Mario Kreft MBE: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Founder and Chair of Wales Care Awards; Chair of Care Forum Wales
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Care home closures & provider failure, Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 10
- Most recently quoted
- 18 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“I want to use my experience to continue championing the sector and the fantastic people who make such a difference to the lives of vulnerable people every single day.”
What Mario Kreft MBE has said
“They don't want any acknowledgement other than to receive their pay check which is clearly insufficient for the valuable work they do to care for and protect the most vulnerable people in our society. ... provides a scaffold that sustains the NHS.”
CEO of Pendine Park · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 13 Oct 2026 · RECAP | LIC Awards 2026 Lifetime Achievement winner Mario Kreft MBE's victory speech: "It's been an incredible journey" ↗
“With the new Plaid government in Cardiff, there is an opportunity for a new beginning to highlight the fantastic work done by small and local businesses who provide the backbone of social care in Wales.”
Chair of Care Forum Wales · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 4 Oct 2026 · Welsh care homes vital, says social care expert ↗
“Without a shadow of doubt, lives were saved back in 2017 when the Caron Group rescued the home and prevent the need for residents to be moved.”
Chair of Care Forum Wales · Care home closures & provider failure · 30 Sept 2026 · Care home given a £7m luxury lifeline after being just 48 hours from closure ↗
“Ezelina is without doubt a trailblazer and she deserves every accolade. What she has done is a very important step forward and we need more people like Ezelina in the independent care sector. We must do more to make sure that residents in our sector don't have to go into hospital and don't necessarily have to have the GP called out, and that is why having prescribing nurses is such an important thing.”
Chair of Care Forum Wales · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 29 Sept 2026 · Care home nurse becomes first in Wales to qualify to prescribe medication ↗
“This is a blueprint for the social care sector going forward.”
Founder and Chair of Wales Care Awards; Chair of Care Forum Wales · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 29 Sept 2026 · First care home nurse in Wales to qualify to prescribe meds ↗
“International care workers are not a 'nice to have' – they are the backbone of many services across Wales. Take them away and the system simply doesn't function.”
Chair Care Forum Wales · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 29 Sept 2026 · Older people with dementia in Wales could be turned away as care homes warn: “Fix visa rules or face closures” ↗
“Given what happened to Cymryd Rhan, this could be a case of history repeating itself unless councils can provide funding for a rescue package to save Anheddau. Council leaders appear to not understand the difficulties in social care.”
Chair of Care Forum Wales · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · NI hikes put 400 jobs and support for disabled people under threat at care organisation ↗
“The fact that funding should reduce so sharply when a person's care needs are far more acute defies all logic. It is utterly ridiculous.”
Chairman of Care Forum Wales · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Seriously ill care home residents “penalised” as funding slashed by £5,000 ↗
“We believe passionately at Care Forum Wales that the people who legally come to this country to care for our most vulnerable people deserve our utmost respect and our support and we want to make sure we continue that.”
Chair of Care Forum Wales · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Welsh Health Minister defends migrant care workers amid Reform UK deportation threats ↗
Where Mario Kreft MBE has been quoted
- Owner of Pendine Park receives national lifetime achievement awardnorthwalespioneer.co.uk · 18 Oct 2026
- RECAP | LIC Awards 2026 Lifetime Achievement winner Mario Kreft MBE's victory speech: "It's been an incredible journey"carehomeprofessional.com · 13 Oct 2026
- Welsh care homes vital, says social care expertcambrian-news.co.uk · 4 Oct 2026
- Care home given a £7m luxury lifeline after being just 48 hours from closurecarehomeprofessional.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Care home nurse becomes first in Wales to qualify to prescribe medicationwales247.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- First care home nurse in Wales to qualify to prescribe medsnursingtimes.net · 29 Sept 2026
- Older people with dementia in Wales could be turned away as care homes warn: “Fix visa rules or face closures”herald.wales · 29 Sept 2026
- NI hikes put 400 jobs and support for disabled people under threat at care organisationcarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Seriously ill care home residents “penalised” as funding slashed by £5,000carehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Welsh Health Minister defends migrant care workers amid Reform UK deportation threatscarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
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