Evidence and research

• Pre-school vaccination survey insight 2025

  Background  Childhood vaccination rates in Wales have declined over the past decade, with further disruption following the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining high vaccination uptake is essential to protect children from serious […]

• Maternal vaccination survey insights 2025 

  Background  Maternal vaccination is an important public health intervention that helps protect both pregnant women and their babies from serious illnesses, including whooping cough (pertussis), influenza (flu) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus […]

• Quality Manual 2026

  The policy, standards and protocols have been replaced with the Quality Manual. The Quality Manual is a digital resource, hosted on the Screening Information for Professionals site.

• Understanding the health risks and impacts of the use of private water supplies in Wales

  This rapid evidence review aimed to inform the future work of Public Health Wales (PHW) by improving understanding of the health risks and harms associated with the use of PWS […]

• Beyond the barrier: Public and healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards non-sterile glove use in Welsh healthcare settings

  This report explores attitudes towards single use non-sterile gloves (referred to as gloves here on in) in healthcare settings across Wales, specifically how and when different population groups perceive it […]

• Wales Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening programme annual statistical report 2023 to 2024

  This report covers the time period from April 2023 to March 2024. With uptake defined as those invited in the year April 2023 to March 2024 receiving an ultrasound scan […]

• Oral health of school year one children in Wales 2024 to 2025

  This is a summary of the NHS Wales Dental Epidemiological Programme’s inspection of school year one (5-year-old) children undertaken across Wales in 2024-25

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board oral health of 5 year old children in 2024 to 2025

  1,761 children in school year 1 were examined from 101 state-maintained schools across Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

• Betsi Cadwalladr University Health Board Oral health of 5 year old children in 2024 to 2025

  1,993 school year 1 children were examined from 165 state-maintained schools across Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

• Cardiff and Vale University Healthboard Aneurin Bevan Health Board Oral health of 5 year old children in 2024 to 2025

  913 children were examined from 84 state-maintained schools across Cardiff & Vale University Health Board.