Information for people with diabetes

Information for people with diabetes - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic please note that from 09.00am on Monday 30^th March 2020 the Royal Glamorgan Hospital Diabetes Centre will be temporarily relocated to the opposite end of the hospital where the Antenatal outpatient department was located. This is opposite wards 19 & 20.

As we write this post you will be aware that the current government advice is that everyone, including people with diabetes, should be staying at home except in exceptional circumstances, such as:

Obtaining basic necessities, like food or medicine
Exercise once a day
Any medical need to care for a vulnerable person
Going to and from work, and only if this can’t be done at home, such as key workers

This information may change and for up to date advice please visit:

Finally please find below additional useful links and general information for people with diabetes which have been made available to us via the All Wales Implementation Group:

Other useful Links for Advice

Diabetes UK Helpline
Pocket Medic Films for Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes
COVID-19 and Children with Diabetes
Diabetes Twitter Accounts @_diabetes101 | @CYPDN_Wales | @YADiabetesWales
PRESS RELEASE_Screening programmes in Wales_V1 20 March 2020.pdf

General information for people with diabetes

Supporting colleagues to keep smiling

Staff and teams from across Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board are stepping away from their usual roles to support colleagues in other areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contact Tracing FAQs

Contact tracing is how we identify people who come into contact with someone who tests positive for coronavirus and may be at risk themselves. These ‘contacts’ can then be given advice to reduce spread to other people as much as possible.

Covid ward role for health visitor Nicole

A Rhondda health visitor is back in her community after spending two weeks working on a Covid ITU ward. Ferndale-based Nicole Smith refreshed her critical care skills to support colleagues and patients at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, as community nurses in Cwm Taf Morgannwg adapt to working differently in response to the pandemic.

“Nothing can prepare you” – what it’s really like to work in a Covid ITU

If the warm weather is tempting you to bend the lockdown restrictions this weekend, reading the reality of the twelve and a half hour shifts that staff in our Covid19 ITU departments are working might make you think twice and stay close to home.

Help protect children and young people in your community

South Wales Police is asking members of our communities – family, friends, neighbours, postal workers, delivery drivers – to act as our eyes and ears during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to alert their local safeguarding team or the police if they believe a child is being neglected, experiencing abuse, or is at risk of harm.

SALT makes a difference!

Speech and Language Therapists (SALT) have always had a key role to play in supporting any patient in a critical care environment, by supporting rehabilitation of their communication, swallowing disorders and respiratory management.

Our wedding was postponed due to Covid-19

Jonathan Gapper and fiancée Jessica Parsons both work in the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend. Jonathan is a clinical lead nurse on the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and Jessica is acting ward manager on an older people’s mental health assessment unit.

CTM joins fight against Coronavirus in ground-breaking new study

Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB has joined the fight against Coronavirus by recruiting COVID-19 patients to participate in a ground-breaking new study of the disease.