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Princess of Wales heart failure specialist nurse, Moira Ashton, has been nominated by the patient community and won a ‘You’re Simply Marvellous’award.

Patients in Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend are among the first in Wales to have received the new Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in their own doctors’ surgeries.

We would like to welcome to our new Interim Chief Operating Officer, Gareth Robinson, who has joined CTM UHB. Gareth brings a wealth of experience to the role having held a number of senior operational and executive positions in the NHS and related organisations. Most recently, Gareth joins us from his role as Managing Director of Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Creative writing and art sessions have been helping patients and staff manage their wellbeing, by allowing them to tell their stories and share experiences.

As part of its journey towards rigorous improvements in its maternity services, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB has made an official response to the thematic report published today, January 25, by the Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (IMSOP).

Whole area testing with lateral flow device (LFD) tests in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley is estimated to have prevented 353 cases of COVID-19, 24 hospitalisations, 5 Intensive Care Unit admissions and 14 deaths, according to a new report.

A brand new primary care centre will open its doors in Mountain Ash next week, bringing modern healthcare services to the local community.

A year after opening a permanent Ambulatory Emergency Surgical Unit (AESU) at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, treatment and assessment times have dramatically improved and there has been a reduction in the number of people needing to be admitted into hospital.

Firstly, we would like to thank you all for your patience and understanding over our reserve list.

A huge well done to 19-year-old Ben Peever from Ferndale who set himself a challenge to run a half marathon(13.1 miles) throughout March to raise money for a C.A.R.E pack(compassion and respect for every loss)for bereaved families at Royal Glamorgan Hospital. 

An outdoors social enterprise boosting health and wellbeing in the Cynon Valley is joining forces with Cardiff University scientists to see whether nature really is the best medicine!

Online counselling and self-help resources are now available for 11-18 year olds across our Health Board, following a new partnership with award-winning digital mental health and wellbeing service Kooth.

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board will be held on Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 10:00 am.  

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.