Swansea Bay University Health Board

Anita Steel in blue scrubs smiling beside a robotic surgery machine in a hospital theatre.

MORRISTON: The scrub nurse who has served the NHS for 52 years — and was handed her qualification by the future King

A supermarket chat at 17 set Anita Steel on a path to…

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Dentist wearing gloves and mask looking into a patient’s open mouth with dental tools during examination.

Health and Care

NHS DENTIST: New practice to open in Neath as contract reforms reshape access across Swansea Bay

A new NHS dental practice is set to open in Neath town…

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Kit Peters

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Exterior view of Morriston Hospital in Swansea, showing the main building and entrance area.

MORRISTON: Crane lift weekend approaches as £10m vascular hybrid theatre takes shape — the latest milestone in a quiet decade-long Morriston transformation

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Kit Peters

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Malcolm Sims, a man in his seventies wearing a black puffer jacket, shorts and a cap, walks across a garden lawn with a small dog on a lead. A black device is visible on his lower leg.

GOWER: ‘Jayne is a fast walker — and I can keep up with her now’ — how a Kittle man’s Parkinson’s trial is helping him stride out again

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Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Midwife Michael Nixon in navy scrubs stands on the left alongside Liam John leaning over Shania Jenkins who is lying in a hospital bed, with midwife Leanne Daniel in navy scrubs on the right, all smiling at the camera in a hospital room.

SWANSEA: ‘We couldn’t say his name without getting emotional’ — the Singleton midwife so kind that parents named their baby after him

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Kit Peters

5 Min Read

The Morriston Hospital cardiology team with the Volt PFA system. From left: Monica Angeles, Melissa Madden, Lizzie Murphy, Eve Burns-Thomas, Anne-Marie Davies, Tamsin de Bude, Dr Dewi Thomas, Emily Church, Sam Peddie, Harry Mahoney and Claire Warren. Image: Swansea Bay University Health Board

SWANSEA: Morriston Hospital becomes first in Wales to perform pioneering heart procedure using cutting-edge pulse technology

Morriston Hospital's cardiology team, led by Dr Dewi Thomas, has become the…

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Kit Peters

6 Min Read

Alanna and Simon Rooke with baby Franklyn

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‘I told them she was nine months pregnant and she might die’ — Swansea mum gives birth in A&E during cardiac emergency

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Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Metal shutters cover the windows at Gorseinon Hospital

Gorseinon Hospital bosses make personal pledge to councillors: ‘We are not closing this hospital’

Swansea Bay University Health Board’s Chair and Chief Executive have given councillors…

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Kit Peters

4 Min Read

Wyn Thomas from Gower with his two sons, who benefited from pioneering cancer drug treatment at Swansea Bay

Swansea Bay doctors pioneer cancer drug breakthrough that could extend lives across Wales

Dozens of cancer patients in Wales are being given the chance to…

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Kit Peters

6 Min Read

Daytime architectural rendering of the planned National Institute for Sport and Health at Sketty Lane, with a modern glass building overlooking the athletics track.

£150m sport and health superhub breaks ground at Sketty Lane

Work has begun on a £150 million sport and health superhub at…

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Kit Peters

3 Min Read

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