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HIW register most private dental practices unconditionally. If a dental team requires additional skills/experience to perform certain treatments and this increases a dental team’s scope of practice, HIW may add conditions to the practice’s registration.

How we will work with the Royal College of Midwives (RCM)

How we will work with Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) NHS Wales Performance and Improvement

Each quarter, we share our latest news and highlight the key themes and learning emerging from our work. It is part of our commitment to better understand our stakeholders’ expectations, proactively engage, share our findings and report on our activity

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The inspection, which took place between 9 and 11 February 2026, assessed the local authority's social services and health board's performance in exercising their statutory duties and functions.

Each year HIW publishes an annual report setting out our key findings from the regulation, inspection and review of healthcare services in Wales.

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Information about the changes to regulation and new inspection framework we are developing for childcare services.

The new framework applies to the inspection of adult services.

We inspect NHS services and regulate independent healthcare providers against a range of standards, policies, guidance and regulations to highlight areas requiring improvement.

At Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW), we play a key role in improving the quality and safety of healthcare across Wales.

At Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW), working together with other organisations supports us to do our job better.