A pioneering optometry scheme is reducing hospital referrals and allowing patients to be treated closer to home during the pandemic.
People living across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board area are being reminded that today marks just one week until hospital grounds become smoke-free.
Entries in a photography competition showcasing many of the natural beauty spots across our Health Board are now ready to be judged – and we need your help!
Use of innovative, new video technology has been helping elderly residents in the South Wales valleys to become more involved in decisions regarding their own care.
Well done to Zoe Williams who represented CTMUHB in the first International Dementia Conference to be held in Wales
he Welsh Government’s Health Minister has confirmed that a Community Testing programme of asymptomatic people, will commence across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board area from Wednesday, March 3.
Appointment letters for second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are now landing on doormats across Cwm Taf Morgannwg.
New services introduced by the NHS during the Covid pandemic have led more than a third of people living in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board area (36%) to reconsider how they will seek help for non-urgent healthcare issues in the future – but just 13% say they will contemplate using alternative ways to seek urgent medical help.
A Bridgend woman in her seventies who repeatedly considered ending her life during lockdown has praised the services of BAVO (Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations) Community Navigator scheme, describing her contact there as “an angel without wings”.
This article first appeared on the Royal College of Physicians website. You can find out more about the RCP’s work in Wales here.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board has achieved its target of giving 104,148* vaccines to the top four priority groups.