chodi ymwybyddiaeth o’r cymorth sydd ar gael i bob rhiant

• I wella canlyniadau ar gyfer unrhyw un sy’n dod yn rhiant – yn enwedig trwy ymwreiddio mesurau ataliol ac ymyrraeth gynnar, a gwella gofal argyfwng

• Mynd i’r afael â’r stigma ynghylch dod yn rhiant ac iechyd meddwl

• Codi proffil a gwella dealltwriaeth o iechyd meddwl gwael a risg hunanladdiad ymysg tadau newydd

Rydym yn galw ar y trydydd sector, gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, awdurdodau lleol, cynghreiriau a rhwydweithiau, a llawer o sefydliadau eraill, i’n helpu ni hyrwyddo’r arolwg hwn cymaint â phosibl.

Cwblhewch yr arolwg yma

Our team at Samaritans Cymru are currently working on a new parental mental health project which aims to –

• Reduce suicide in new parents and raise awareness of support for all parents

• Improve outcomes for anyone on the parenthood journey – particularly embedding preventative and early intervention measures and improving crisis care

• Tackle the stigma surrounding parenthood and mental health

• Raise the profile and understanding of poor mental health and suicide risk in new Fathers

We are calling on the third sector, public services, local authorities, alliances and networks and many other organisations to help us promote this survey as far and wide as possible.

Complete the survey here

We are seeking views from you and those you work with on our new draft Standards for Chief Pharmacists. Our feedback survey is open until 16 April 2024.

We want to hear what everyone thinks about our draft standards, so please help us spread the word.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Click for more info

Have you ever been assessed in relation to the Mental Health Act?

Do you live in the Vale of Glamorgan?

Would you be interested in taking part in an independent evaluation of your experience?

We will be holding drop ins to explain further in Mind in the Vale Centres in Llantwit, Penarth and Barry on the following dates:

Llantwit on 24^th January 2pm – 4pm

Penarth 25^th January 6pm – 8pm

Barry 29^th January 2pm – 4pm

If you would like to find out more, please feel free to get in touch with Zoe who can provide you with more information

Click for more info

Public Health Wales is preparing to launch a ‘National Conversation on Mental Wellbeing’ through a website and campaign called Hapus.

Now is your chance to tell them what works for you!

Welsh Government invite you to help shape future strategies for mental health and wellbeing, and suicide and self-harm prevention in Wales. It has been 10 years since the previous strategies were published. The consultation will close on 11 June 2024. 

Click for more info

Read the consultation document here

Easy Read version here

Response form link here

Response form deadline: Tuesday 11 June 2024

If you have experience of a mental health problem, we want to hear from you about voting.

Have you registered to vote? Or is it too difficult to?

We’re undertaking research into the barriers that people with mental health problems face in registering to vote. By sharing your experience, you’ll be helping to promote voting rights for all.

Time to Change Wales has commissioned Beaufort Research to run a public attitudes survey to find out more about the experiences and opinions of people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in Wales around mental health and stigma. The purpose of the study is to deepen our understanding of the barriers which face certain communities in discussing this topic.

This questionnaire will take around 10 minutes to complete. All the information you provide will be kept strictly confidential.

https://online1.snapsurveys.com/qpxlrx

The closing date for the survey is 20^th February.

Mae ein tîm yn Samaritans Cymru yn gweithio ar brosiect iechyd meddwl newydd i rieni gyda’r nod:

• I leihau hunanladdiad ymysg rhieni newydd a chodi ymwybyddiaeth o’r cymorth sydd ar gael i bob rhiant

• I wella canlyniadau ar gyfer unrhyw un sy’n dod yn rhiant – yn enwedig trwy ymwreiddio mesurau ataliol ac ymyrraeth gynnar, a gwella gofal argyfwng

• Mynd i’r afael â’r stigma ynghylch dod yn rhiant ac iechyd meddwl

• Codi proffil a gwella dealltwriaeth o iechyd meddwl gwael a risg hunanladdiad ymysg tadau newydd

Rydym yn galw ar y trydydd sector, gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, awdurdodau lleol, cynghreiriau a rhwydweithiau, a llawer o sefydliadau eraill, i’n helpu ni hyrwyddo’r arolwg hwn cymaint â phosibl.

