🤩 Wonderful day yesterday at the NHS Wales Awards – thanks to @cedarcardiff.bsky.social for their great public involvement work. Delighted that the project, ‘Development of the NHS Wales People’s Experience Survey’, was a finalist for the Person-Centred Care Award! 🎉

A really enjoyable day today at the stunning Cornerstone Cardiff attending the School of Medicine’s Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement Showcase 2025. ​#PPIE #CardiffUni #HealthResearch #CUMEDICPPIE @cumedicengage.bsky.social @cavuhb.bsky.social

Great to be at the Cardiff University School of Medicine day for patient & public involvement & engagement. I’m here talking about some of my favourite engagement projects: a story book to talk about parental addiction, tactile astronomical maps for visually impaired people & so many more.

A really interesting day yesterday at the Medical Device Showcase, with talks from the MHRA, Welsh Government, DHCW, and the Artificial Eye Service 👁 Thank you to the All Wales MDR Group for organising a great day! 👏 #MedicalDevices @mhragovuk.bsky.social @dhcwales.bsky.social

We are very excited to announce that CEDAR will be partnering with @moondancecancer.bsky.social to deliver CADARN – a new system level intervention to enable faster, fairer delivery of cancer research across Wales. For more information about #CADARN see: moondance-cancer.wales/research-ins....

A huge welcome to our new Senior Researcher, Dr. Grace McCutchan! An experienced Behavioural Scientist, Grace brings expertise in health inequalities, behaviour change, and inclusion. We're thrilled to have her on the CEDAR team. 🤗 cedar.nhs.wales/about-us/ced... @grace-mccutchan.bsky.social

CEDAR are evaluating the All-Wales Urgent Primary Care Practitioner Competency Framework to assess its effectiveness using surveys and interviews to help inform its future national rollout. Read more about the project on our website: cedar.nhs.wales/our-work/eva... #UrgentCare #PrimaryCare

1/2: Great news! CEDAR has renewed its contract as an External Assessment Group (EAG) for NICE. For over a decade, we have provided clinical and economic assessments of medical technologies to inform their evidence-based guidance. #NICE #HealthTech

🗞️ We’re excited to share our newly redesigned quarterly bulletin featuring our latest updates, including key project highlights, news from national conferences, a staff spotlight, and our most recent publications. Read the full issue on our website: cedar.nhs.wales/files/summer...

Hawys, CEDAR's Welsh Language Lead is in the concourse of the University Hospital of Wales today, talking to patients about PROMs translation, and how Welsh speakers can get involved. Come and chat to us, or visit our website for more info: cedar.nhs.wales/our-work/val... #PROMs #Welsh #NHSWales

We're finalists! Delighted that our People’s Experience Survey for NHS Wales has been shortlisted in the 'Strengthening the Foundation' category at the PEN Awards 2025. 🏆👏 Fingers crossed for the finals in October - @pen-news.bsky.social! #PatientExperience #NHSWales #Finalist #PENawards2025

⭐️ Happy to share that our article, in collab with CEDAR, is featured in the latest LUPUS UK magazine! 😀 It discusses the refreshed National PREMs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📝 — project winner of the 2024 Health & Care Research Public Involvement Award 🏆 Available to all LUPUS UK subscribers #Lupus #PREM #PPI #Survey #Wales

1/2 CEDAR is leading a health economic evaluation of single-use endoscopes (IQ Endoscopes) for the Cardiff Capital Region Endoscopy Challenge Fund! We're working with @ShapingChangeCV and Cardiff and Vale UHB to explore the clinical, economic, and environmental potential of these endoscopes.

CEDAR is a combined NHS-academic research centre based in Cardiff, bringing together clinical expertise and academic excellence. We support high-impact clinical trials, evaluate healthcare interventions, and provide analytical and research support across Wales. cedar.nhs.wales

Last couple of days to apply for the Clinical Evaluation Scientist position at CEDAR! Applications close on Tuesday 01/07/2025. Apply now! www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Cardi... #NHSjobs #ScienceJobs #HTA #Researchjobs

Kathleen Withers (Deputy Director) and Christina Lloydwin (Senior Researcher) from CEDAR attended the NHS Wales Sustainability Conference & Awards last week at Swansea Arena, joined by Edward Chapman (Head of Clinical Engineering, Cardiff & Vale UHB).

