Being innovative, adopting best practice and learning are key to improving and delivering high quality services for the people of North Wales.
We work with a wide range of education and research partners across Wales and England to give our staff the skills they need to deliver and improve services, as well as pioneer new ways of working for our service users.
For example:
- Our clinicians will seek to embed best practice into their clinical work, informed through peer-reviewed publications that may include that published from both the University of Bangor and Wrexham University. There are a number of clinicians that work with the universities to provide both teaching and research, which is something that we will look to build on with the development of the new Medical School. This is an example of how we work with universities to secure longer term success in keeping well trained and motivated clinicians.
- We have collaborated with private research companies on things like using AI for diagnostics in urological cancers and breast cancers. We were the first health board in the UK to use this software clinically and are leading in Wales on its roll-out to other Health Boards.
- Our rapid diagnostic clinic for unspecified cancers has been a great success, bringing people from referral to a treatment plan within a couple of weeks. It has also benefited the great majority of those referred to the service by ruling out cancer as a diagnosis and either discharging them or referring on more quickly to other specialties.