Swansea Bay Health News

Almost as many children aged 15 and under have been in hospital with Covid-19 in Swansea Bay over the last three months than the whole of the rest of the pandemic.

One of the linear accelerators at the Singleton Hospital centre will be replaced at a cost of £4 million

Proposals envisage Singleton Hospital as Swansea Bay's Centre of Excellence for planned surgery.

Staff in Swansea Bay’s headquarters can benefit from an environmental project to help promote well-being.

Three mental health nurses from Cefn Coed Hospital have turned to poetry to process their emotions of working through the pandemic.

Measures used in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot schools last term are to be retained.

As a member of our organ donation team an important part of Kathryn Gooding’s job is to help save lives by having difficult conversations many of us would rather shy away from.

A group of GP surgeries in Swansea is now offering yoga classes in a bid to improve patients’ symptoms.

There’s nothing worse than a long wait for surgery – unless it’s having your operation postponed at the very last minute.

Swansea Bay University Health Board is enhancing services and support for patients receiving palliative and end of life care and their families.

With Covid restrictions still very much in place in Morriston Hospital, a new scheme has been introduced to speed up outpatient traffic by asking patients to wait in the comfort of their own cars.

A life-saving service which was funded as a pilot in Swansea Bay has now secured NHS funding because of its success.

NHS services are currently affected by an international shortage of blood collection tubes used for taking some blood samples (blood tests).

People are being urged to take care when they are out socialising, as Covid cases are taking off again in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.

Music lovers from Swansea and Neath Port Talbot who attended the recent 50,000-strong Boardmasters music festival in Cornwall are being urged to get tested for Covid-19 straight away if they feel ill.

Community optometrists have taken pressure off hospital ophthalmology services by checking hundreds of people for conditions that could cause sight loss.

A Swansea Bay University Health Board team is celebrating an astronomical achievement. 

Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of Swansea Bay University Health Board will be held on Thursday, 19th August 2021 at 3pm via YouTube livestream.