Swansea Bay Health News

The sooner you get tested for HIV, the sooner your condition can be treated if you prove positive.

A keen runner inspired by her best friend’s recovery from a car accident has raised nearly £2,500 to help the rehabilitation of brain injury patients.

Ellie Lane was enjoying pantomime Swansea Grand Theatre when she received a call telling her she needed go to hospital immediately.

A major transformation of Swansea Bay’s primary care audiology services will deliver quicker specialist access for patients all across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, and help free up GP time.

A new group offering support for people living with dementia and their carers has been set up in the Swansea Valley.

Around 28,000 new patients are set to be offered appointments at dental practices in Swansea Bay by April 2023.

When you have two model staff working on the same hospital team you could say it’s a small world – and you’d be right in more ways than one.

A woman who once conquered the world’s tallest free-standing mountain was left struggling to walk her dog after being diagnosed with long Covid.

Hook a duck, ring toss and tin can alley aren’t usual methods of treatment, but they proved the perfect tonic when an old-fashioned funfair rolled up at Neath Port Talbot Hospital.

A new clinic has drastically reduced the number of appointments needed for expectant mothers with epilepsy.

A burns patient has issued a warning to anyone thinking of reaching for a hot water bottle this winter as the fuel crisis bites.

A Swansea Bay NHS worker who faces an uncertain future having developed complications following Covid is urging people to get the autumn booster vaccination.

Staff in Swansea Bay are prescribing antibiotics in a more targeted way to help reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance and unpleasant side effects in patients.

Family holidays are taking a back seat to saving lives for a Swansea surgeon who spent his summer in Pakistan operating on poor people including Afghan refugees.

Pupils in Morriston Primary School have been examining a mock ‘crime scene’ in order to arrest the number of falls amongst the elderly.

The writing could soon be on the wall for thousands of appointment letters Swansea Bay mails out to patients every year.

The family of a former Morriston Hospital patient has gone to great lengths – including cycling from south to north Wales in record time - to raise over £20,000 for cancer research in Swansea Bay.  

Being told your baby is deaf must be heart-breaking but Tara Thomas is full of praise for the way Swansea Bay’s audiology team has helped her daughter adjust.