Cwblhewch yr arolwg yma

Our team at Samaritans Cymru are currently working on a new parental mental health project which aims to –

• Reduce suicide in new parents and raise awareness of support for all parents

• Improve outcomes for anyone on the parenthood journey – particularly embedding preventative and early intervention measures and improving crisis care

• Tackle the stigma surrounding parenthood and mental health

• Raise the profile and understanding of poor mental health and suicide risk in new Fathers

We are calling on the third sector, public services, local authorities, alliances and networks and many other organisations to help us promote this survey as far and wide as possible.

Complete the survey here

We are seeking views from you and those you work with on our new draft Standards for Chief Pharmacists. Our feedback survey is open until 16 April 2024.

We want to hear what everyone thinks about our draft standards, so please help us spread the word.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Click for more info

Have you ever been assessed in relation to the Mental Health Act?

Do you live in the Vale of Glamorgan?

Would you be interested in taking part in an independent evaluation of your experience?

We will be holding drop ins to explain further in Mind in the Vale Centres in Llantwit, Penarth and Barry on the following dates:

Llantwit on 24^th January 2pm – 4pm

Penarth 25^th January 6pm – 8pm

Barry 29^th January 2pm – 4pm

If you would like to find out more, please feel free to get in touch with Zoe who can provide you with more information

Click for more info

Public Health Wales is preparing to launch a ‘National Conversation on Mental Wellbeing’ through a website and campaign called Hapus.

Now is your chance to tell them what works for you!

Welsh Government invite you to help shape future strategies for mental health and wellbeing, and suicide and self-harm prevention in Wales. It has been 10 years since the previous strategies were published. The consultation will close on 11 June 2024. 

Click for more info

Read the consultation document here

Easy Read version here

Response form link here

Response form deadline: Tuesday 11 June 2024

If you have experience of a mental health problem, we want to hear from you about voting.

Have you registered to vote? Or is it too difficult to?

We’re undertaking research into the barriers that people with mental health problems face in registering to vote. By sharing your experience, you’ll be helping to promote voting rights for all.

Time to Change Wales has commissioned Beaufort Research to run a public attitudes survey to find out more about the experiences and opinions of people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in Wales around mental health and stigma. The purpose of the study is to deepen our understanding of the barriers which face certain communities in discussing this topic.

This questionnaire will take around 10 minutes to complete. All the information you provide will be kept strictly confidential.

https://online1.snapsurveys.com/qpxlrx

The closing date for the survey is 20^th February.

Mae ein tîm yn Samaritans Cymru yn gweithio ar brosiect iechyd meddwl newydd i rieni gyda’r nod:

• I leihau hunanladdiad ymysg rhieni newydd a chodi ymwybyddiaeth o’r cymorth sydd ar gael i bob rhiant

• I wella canlyniadau ar gyfer unrhyw un sy’n dod yn rhiant – yn enwedig trwy ymwreiddio mesurau ataliol ac ymyrraeth gynnar, a gwella gofal argyfwng

• Mynd i’r afael â’r stigma ynghylch dod yn rhiant ac iechyd meddwl

• Codi proffil a gwella dealltwriaeth o iechyd meddwl gwael a risg hunanladdiad ymysg tadau newydd

Rydym yn galw ar y trydydd sector, gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, awdurdodau lleol, cynghreiriau a rhwydweithiau, a llawer o sefydliadau eraill, i’n helpu ni hyrwyddo’r arolwg hwn cymaint â phosibl.

Cwblhewch yr arolwg yma

Our team at Samaritans Cymru are currently working on a new parental mental health project which aims to –

• Reduce suicide in new parents and raise awareness of support for all parents

• Improve outcomes for anyone on the parenthood journey – particularly embedding preventative and early intervention measures and improving crisis care

• Tackle the stigma surrounding parenthood and mental health

• Raise the profile and understanding of poor mental health and suicide risk in new Fathers

We are calling on the third sector, public services, local authorities, alliances and networks and many other organisations to help us promote this survey as far and wide as possible.

Complete the survey here

We are seeking views from you and those you work with on our new draft Standards for Chief Pharmacists. Our feedback survey is open until 16 April 2024.

We want to hear what everyone thinks about our draft standards, so please help us spread the word.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Click for more info

Have you ever been assessed in relation to the Mental Health Act?

Do you live in the Vale of Glamorgan?

Would you be interested in taking part in an independent evaluation of your experience?

We will be holding drop ins to explain further in Mind in the Vale Centres in Llantwit, Penarth and Barry on the following dates:

Llantwit on 24^th January 2pm – 4pm

Penarth 25^th January 6pm – 8pm

Barry 29^th January 2pm – 4pm

If you would like to find out more, please feel free to get in touch with Zoe who can provide you with more information

Click for more info