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English Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) delivers excellent and innovative postgraduate medical and dental education for Wales. It provides nearly 3,000 training grade doctors and dentists across Wales with access to high quality postgraduate facilities and educational support so that they can achieve their career aspirations, whilst ensuring high quality care and patient safety in Wales.
Funded by the Welsh Government, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) works in partnership with local health boards in Wales. Ongoing investment provides some of the most modern medical and dental educational facilities within the UK.
HEIW’s Dental Postgraduate Section coordinates the delivery and funding of postgraduate dental education and training programmes across Wales and provides postgraduate and post registration education and training for Dentists and Dental Care Professionals in Wales, via our network of tutors and advisors. We offer Foundation Training Programmes, Core Training Programmes, Specialty Training Programmes (Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Special Care Dentistry, Restorative, Paediatric Dentistry, Dental Public Health, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Dental & Maxillofacial Radiology) and a wide range of continuing professional development courses for the dental team.
We also run training programmes for Dental Care Professionals, including a Welsh Dental Therapy Foundation Training Programme (WDTFT).
Our priority is to ensure that our Trainees and trainers/educational supervisors are competent and confident in their roles, providing high quality, safe patient care and high quality training programmes and learning environments which are both supportive and challenging to develop our future dental workforce.
The Wales NHS Constitution and NHS Values
NHS Wales is the publicly funded National Health Service of Wales providing healthcare to some 3 million people who live in the country. The NHS has a key principle which is that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth.
Health in Wales (http://www.wales.nhs.uk/) is the website of National Health Service (NHS) Wales, and brings together information sources about health services and the health and wellbeing of the population of Wales.
Setting health policy for the NHS in Wales and the funding for health services is the responsibility of the Welsh Government.