Quick Guides

Quick guides look at complex or technical topics, and provide easily understood guides to these topics.

• Childhood Obesity
  
  January 2012
  This quick guide provides an overview of the childhood obesity problem in Wales and the measures the Welsh Government has taken to deal with the problem.

• Continuing NHS Healthcare for adults
  
  May 2011
  This quick guide provides an overview of how Continuing NHS Healthcare operates in Wales.

• Cross-border healthcare
  
  April 2012
  This quick guide sets out the arrangements for cross-border healthcare between England and Wales, including information on prescription charges.

• Dentistry
  
  May 2011
  This quick guide provides an overview to how dental services are provided for in Wales.

• Keeping Warm, Keeping Well: Key Statistics relating to cold weather and support for high risk groups
  
  December 2011
  This quick guide outlines and signposts useful sources of information and statistics on influenza immunisation uptake, cold weather payments, winter fuel payments, fuel poverty and winter mortality rates.

• Kinship care in Wales
  
  April 2012
  Wales has the highest proportion of children living with relatives other than birth parents in the UK and two-thirds of these ‘kinship carers’ are grandparents.  This Quick Guide looks at some of the issues, including a link with child poverty and the support available to kinship carers in Wales.

• Transition Planning for Disabled Children
  
  April 2012
  This Quick Guide looks at the issues in achieving successful transition into adulthood for Welsh disabled young people and considers the importance of multi-agency working.  The Welsh Government has sought to improve the process of transition planning for disabled young people and the consultation on the Social Services (Wales) Bill includes a proposal to give Welsh Ministers powers to specify what transitional services and assistance local authorities will be required to provide.