 Hello, my name is Andrew Goodall, I'm the NHS Wales Chief Executive and I hope that I had the opportunity to see some of you at previous staff events. I just wanted to give you an update on where we stand on health education and improvement Wales and look I've worked in the NHS for many years, too many years to remember, but actually this organisation, its creation is probably one of the most important structural changes that we have been looking to introduce on behalf of the NHS Wales system. As a national organisation it places education and skills of our workforce into one single organisation and the benefit for me is to ensure that we take the best of these three very successful organisations and have an advantage in bringing together their skills and experience into one place. Whilst being one of the most important changes that we are taking forward this means that it is an environment which has many challenges, there are lots of risks for us to understand but we need a clear way forward on the advice of the programme board and I would want to reassure all of you that at a level of detail we are working through as a programme board a whole range of issues ranging from finance, from ICT, the structures that we need in place, location and of course some of the detailed arrangements that need to be in place for the transfer of staff but we are clear that we will be looking to establish this organisation on safe and proper grounds and we will be looking to give some advice on the clear timetable for this as we go into the new year. There remains much to do in a short time scale but I do want to give you some assurance about progress that we are making so I know you will be aware about the arrangements in place for an interim chair which is through Dr Chris Jones. I am also pleased to report that we have now been able through a national process been able to appoint the chief executive of the organisation Alex Howells and Alex will be giving you some personal reflections as part of this video message but we have also had to put in some practical mechanisms to support the work of the programme board so there is now a transition management team in place that includes representatives of the different organisations making up this new organisation and I will again have expectations at a level of detail that they give us good advice on the actions necessary but have a really important role in liaising and linking with you as staff in terms of your expectations for this organisation and as part of that will be to continue to communicate to you. Moving into the new year we will be looking to make an announcement about the intended location for HEIW. I know that is an important issue for staff and it is important that we ensure that you are aware of our proposals very quickly and also we will be able to let you know about other appointments that have been made to the board and also our process in place to make sure that executive appointments are made as well. So I would just like to finish by once again acknowledging the patients that you have demonstrated in this process. It is a large task to set up a new organisation and we need to maintain the existing tasks and duties in the interim period of time. Thank you for your professionalism. I do have confidence that we are going to be able to establish this organisation to meet the expectations that we have for a better workforce for the health and social care system and finally I would just like to wish you the best. I hope you have some time for a break over the Christmas and New Year period and we will be coming back and letting you know about the progress in the New Year. Thank you very much for listening. Hi, my name is Alex Howells and I've just recently been appointed as the first chief executive for health education and improvement Wales and I'm really excited and looking forward to starting the new role in the New Year. I've got 28 years experience in the NHS and I see this new organisation as a massive opportunity to really help create and develop the workforce for today and the future so I'm really looking forward to the challenges ahead and to working with all of you. I'll be taking up the new role on 1 February and one of my first priorities will be to meet as many staff in the existing organisations as I can. This is really important to me because I think that staff engagement involvement will be a critical part of the success of the new organisation and it's really important that we start in the way that we mean to go on. I've been really encouraged by the number of people who've contacted me already to tell me about their ideas for the new organisation, whether they be staff within the existing organisations or people from stakeholder and partner organisations and I'd encourage anybody to do that. Just drop me a line or give me a call at any time. I'm obviously going to be attending the staff event on 11 January and the stakeholder event on 12 January so I hope to meet a lot of you at those events and in the meantime I hope you have a great Christmas and I look forward to working with you in 2018.