Health and Care Research Wales Conference 2024

Registration is now open!

The Health and Care Research Wales Conference will be taking place 10 October 2024 at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. 

Further information including exhibitor, agenda for the day and details about our speakers will be added as they become available.

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Call for abstracts now open.

We are inviting submissions for TED-style talks for the conference on the theme Research Matters. 

We are on a mission to explore why research matters to you, as the ones driving the change and shaping the future of health and social care. This call for abstracts is open to everyone within the research world. Whether you're an experienced researcher or a newcomer to the field, NHS staff, academic, industry professional or someone involved in research we want to hear your insights, experiences and visions for the future. 

Closing date: 17:00 on 26 July 2024 

Awards now open for applications

Help us celebrate Welsh research excellence!

The Awards are open to all health and social care researchers in Wales, including health professionals, social care practitioners, allied health professionals and wider affiliated research teams.

Closing date: 17:00 on 15 July 2024

Speakers confirmed:

Owain Clarke, BBC Cymru Wales - Chair

Owain Clarke has been BBC Cymru Wales’ Health Correspondent since July 2012. He works on TV, radio and online in both Welsh and English, and also contributes to the BBC’s UK - wide news programmes. Before becoming Health Correspondent, Owain spent more than 10 years working in the politics team, as a correspondent at Westminster and reporter in Cardiff Bay.

 

Professor Kieran Walshe, Director Health and Care Research Wales

Kieran Walshe is Director of Health and Care Research Wales and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Alliance Manchester Business School.

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Eluned Morgan, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Eluned Morgan was elected to the National Assembly in May 2016 as regional member for Mid & West Wales. In November 2017 Eluned was appointed Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning. On 13 December 2018 she was appointed Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language which she held until becoming Minister for Mental Health, Wellbeing and the Welsh Language on 8 October 2020. Eluned was appointed Minister for Health and Social Services on 13 May 2021, and re-appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on 21 March 2024.