About us
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Velindre University NHS Trust was established in 1994 and is one of 12 statutory health organisations in Wales. The Trust’s core purpose is to provide specialist blood and cancer health services to the people of Wales. We also deliver a number of other services on behalf of the NHS in Wales as a host.
Velindre Cancer Service
The Velindre Cancer Service delivers specialist cancer services for Wales (mostly in the south east) using a hub and spoke model and provides a specialist treatment, teaching, research and development centre for non-surgical oncology. We treat patients with chemotherapy, Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatments (SACTs), radiotherapy and related treatments, together with caring for patients with specialist, acute and palliative care needs.
Welsh Blood Service
The Welsh Blood Service is a national service playing a fundamental role in the delivery of healthcare. It works to ensure that the donor’s gift of blood is transformed into safe and effective blood components, which allow NHS Wales to improve the quality of life and save the lives of many thousands of people in Wales every year. We provide an antenatal screening service to several hospitals and offer all customer hospitals specialist laboratory services to assist in the investigation of complex serological problems. The Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory, within the Welsh Blood Service, provides direct support to local providers of Renal and Stem Cell Transplant Services. It also operates a national panel of unrelated potential blood and stem cell donors – the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry. The Trust also delivers services through its hosted services and programmes – Shared Services, Heath Technology Wales (HTW) and Advanced Therapies Wales.
NHS Wales Shared Services (Shared Services)
The Trust was given the statutory responsibility to manage and provide Shared Services in 2012, supporting the 12 statutory bodies of NHS Wales through the provision of a comprehensive range of support functions, classed as technical, administrative and professional services. The team who deliver these are employed by the Trust, and the Velindre Trust Shared Services Committee (also known as the Shared Services Partnership Committee) brings together the partnership of statutory organisations that commission these services.
Health Technology Wales
Health Technology Wales (HTW) was established in 2017 by Welsh Government. As the host body, the Trust receives grant funding to deliver the HTW services under the ‘Efficiency through Technology Programme’. HTW was established to facilitate the timely adoption of clinically and cost-effective health technologies in Wales, working with, but independently of, NHS Wales. Its remit covers all health technologies that are not medicines.
Advanced Therapies Wales
The Trust employs a team to deliver the Advanced Therapies Wales Programme which is funded by Welsh Government. Along with the Genomics, Pathology and Imaging programmes, it forms an integral part of the Welsh Precision Medicine portfolio.
