Health Board News
- Manage the mental health impacts of stopping smoking
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Committing to quitting smoking in 2025? SilverCloud Wales can help with free support for the mental health challenges of giving up cigarettes.
- 06/01/2025
- Urgent temporary changes to stroke services at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil
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Act F.A.S.T. and dial 999 for emergency stroke care.
- 20/12/2024
- Parents urged to be watchful for norovirus symptoms
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News from Public Health Wales
- 03/01/2025
- Avoid Slips and Trips in Icy Weather
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You can do a few things to help reduce your risk
- 02/01/2025
- Please don't visit hospital with flu or diarrhoea & vomiting symptoms
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The NHS in Powys is asking people not to visit loved ones in hospital if they are unwell, have been unwell in the last 48 hours, or have had contact with people with diarrhoea, vomiting or flu-like symptoms in recent days.
- 06/12/2024
- Flu is circulating in our communities
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Vaccination continues to be the best way to protect you and your family from the consequences of flu this winter
- 30/12/2024
- Meet Deborah, who has felt the "life-changing" effects of quitting smoking
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After 42 years of smoking, Deborah has finally turned her back on cigarettes thanks to support from the Powys Stop Smoking team.
- 20/12/2024
- Patient experience improved by mural roll out
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Over the past few years, many people may have noticed visual improvements to a number of internal (and a few external) spaces at Powys Teaching Health Board premises.
- 19/12/2024
- Storm Darragh: Useful Information
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- 08/12/2024
- Five tips for enjoying a stress-free Christmas
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It’s the season of goodwill, a time for joy – but Christmas can also mean a sleigh-load of stress. Prioritising your mental health is key to enjoying a peaceful and fulfilling Christmas.
- 13/12/2024
- Men encouraged to access free online mental health support on International Men's Day
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NHS Wales’ digital mental health service is calling on more men to access self-help support as figures reveal they’re 2.5 times less likely than women to use its programmes.
- 19/11/2024
- Recognition for amazing Powys Learning Disability Nurse
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A member of the Powys Teaching Health Board’s nursing team has spoken of her pride after being chosen as the first ever Learning Disability Nurse of the Year at the RCN Wales Awards 2024.
- 09/12/2024
- Online support service targets mental health toll of financial hardship
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NHS Wales is partnering with foodbanks to help combat the mental health impacts of the cost-of-living crisis.
- 02/12/2024
- New Enhanced Road-Based Care Service Planned for Remote Rural and Coastal Parts of Wales
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Progress on bespoke road-based service.
- 21/11/2024
- Researcher from PTHB involved in ground-breaking research on the use of antipsychotics
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A researcher from Powys Teaching Health Board has been involved in ground-breaking research on the use of antipsychotics in partnership with the University of Liverpool and University of Glasgow.
- 27/11/2024
- Green light for temporary changes to some MIU and ward-based services in Powys
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Powys Teaching Health Board has today (10 October 2024) approved proposals for temporary changes to some minor injury and ward-based services in the county.
- 10/10/2024
- Welsh stars back global drive to warn against dangers of overusing antibiotics
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Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria find a way to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. Whenever we use antibiotics, we give the bacteria a chance to fight back.
- 22/11/2024
- Home delivered test kit makes knowing HIV status easy
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Community leaders are urging sexually active people in Wales to order a free, confidential test kit from Public Health Wales.
- 22/11/2024
- Diversity award for Powys' maternity team
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The Maternity Services team at Powys Teaching Health Board has been awarded a Bronze Distinction Award by Diverse Cymru for the work they have been doing to progress how they approach diversity and equality in the workplace for both staff and patients.
- 07/11/2024