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University Hospital of Wales (Welsh: Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru) (UHW), also known as the Heath Hospital, is a 1,080-bed hospital in the Heath district of Cardiff, Wales. It is a teaching hospital of Cardiff University School of Medicine. Construction started in 1963, and the official opening took place in 1971.
Zeta-Jones announced in November 2012 that the hospital would become known as the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales. [ 7 ] The second phase of the hospital, which was designed by Boyes Rees and built by Interserve at a cost of £64 million, [ 8 ] was opened by First Minister Carwyn Jones in May 2015. [ 9 ]
Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Roath, Cardiff; Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, Heath; Rookwood Hospital; St David's Hospital, Canton, Cardiff; University Hospital Llandough, Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan; University Hospital of Wales, Heath (also known as Heath Hospital)
Barry Hospital is a 60-bed community hospital on Colcot Road in Colcot, Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Cardiff Royal Infirmary is a hospital situated in the heart of Cardiff. Hafan y Coed Mental Health Unit; Lansdowne Hospital; Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales is the only dedicated children's hospital in Wales
Heath was originally called the Great Heath and named as a result of the large park and woodland that it once contained. After the initial development of traditionally middle-classed semi-detached housing (1920s-1950s) and more recently the construction of the University Hospital of Wales on the site of the former Heath Wood (1960s), much of the greenery has been eradicated. [2]
The government response was that since 1999, the total number of staff working in the Welsh NHS had increased by a third. In 2015, there were 2,000 GPs working in the NHS in Wales, the highest number ever and an increase of 11% since 2003. The number of nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff increased from 28,157 in 2010 to 28,300 in 2014 ...
The hospital was renamed the University Hospital Llandough in 2008 to reflect its links with the Cardiff University School of Medicine. [5] Inpatient adult mental health services were transferred to Llandough in 2016 with the opening of the Hafan y Coed unit. [ 6 ]
In August 2019, following a campaign by the families of contaminated blood victims, a bust of the late professor was removed from the haemophilia centre of the University Hospital of Wales. [18] According to The Times , the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board removed the bust so as to "not cause any additional stress or upset to people ...