Prince Charles Hospital

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Prince Charles Hospital
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
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Geography
Location Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°45′51″N3°23′06″W / 51.7641°N 3.3849°W / 51.7641; -3.3849
Organisation
Care system NHS Wales
Type General
Services
Emergency department Yes
History
Opened1978
Links
Website cwmtafmorgannwg.wales/visiting/prince-charles-hospital/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Prince Charles Hospital (Welsh : Ysbyty'r Tywysog Siarl) is a district general hospital in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

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History

Construction of the first phase of the new hospital began in 1972 and it was officially opened in 1978. [1] Services were transferred from Merthyr General Hospital in 1986, and once a second phase of the Prince Charles Hospital had been completed in 1991, services also transferred from Buckland Hospital. [2]

A new Emergency Care Centre opened in 2012 [3] and the complete refurbishment of the whole hospital was approved by the Welsh Government in October 2013. [4]

As part of a £6m revamp, a new state-of-the-art maternity unit was unveiled at the hospital in 2019. [5]

A hospital helipad was installed in 2017 at the cost of £700,000 and intended to be used for emergency night-time takeoffs and landings by rescue helicopters. In 2019 it had yet to be used because of a lack of adequate fencing and lights, which has raised safety concerns. [6]

The hospital's maternity services were put into special measures in 2019 after concerns were raised about the treatment of mothers and their babies. [7] There were also concerns about the standard of care affording to a cancer patient who died in the hospital. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Prince Charles Hospital" . Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. ↑ "Prince Charles Hospital". Merthyr History. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Minister opens Prince Charles Hospital's emergency care centre". Welsh Government. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Approval for Prince Charles Hospital refurbishment". Welsh Government. 15 October 2013. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "First look inside the new state-of-the-art maternity unit at Prince Charles Hospital". Wales Online. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Hospital's brand new £700,000 helipad has never been used despite being built two and a half years ago". Wales Online. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  7. ↑ Hammond, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP-Helen (28 June 2019). "Cwm Taf maternity services failings result in special measures amid deeply troubling accounts from parents". Lexology. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "Catalogue of failings in cancer patient's hospital care". BBC News. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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