Swansea Bay University Health Board

Entrance to Morriston Hospital during a period of high demand and infection‑related pressures.
Claire Archibald MS

MORRISTON: Scabies reaches Morriston Hospital as MS counts three outbreaks in a month

Swansea Bay University Health Board has confirmed a small number of cases and restricted visiting on some wards, without saying…

Traitors star Andrew Jenkins holding freshly harvested vegetables alongside two Cae Felin volunteers holding squashes and onions, with the farm and open countryside behind them
Andrew Jenkins

MORRISTON: Traitors star joins mental health patients on the farm behind the hospital that saved him

Andrew Jenkins harvested veg with inpatients from Tawe Clinic at Cae Felin, the seven-acre farm hidden behind Morriston Hospital.

A doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope holds a tablet computer while a patient looks on
Castle Surgery

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Three GP surgery websites could vanish “at any time” after the firm behind them collapsed

Patients at Mount Surgery, Castle Surgery and Victoria Gardens are being told how to order repeat prescriptions and sick notes…

Entrance to the Emergency Department at Morriston Hospital during a period of exceptional pressure.
Hywel Dda NHS

NHS WAITS: Minister admits figures are ‘not good enough’

The Welsh waiting list has grown for a fifth month and Hywel Dda's two-year waits have more than trebled in…

Maria Bailey and two others holding armfuls of pink Bailey's Bags backpacks outside the Swansea Bay Health Charity office
cervical cancer

BAILEY’S BAGS: Maria hoped to raise £500 for chemo grab bags. She’s passed £4,000

She finished her own treatment in August. Now the bags she packed during it are reaching women just starting theirs.

Five people holding a large Swansea Bay Health Charity cheque for £500 in front of a dartboard at Pontarddulais Conservative Club
bowel cancer

PONTARDDULAIS: The £2 Sunday quiz that has put £16,250 into Swansea’s hospitals

When Eirwyn and Hilary Evans's team won the right to choose where the latest £500 went, they split it between…

The single-storey surgery building in Gwaun Cae Gurwen, partly hidden behind a large tree, with cars parked outside
Amman Tawe

GWAUN CAE GURWEN: More than eight in ten patients can’t get a GP appointment when they need one, inspectors told

Inspectors also found out-of-date emergency kit and a urine sample in the vaccine fridge. The area's Lib Dem MP calls…

Andrew Jenkins and physiotherapist Clare Ford smiling together at Morriston Hospital.
Andrew Jenkins

MORRISTON: ‘It’s where my life was saved’: Traitors star returns to say thank you

Andrew Jenkins has reunited with physiotherapist Clare Ford, who helped him recover from devastating crash injuries long before his appearance…

Brad Griffiths, a bearded man in glasses and a white T-shirt, standing at a front door wearing a pink patterned prosthetic right arm
Amputee

AMPUTATION: ‘I didn’t want to leave the house’: the crash survivor a new Morriston course got living again

Former soldier Brad Griffiths lost his right arm in a three-lorry crash near Whitland. A new online course for amputees…

Five people leaning on a glass balcony rail outside the stone-fronted Mansion House in Swansea
Cllr Penny Matthews

SWANSEA: “He saved three people’s lives that night”: the families who said yes to organ donation, thanked at the Mansion House

Phillip Gamble and Judy Finley each gave organs to three people. Their families were among those thanked by the health…

Aerial view of the red-brick Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea, a symmetrical complex of wards around a central water tower, with housing to one side and fields beyond
Cefn Coed Hospital

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…