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We’re kick-starting 2023 by bringing together local residents and community groups from Maesteg, and the wider valleys communities, to help shape the future of health and care in Maesteg.

RSV causes between 400-600 deaths in older adults and over 1,000 hospital admissions in young babies in Wales every year. The new RSV vaccination programme launched this week will provide protection against the most common childhood respiratory infection for the first time in Wales.

Every year on September 13, we join organisations and individuals around the world to mark World Sepsis Day.

From 16th – 20th September, we will be running a series of information stalls across Cwm Taf Morgannwg focused on preventing falls.

An art project supported by staff, patients and the local community to help Cwm Taf Morgannwg breast cancer patients has been completed

Our Health Board Chaplaincy Service, together with our Arts in Health Service, have started (October 5) an innovative pilot aimed at supporting people through grief, death and loss through the use of creative arts.

Beginning on Monday 2 September, we will be undertaking some urgent and essential improvement works to our neonatal and maternity units at Princess of Wales Hospital.

CTM UHB staff from Royal Glamorgan Hospital and Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda raised over £2,000 for the Cwm Taf Morgannwg NHS Charity and local patients, by hiking the three highest mountain peaks in Wales this summer.

A free All Wales Speech and Language Therapy Careers event will be held online on Friday 11^th October from 8:45am-12:00pm.

A team of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board staff in the Care for the Elderly wards at Princess of Wales hospital have partnered with Daring to Dream

The Sensory Garden at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon has recently undergone a revamp. Having long been used as a place to display memorial plaques, the team at the hospital sourced donations to help breathe new life into the area.

A pilot project in south Wales is aiming to improve support for people who are waiting for psychological therapies.

Reviews into suspected patient safety incidents of healthcare-acquired (nosocomial) COVID-19 during the onset of the pandemic have concluded their initial investigation, following a national programme of work to coordinate investigations of the unusually high number of incidents recorded.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s Strategic Goals include

Due to essential maintenance on our computerised systems we unfortunately have to cancel all integrated sexual health clinics on Friday 16 August, 2024.

Over the past few months, staff and young people at Ty Llidiard Children’s Mental Health Inpatient Unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital have been refreshing one of the patient gardens – painting a mural, adding garden ornaments, planting flowers and growing food.

The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales’ latest information guide is available here

The Value Based Healthcare team at CTM is excited to announce a major initiative to enhance patient outcomes and experiences across the health board.