Establishing an effective environment for learning

The Fifth Objective 

Provides opportunity to learn when things don't go as planned, to teach, and to widely use the many sources of information available to us in order to support decision making and knowledge. 

University partnership

Academic enrichment is an integral part of our approach to providing high quality medical, nursing and allied health professional care for North Wales residents. Maintaining high levels of research, development and innovation aid us to recruiting high-calibre professionals and in providing progressive clinical services.

Research, development and innovation

We benefit from being a research active organisation, whilst rapidly exploiting the latest innovations and wishes to retain and grow these benefits. This year the North Wales Clinical Research Facility began the first-in-human vaccinations trial in the UK in the fight against mpox (previously known as monkeypox). The trial was sponsored by Moderna for a new vaccine against the disease and is the latest pioneering study to be carried out at the facility.

Academic careers

Offering career pathways that span academic and operational practice has the potential to help us recruit and retain staff in difficult to staff areas, and also to help maintain an innovative approach to service redesign.

Intelligence-led

Numerous external reviews have identified the need for us to be making evidence-based decisions based on good data. Becoming an intelligence led organisation will result in proactive decision making, risk mitigation, optimal use of resources and improve quality and performance which means better health and well-being outcomes across North Wales.

Learning organisation

Robustly investigating significant events, and then ensuring widespread learning will reduce the number of future significant events that arise.

The new medical school for North Wales will admit and train hundreds of medical students in its first decade and will help ensure there are increased training opportunities for qualified doctors to stay and work within NHS Wales.