Our first COVID patient out of ITU at Prince Charles Hospital today. ❤️
Our multidisciplinary team at PCH are clapping their first patient out of ITU and returning to the ward. Great time work! Well done all!
There are now NO active adult cases of Covid-19 in the Royal Glam! 👏
Thank you to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone 🙏. Please follow the
#staylocal
rules for a while longer, to help our patients still recovering and keep these figures going in the right direction.
🐝We have a winner! Huge congratulations goes to CTM’s own breast surgeon Asmaa Al-allak who was announced as the winner of the Great British Sewing Bee last night. What a super star!
Wishing luck to our very own multi-talented CTM breast surgeon Asmaa Al-allak, as she competes in the finals of BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee next week. Congratulations on reaching the final Asmaa and good luck!
#SewingBee
😀 Today our mobile vaccination teams finished the last of their care homes in Cwm Taf Morgannwg.
Care home residents - dose 1 ✅
Care home staff - dose 1 ✅
What a job by amazing teams - thank you to every single one of you 💙
Our COVID-19 vaccination programme for front line staff starts this morning. A&E nurse Delyth Hogg was the very first person to receive the COVID vaccine at the Princess of Wales Hospital this morning 👏 👏 👏
Wonderful to have 2 patients discharged home after having treatment for Coronavirus in our HDU at Prince Charles Hospital.
Team member Tracy Davies said: “It was an amazing feeling for all staff and the patients to see them recover and go home. We all had tears of happiness.”
👏
If you need a reason to smile today - Staff member Melanie Lewis, who works in Prince Charles Hospital, filmed herself dropping off requested items to her parents' house in Pen-y-Darren, Merthyr Tydfil. Well done Mel, this is great! 👍 Video credit to Mel
Our additional critical care beds at Prince Charles Hospital are now fully set up - increasing capacity by 200% in the space of just under 3 days. Amazing effort from the team! Photo credit
@WelshGasDoc
It’s fantastic to see our first patient that came out of ITU at Prince Charles Hospital a few days ago going home from ward 3. Well done Jeff and all the very best for the future!
Wales remains in lockdown.
The rules haven’t changed.
Continue to
#StayHome
to stop the spread of coronavirus and save lives.
We are asking people to continue to support this clear message to protect lives in Wales.
Thank you.
And some more positive news as another patient has been discharged home after receiving treatment for Covid at Prince Charles Hospital. Sending our best wishes to them and their family and thank you to all the team who supported their recovery! 🌈👏❤️
Thank you so much to staff who stayed in our hospitals overnight after doing long shifts, so they could be ready for another one this morning. There are no words.
#NHSWales
We are extending our heartfelt appreciation to our district & community nurses. As always, they are standing strong and will continue to do so to protect & care for our most vulnerable patients in the community during an extremely testing time.We are incredibly proud of them!❤️
Helen Whatmore is being treated for COVID-19 in ITU in Royal Glamorgan Hospital. Please listen to what she has to say. COVID is not a hoax and our hospitals are NOT empty.
#HelpUsHelpYou
Our fantastic team in Maternity Services at Prince Charles Hospital had a royal treat today with a visit from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. . Read more:
We’re hearing increasing reports of abuse to our staff. Please support them at this difficult time. Abuse of our staff won’t be tolerated. Please
#BeKind
Tonight, in tribute to all those who lost their lives during the pandemic, we have lit up our three district general hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital, Royal Glamorgan Hospital and Princess of Wales hospital.
Our thoughts are with all bereaved family members this evening 💛 💛
What a lovely message for our staff! This amazing message has appeared on the road close to Prince Charles Hospital. We believe it to be the work of local company Barnaby Road Markings. Thanks to everyone involved for your ongoing support!
#staysafe
In the spirit of
#Covid19Kindness
we’d like to thank our staff for their dedication and professionalism as we put in place plans to respond to
#Coronavirus
. We’re all in this together and we’re extremely grateful for everything you’re doing.
Our tribute to thank all NHS staff during the covid pandemic displayed at the front of Royal Glamorgan Hospital. They have gone up across our sites 👏👏🌈
Another two patients have been discharged from our HDU at Prince Charles Hospital. We wish them all the best and thanks to the teams for their continued hard work to respond to Covid19 👏👏👏
A big thank you to
@CwmTafMorgannwg
Portering staff at PCH. Wayne, Steve and Mike are successfully managing our corridors to support the nursing teams to transfer our patients.
We're so proud of our Year 5 medical students, who held a socially-distanced
#graduation
ceremony to mark their achievements at Princess of Wales Hospital today!
We wish all our new
#doctors
the very best in their F1 placements 👏🎓
This poem has been written by one of our Consultant Physicians working on the wards in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. These words below express how the current restrictions and emotional impact are being felt so deeply on both sides. We really care for our patients and families 💙
❗️URGENT MESSAGE - Due to the ongoing incident at Treforest Ind Estate this evening, all of our emergency departments are currently on high alert. Please help us by not attending A & E unless absolutely necessary. We need to be able to provide care to those who need it the most.
A huge thank you to Seren Mai Howells for making these lovely colourful bags for
@CwmTafMorgannwg
nurses on the children's ward at RGH.
Our staff will be able to carry their uniforms home after a shift and put them straight into the washing machine along with the bag.
This should make you 'sit up' and take notice! Ten-year-old Rhys James, from Upperboat, did 70 sit ups every day in May, raising a fantastic £1,046 for our staff via Just Giving and in cash donations. Here he is with some of the items he bought for us - thank you so much Rhys!
