A database with information about drug addicts and other substance abusers has been launched in Swansea.

HEALTH and social services spending will be frozen at around £6 billion for the next three years despite an Assembly pledge to protect its budget “from any cash reductions.”

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save two council-run residential care homes in Llanelli have attacked the council, claiming it is exerting “undue pressure” on elderly people to leave their homes.

Swansea council is drawing up plans which could see adult social services outsourced to save costs.

Three demonstrator projects in Wales testing new ways of managing chronic conditions including use of predictive risk software and telehealth have reported NHS savings of at least £2.2 million in the last year.

WALES’ First Minister Carwyn Jones hailed “the pioneering model of care” when he officially opened a £4 million dementia centre in Wrexham on Friday.

THE tireless dedication and vision of a caring boss has been recognised with a national award.

A High Court judge has granted permission for a judicial review of how Pembrokeshire council sets the amount it pays in care home fees.

JOURNALIST and author Alastair Campbell visited a Flintshire school to help launch of a new scheme.

Plans for a major shake-up of home care services for some of Cardiff’s most vulnerable adults are being discussed.