Health Board News

Welsh learners at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are celebrating after receiving top marks for their language skills.

Two keen runners at Ysbyty Gwynedd have raised over £4000 towards their ward through completing one of Europe’s toughest endurance challenges.

A pilot initiative to provide free fruit to children when they arrive in the children’s outpatients department has been launched in Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

A dental health champion at a Llangollen residential home is putting a smile on the face of residents thanks to help from the Health Board’s Community Dental Service team.

An Occupational Therapist who goes the extra mile for palliative care patients has won a North Wales NHS award.

The beginning of August marks the start of World Breastfeeding Week and two mums are spreading the word of just how important it can be, for both mother and baby.

The new hospital, which will be built next to the existing Royal Alexandra Hospital, will include modern, fit for purpose facilities for new and existing services at the site.

Ysbyty Alltwen’s Minor Injury Unit will remain open 24 hours a day to ensure the community can access non-urgent care until March 2020.

People who struggle to hold down a job because of mental health problems are being encouraged to take advantage of a new support service, which is the first of its kind in Wales.

Doctors in training have ranked Ysbyty Gwynedd’s Emergency Department as one of the best places to train in the UK.

A pioneering partnership to give families in north Wales choice of where their seriously ill child dies has been launched by Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospice and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Health and social care colleagues from across North Wales joined forces to share ideas and learning at a community care conference in Llandudno.

A psychologist from Wrexham Maelor Hospital has been selected as a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion, to help transform care for people living with diabetes in the area.

The fiancé of an Anglesey man who tragically died after suffering a brain haemorrhage has raised over £3,500 towards the Intensive Care Unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd.

A Llanfairfechan-based healthcare team have been shortlisted for a top national award for going “above and beyond” to enhance the quality of life for people with learning disabilities

Plans to introduce earlier support for people with mental health problems have been revealed by Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board.

Wrexham Maelor has become the first hospital in Wales to perform planned ‘same day discharge hip replacement surgery’.

A new ward which has improved the environment for patients and staff has officially opened at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl.