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NHS Wales Performance and Improvement

NHS Wales Performance and Improvement is a national support function, operational from 1 April, 2023. 

Our key purpose is to: 

Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

NHS Wales Performance and Improvement will provide strong leadership and strategic direction – enabling, supporting and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.

We will do this through:

  • Strengthening national leadership and support for quality improvement
  • Providing more central direction to ensure a consistent and equitable approach to national and regional planning based on outcomes
  • Enabling stronger performance management arrangements, including capacity to challenge and support organisations that are not operating as expected.
  • NHS Wales Performance and Improvement is not a new organisation.

We are a hybrid function bringing together multiple national teams that already existed in the NHS in Wales to work together on performance and improvement.