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Volunteers unable to support patients face to face during lockdown have turned to craft to mark a Remembrance Day with a difference. Beautiful poppy wreaths, individual knitted poppies and handmade cards have been created to boost the wellbeing of patients affected by COVID-19 and the staff looking after them.

We are investing in significant building and refurbishment works in the Emergency Department at Princess of Wales Hospital, with the aim of improving services for everyone accessing the Department.

Earlier this week (16 January), Dewi Sant Health Park in Pontypridd received a Blue Plaque to commemorate the Health Park’s location on the former site of Pontypridd Union Workhouse.  

Maternity Services at CTM this week scooped the 'Faculty of the Year' award at the from ever PROMPT Wales award ceremony.

We were delighted yesterday to celebrate three management graduate trainees mark the end of their first two placements on the management programme; leading onto their final placement with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).

Public Health experts are reminding parents in Wales to keep children away from school if they are unwell and have a fever, following an increase in illnesses like flu. It’s one of a number of simple steps parents can take to protect their child and to minimise the spread of winter illnesses when children return to schools and nurseries in Wales next week.

Today we have issued the following media statement regarding the unprecedented pressures we are working under across our hospital sites.

The care and safety of our patients is – and will always be – our main priority.

A Cwm Taf Morgannwg Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 King’s New Year Honours.

Children from Fochriw Primary School visited the Paediatric Emergency Department to take a look at the Christmas tree that they and their class mates helped to create.

On December 9, one of our CTM General Practice Nurses, Janette Morgan won the prestigious National Practice Nurse Award at the General Practice Awards, in London

Moondance Cancer Initiative has announced more than half a million pounds is to be given to seven projects led by teams from across NHS Wales as part of its latest funding round to improve cancer outcomes in Wales.

The Trauma and Orthopaedic department at the Princess of Wales Hospital at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board has won a MediWales Innovation Award 2022 in the ‘NHS Wales Working with Industry Award’ category.

We’re excited to be inviting people and groups from Maesteg and the wider valleys communities to come together in early January 2023 to help shape the future of health and care in Maesteg.

Earlier this month, at the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) Excellence in People Awards, CTM UHB was excited to be shortlisted for two significant awards.