Health and Care
CEFN COED: £27.9m to shore up the UK’s oldest working mental health hospital, and move Neath Port Talbot’s ward into it
The health board wants Welsh Government money to make its oldest mental health wards safe, and to bring Neath Port…
MENTAL HEALTH: Health board tells councillors half of Swansea Bay kids referred for specialist help sent elsewhere
CAMHS, the NHS mental health service for under-18s, told Swansea councillors in July that around one in two referrals is…
SWANSEA: Foster carers quitting faster than they join as children’s home placements double
Foster Wales Swansea lost 20 carers last year and signed up 11, and the council's own annual report shows fostering…
LLANELLI: Hospice trust wants 14 beds at Tŷ Bryngwyn. The health board says it can only safely run four
The town's hospice has been limited to four beds since a 2023 fire safety review, Hywel Dda has confirmed, days…
BRIDGEND: Joely hid a lump on her back for years. In Florida this summer she wore the bikini
Mental health counsellor Joely McNamara was told her eight-centimetre lipoma was harmless and would not be removed on the NHS.…
BROKEN PROMISES: Swansea Bay health board fails to deliver waiting-list fixes
A man lost his chance of knee surgery after his waiting time was wrongly reset. Now Swansea Bay health board…
SWANSEA: Regatta painting up for auction as cancer appeal sails past £200,000
Jeff Phillips went to the Lord Mayor's Regatta with his camera and came back with an oil painting of the…
GORSEINON HOSPITAL: The beds were coming back by March, then by September. Now the plan is that they never do
Swansea Bay's health board wants to permanently move Gorseinon Hospital's 30 inpatient beds to Singleton, promising an expanded community health…
IVF: A month after every new treatment stopped at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, couples are getting a restart date
The Wales Fertility Institute stopped taking new IVF treatments in August after staff absence left it unable to meet its…
SWANSEA: £15m cancer scanner centre rising at Singleton, with first patients in early 2027
A permanent PET-CT scanning centre is being built at the South West Wales Cancer Centre, replacing the mobile unit that…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: County lands £2.1m for care housing, but where it goes is a secret for now
The Welsh Government has confirmed to Swansea Bay News that £2.1m of today's £2.3m Housing with Care Fund announcement comes…