CEDAR is leading clinical trial management of RSA-PACE - a first-in-human study testing Ceryx Medical’s Cysoni heart pacing device in heart failure patients.🫀 Read the mediwales lifestories article below or visit our website for more details: cedar.nhs.wales/our-work/cli...

We're hiring! CEDAR is looking for a Clinical Evaluation Scientist (Band 7) to join our team. 📝 1-year fixed-term contract 📅 Apply by 1st July If you're passionate about evidence-based healthcare and innovation in medical technologies, we'd love to hear from you. www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Cardi...

1/2: If you're heading to the MediWales Connects Conference tomorrow, we’ll see you there at the All Nations Centre in Cardiff. Don’t miss our panel session at 10:00 AM – From Conception to Adoption: Collaborating to Generate New Evidence.

We're hiring! 👩‍🔬 CEDAR is looking for a Clinical Evaluation Scientist (Band 7) to join our team in Cardiff. You'll work on projects for key national bodies like NICE, JCC and Welsh Value in Health Centre to help shape healthcare decisions. Apply now: www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Cardi...

1/3: The CEDAR team attended the All-Wales Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Summer Meeting in Swansea yesterday. Our work was represented through three poster presentations from Sam Bird, Susan Peirce, and Paul Rogers, covering the following topics:

We're proud to be part of the LARS Collaborative, working to improve the quality of life for those affected by Low Anterior Resection Syndrome. CEDAR’s work is helping to build the evidence needed for better colorectal care. Read more: larscollaborative.com/who-we-are/ #LARS #ColorectalCancer

NICE has published new health technology evaluation guidance (HTE26) on drug-eluting stents. CEDAR was the External Assessment Group behind this work. Full guidance here: nice.org.uk/guidance/hte26 #NICEGuidance #CardiacStent #CEDARCardiff @nicecomms.bsky.social

🆕️ Just published! NICE has released Health Technology Evaluation Guidance on slide sheets for moving or repositioning a person (HTE23). CEDAR was the External Assessment Group behind this work. Read the full guidance: nice.org.uk/guidance/hte23 #NICEguidance #SlideSheets #HTA

(1/2) Great to showcase our collaborative work at #ASGBI2025 in Edinburgh this week! Surgical Research Fellow, Miss Jennifer Waterman, is presenting three ePosters detailing our project in partnership with Cardiff & Vale Shaping Change team, part of the Endoscopy Challenge Fund. @asgbi.bsky.social

Mewn pryd ar gyfer #DiwrnodLwpwsYByd, rydym yn falch i gyflwyno cyhoeddiad adroddiad Gwerthuso Gwasanaeth Lwpws GIG Cymru. 💜🦋 Mae'r gwaith hwn yn cyflwyno profiadau dros 280 o bobl sy'n byw gyda lwpws a 17 o glinigwyr ledled Cymru. Darllenwch ef yma: executive.nhs.wales/news/execnew...

In time for #WorldLupusDay, we’re delighted to announce the publication of the NHS Wales Lupus Service Evaluation report. 💜🦋 This work brings together the experiences of over 280 people living with #lupus and 17 clinicians across Wales. Read it here: cedar.nhs.wales/our-work/eva...

Cardiff Castle shines purple tonight for #WorldLupusDay, and the sky over the city is putting on a show to match! 💜🦋 #Lupus #CardiffCastle @lupusuk.bsky.social

Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge @zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

Endoscopy Challenge, part 2 (Eng subs)

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A perfect Welsh spring day for the Wales Cancer Research Conference at the ICC in Newport, with some really fascinating talks.....and a fantastic lunch selection! #CancerResearch