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Morriston Hospital

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By the late 1970s the hospital needed modernising. The design, which was undertaken by William Simpson using a nucleus layout which was capable of expansion, was announced in December 1976 and planning permission granted in March 1978. Construction began in 1981 and the building opened in October
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The Institute was formed in 2010 and is the only centre for bariatric surgery in Wales. The institute assess all Welsh patient referrals and undertakes surgery for patients in South Wales, with North Wales patients being referred to Salford.
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in 2010 covering a population of over 10 million across southern Wales and South West England. The Centre treats both adults and children, while children with extensive injuries are transferred to the
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The hospital successfully trialled the use of robotic process automation to review rheumatology prescriptions in 2019. The Welsh government plans to set up an e-prescribing system.
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In 2015 the Health Board announced plans to expand the site with focus exclusively on the care of the sickest patients. Further to those plans, a new
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The hospital is the site of the major Emergency Department for Swansea and is considered by the Health Board to be the major trauma unit for
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The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, which was designed to provide care for the whole population of 2.3 million across
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The site was originally occupied by Maes-y-Gwernen Hall, a 19th-century farmhouse which was acquired by
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to stay there in 1918. An emergency medical hospital was built on the site in 1942.
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The hospital is served by a regular bus service between Morriston Hospital and
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unit, built at a cost of £6.6 million, opened in August 2016.
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in 1994, and was designated the adult burns lead for the
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Swansea Bay University Health Board

Morriston Hospital is located in Swansea
Cwmrhydyceirw
Swansea
Coordinates
51°41′03″N 3°56′05″W / 51.68417°N 3.93472°W / 51.68417; -3.93472
Care system
NHS Wales
Type
Teaching
Affiliated university
Swansea University
Cardiff University
Emergency department
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Welsh
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Morriston
Swansea
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Swansea University Medical School
William Williams
Jeremiah Williams
David Lloyd George
West
Mid
South Wales
St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow

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