Our Facilities
About Morriston Hospital
Morriston is one of the largest hospitals in Wales. It is the regional acute tertiary hospital for South West Wales, offering a range of specialist services, including trauma and orthopaedics, renal medicine, neurology, oral and maxillofacial surgery and it hosts the regional cleft lip and palate service for children and adults.
It offers one of two cardiac centres in Wales and is home to the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, and also the bariatric (obesity service) for Wales. It has a modern intensive care unit.
Morriston has one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in Wales. Swansea Bay hosts the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service Cymru (EMRTS), otherwise known as the Flying Doctors, and the service works closely with Morriston Hospital.
It also provides acute medical beds and a wide range of surgical and urological services, children’s wards and a children’s high dependency unit. It has a full range of high-quality diagnostic and therapeutic services, and outpatient services.
Over the past few years Morriston has undergone a £100m-plus redevelopment with new buildings replacing pre-war estate. Most recently it has undergone a major investment with the building of the new Acute Medical Unit.
Our Mwy Na Coffee Shop is open Monday to Friday from 8am – 5.30pm. The staff canteen is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and we have a Costa, Subway and WH Smith in the reception area. Free-to-use cash machine in the restaurant.
Morriston Hospital has a multi-storey car park as well as surface car parks across the site. There is no charge for parking and spaces are available for cars displaying a valid Blue Badge. Follow the parking rules for your own safety and that of others. Please allow sufficient time to park as spaces may be limited, especially during peak times (after 8:50 AM).
Singleton Hospital, overlooking Swansea Bay, hosts a range of services. It provides a regional, consultant-led maternity unit and neonatal intensive care. Other services include ophthalmology, ear nose and throat, and genito-urinary services. The South West Wales Cancer Centre and chemotherapy day unit are also at Singleton, along with an iconic Maggie’s Centre located in its grounds. Bone marrow transplants are carried out by the haematology service. Singleton Hospital will be undergoing significant change over the next few years. The ultimate vision is Singleton playing a key part as an innovative health campus offering 21st century services, care and values. An important part of this is the continuing development of ambulatory care – services where patients get faster access to treatment without needing overnight stays.
Free WiFi. We have a volunteer-run coffee shop and a staff canteen serving drinks and food seven days a week.
Singleton has a large patient and visitor car park on site. There are also designated areas across the site for patients and visitors to park and specific blue badge spaces. There is no charge to park on Singleton site. However, there is a 4-hour time limit on the patient and visitor car park on Singleton site which was introduced to help eliminate unauthorised car parking. This time limit can be extended for patients by entering the vehicle registration on one of the tablets in the main entrances to the hospital. There is clear signage to highlight the parking rules throughout the site. Please allow sufficient time to park as spaces are limited, especially in peak times. You will need to request parking permit to avoid fines.
Accommodation
Both Morriston and Singleton Hospital have on site accommodation subject to availability.
If you have any queries in relation to accommodation within Swansea Bay UHB please contact the following:
Morriston
- SBU.Accommodation@wales.nhs.uk
- Tel: 01792 702222 ext 34006
Singleton
- SBU.SingletonAccommodation@wales.nhs.uk
- Tel: 01792 286869 ext 35380
Neath
If unable to secure on site accommodation you will need to look for private accommodation in the area.
Some useful websites to look for accommodation around are listed below:
While looking for accommodation some factors to bear in mind that may help you decide on what’s best for you:
- Distance from home to hospital
- Distance from home to the nearest bus stop
- Distance from home to gym
- Distance from home to Swansea city centre
- Distance from home to the nearest supermarket
- Furnished vs Unfurnished
- Furnished houses require a deposit of up to 1.5x the rent per month.
- Utilities included vs not
The nearest IKEA store is in Cardiff and can deliver to Swansea!
Facebook Marketplace may also be a good website to find decent and loved pre-owned furniture.
