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With the days warming up and summer peeking over the horizon, it really feels like we’ve started to turn a corner from an incredibly difficult few months for all of us.

I remember seeing a lady for her vaccination at lunchtime.  Her husband had been in hospital and had died from COVID that very morning. 

Heart failure is a condition that is associated with high mortality and hospital admission rates in the UK and puts significant stress on NHS services. In fact, heart failure takes up 2% of the annual NHS budget.

CTM UHB is now starting a new phase of its COVID-19 vaccination programme and making plans on how and where vaccines will be offered to its communities in the future.

Find out more about the new state-of-the-art MRI scanner at Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB is currently looking for expressions of interest from people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf to join its Partnership Panel.

Today April 6, 2022, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, along with all Health Boards in Wales, launches the All Wales Dementia Friendly Hospital Charter.

From Monday 11 April, a single individual will also be able to visit our antenatal and postnatal wards for four hour sessions each day.

Thanks to the efforts of everyone in our localities, we have seen a reduction in the rates of transmission of COVID-19 in our communities and hospitals across CTM.

We are now pleased to be able to reintroduce increased visiting across our Maternity Services.

Expectant parents or those whose babies are born with Down’s syndrome across Cwm Taf Morgannwg, will now receive a ‘Seren Dwt’ box thanks to two mums who have set about changing the support available for parents in Wales.

Working with local authority and third sector partners, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB is changing the way people living with advanced dementia in Bridgend are supported to maintain their independence.

Dr Fiona Jenkins, Director of Therapies and Health Sciences at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) was officially awarded an MBE at Windsor Castle on the 9^th of February 2022 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

The statue of Elaine Morgan, a permanent immortalisation in bronze of the celebrated daughter of the South Wales Valleys, will be unveiled in a special ceremony on Friday March 18th, 2022, outside Meddygfa Glan Cynon Surgery in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf.

St David’s Street Surgery in Ton Pentre, and Llwynypia Surgery, Llwynypia, will become one practice from 1 April 2022.

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board will be held on Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 10:00 am. 

A new series of films about the daily lives and challenges of people living with dementia has been made using eye-tracking and facial expression recognition technology. 

And the unique Lee Gardens Pool project will be able to help even more people in future as a £500,000 redevelopment project is due for completion this summer, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund with support from the Landfill Tax Communities Scheme and The Welsh Church Act.