A Royal Visit - Teams at Prince Charles Hospital were delighted to welcome His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales today as part of a special visit to thank NHS staff for their response to the COVID19 pandemic.
@hannahthomasitv
@ITVWales
URGENT REQUEST
Due to an increasing number of positive COVID19 cases we, along with
@RCTCouncil
&
@MerthyrCBC
are asking residents to take action to avoid a local lockdown in the near future. For information visit
#ClapforCarers
Thank you to all our staff, we’re so proud! Well done to teams at Royal Glamorgan Hospital who represented CTM on channel 4 news tonight too! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
❤ Roses are red,
💙Violets are blue,
📈 We've just checked our figures ...
💉 And we've vaccinated 105,581 of you! 😁
Happy Valentine's Day Cwm Taf Morgannwg 💖
Sadly some of our staff have had their cars vandalised overnight at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon. If anyone has information please let us or South Wales Police know. This is a very difficult time for our staff and this incident is very upsetting.
🔊We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Director of Midwifery, Gynae and Integrated Sexual Health. Suzanne Hardacre will be joining us soon and brings a wealth of experience of working in maternity services in Wales.
Read more here:
A local businessman has made and donated a stained glass Window of Gratitude to the staff of Princess of Wales Hospital
@CwmTafMorgannwg
for their dedication to patients and the NHS.
Thank you Richard
@rsgeleta
Amazing work by our vaccination teams to get vaccines to so many of our population - overcoming any challenges thrown at them in recent weeks, including snow ❄️ ! THANK YOU! 👏👏
Another milestone in the battle against COVID-19 reached today as our first patients received the Oxford vaccine at two of our GP surgeries. Many thanks to the team and patients
@Pontcae
for letting us film today’s vaccinations
Many congratulations to Dr Fiona Jenkins, our Interim Executive Director of Therapies and Health Sciences, who has been awarded an MBE for services to healthcare 👏
Joan Jenkins
@CwmTaf
oldest member of staff celebrates her 80th birthday today with friends and colleagues at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon. Joan you truly are a Cwm Taf Star!
We’re so proud of our fantastic team at CTM!
To mark a special day of staff recognition, we’ve illuminated our district general hospitals and Ysbyty'r Seren in rainbow colours this evening to reflect on the challenges and achievements of 2020.
#CTMatourbest
#diolch
Sadly we're hearing more reports of people being abusive to our staff, especially our contact tracers and those working on our vaccination helpline.
We don't tolerate any abuse of our staff. Please be kind and speak to them as you'd like to be spoken to. Thank you.
Thank you Royal Mint!
Cwm Taf Morgannwg would like to say thanks to the Royal Mint as the organisation starts to mass manufacture medical visors for the NHS to support the response to COVID19.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteer 4x4 drivers who have supported us in the last few days. They're now being stood down but we're so grateful for your support! 3/3
Great news ...
50% of you in Cwm Taf Morgannwg are now fully vaccinated 💉💉
85% of you have had your first dose 💉
In Llantrisant CVC today 👇 1000 people will come through the doors today and leave double-jabbed.
Thank you to everyone in getting this done! 👏
Our services continue to see really high levels of demand, and sadly we are starting to see COVID patients being admitted to our hospitals again.
We’re so grateful for all the support from our communities and the sacrifices which have been made over the past 18 months…
Well done Greg Dix, ED for Nursing who won the Chief Nursing Officers’ Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Nursing Times Awards. This award is jointly chosen by the 4 UK CNOs. They describe Greg as a visible, compassionate & kind leader who always goes above & beyond.
💉Covid-19 vaccination latest:
✔ All care homes vaccinated by Sunday
✔ We expect to have given all of our Over 80's their first dose by the end of the week
✔ GPs are now seeing the 75+
✔ Appointment letters are being sent to the 70-74
Read more here:
We’re aware of a number of false rumours about
#Coronavirus
in our area.Please be assured when information is confirmed & appropriate we will make any announcements. Please follow official sources for information rather than listening to hearsay. Thank you for your understanding.
CTM UHB Consultant Podiatrist Gafin Morgan, is the First in Wales!
Cwm Taf Morgannwg’s Gafin Morgan has become Wales’ first ever Consultant Podiatrist.
Read the full story here -
We're proud to support the
#DistanceAware
campaign. If you see someone wearing a Distance Aware shield, please respect
#SocialDistancing
rules and keep at least two metres away - thank you!
We would like to say a very big thank you to Darren Mitchell of A&L Taxis who has donated this huge pile of much appreciated supplies to our Theatre team at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. Thank you so much!
Thanks to
@ceri_lynch
for speaking to
@BBCWales
about what it’s like for frontline staff. We’re so proud of all our staff and we’ll continue to do all we can to support you.
Covid: Royal Glamorgan Hospital staff 'broken' by pandemic deaths
What a lovely message for our staff! This amazing message has appeared on the road close to Prince Charles Hospital. We believe it to be the work of local company Barnaby Road Markings, organised by local Councillor Lee Davies. Thanks to everyone involved for your support!
Thank you to our mobile vaccination teams who - in just seven days - have visited all our eligible older adult care homes to offer residents a COVID-19 booster.
We were the first in the UK to start and are the first to finish in protecting our most vulnerable first.
Thank you!
Today we have released the below statement on the emergency department at RGH. We would like pay tribute to our staff for all their hard work. We have also listened to the views of our community, with their feedback being instrumental in shaping this work.