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The team which ensured that frontline staff in our Health Board and beyond had essential PPE throughout the Covid-19 pandemic has won a prestigious award.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board are pleased to share the ‘Back to Community Life’ resources developed by Improvement Cymru and partners.

Latest YouGov research (on behalf of the Welsh Government) shows that people across our Cwm Taf Morgannwg communities, which includes Bridgend/Merthyr/Rhondda Cynon Taf, are getting used to turning to NHS 111 Wales online, or via the 111 phone line, as their first port-of-call when unwell. 

Work has now started on a new £10.7m health centre in Bridgend.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is currently seeking a new Chair of the Health Board.

This week Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board was honoured to be recognised by the Armed Forces for our work alongside them over the course of the pandemic.

Our older persons’ mental health team from Bridgend’s Angelton Clinic, recently held a virtual coffee morning to bring together staff from the unit and the families of service users. 

The walk-in clinics are at our Mountain Ash community vaccination centre on Thursday (June 24) and Friday (June 25).

Glaucoma patients in Merthyr are the first to trial a new primary care-based assessment service from Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB), the first of its kind in the UK.

During July 2021, the Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (IMSOP) is conducting a survey to understand the experiences of women and families using maternity and neonatal services in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area.

Staff, patients and their loved ones were delighted to receive a visit by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to the newly developed state-of-the–art palliative care unit in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this week  

Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB is seeking applications for a new Independent Member (General and Corporate Business) for its Board.

A beautiful bench created in memory of a father and his baby son has been unveiled in the grounds of the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, outside the department where the baby passed away. 

A community team in Bridgend is providing vital support to people who need help with their health and wellbeing responding to more than 4,000 calls during the past 10 months. 

Today (July 19) , the doors re-opened at Ty Enfys (previously day unit 2) in Keir Hardie Health Park and welcomed back service users to the state of the art unit.  Ty Enfys is a day unit based within Keir Hardie Health Park in Merthyr Tydfil and supports those living with dementia in the Merthyr and Cynon locality and their families. The unit is based on person-centred care and is filled with the things of life, activities and colours to keep people engaged and functioning to the optimum.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s health professionals have conducted over 17,500 video consultations (VCs) with patients over the past 11 months and, according to new research, both patients and clinicians are very positive about the service.

Yoga, gardening, bushcraft, chair aerobics, dance, mindfulness and walking are just some of the sessions being delivered by the Be Active RCT partnership project to help people across Rhondda Cynon Taf improve and maintain their physical and mental health. 

Glyncornel Nursing Home in Tonypandy have successfully completed the Six Steps to Success education programme supporting Palliative and End of Life Care supported by the Specialist Palliative Care Team in CTMUHB who piloted the programme as part of the Bevan Commissions Adopt and Spread Programme.