National reviews and reports

This is the annual monitoring report by Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW), on the implementation of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) in Wales.

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) has published its Mental Health, Learning Disability Services and Mental Health Act Monitoring Annual Report 2024-2025, which outlines themes of our work for mental health and learning disability services across Wales.

Read the findings from our mental health hospitals, learning disability and Mental Health Act inspections during 2023-2024.

The aim of our review is to consider the practices in place when DNACPR decisions are applied to adult patients (over the age of 18), and whether patient views and considerations are respected.

Read the findings from our mental health hospitals, learning disability and Mental Health Act inspections during 2022-2023.

We committed to a reviews programme that takes into consideration the risks and challenges facing health services as they continue their response to, and recovery from, the pandemic. As a result, we decided to undertake a national review of Patient Flow.

In our Operational Plan 2019-2020, we committed to a programme of national reviews which included crisis in mental health.