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Welsh is a language for everyone, and everyone is welcome to use their Cymraeg with us.

We're supporting the Welsh Language Commissioner's Office's'Defnyddia dy Gymraeg' (Use your Welsh) campaign, which runs between 25th November and 9th December 2024 and encourages people to use welsh in their everyday lives.

On Monday, voices from across the Health Board came together in the Main Restaurant at the Royal Gwent Hospital on their lunch break, forming the ABUHB John Lewis choir. Using the custom John Lewis-inspired TikTok filter, our Communications team captured the group’s rendition of Sonnet. Their performance was met with enthusiastic applause from onlookers in the canteen, creating a lovely moment that embodied the spirit of the season.

The long-serving manager at Watkin-Davies Pharmacy in Bettws, Newport, has retired at the age of 91 after an extraordinary 59 years of service to the local community.

It is HIV Testing Awareness Week in Wales, and the Sexual Health team want to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to test for HIV.

On World Prematurity Day, a Gwent Nurse and former premature baby has reflected on the lasting impact of the neonatal experience that led her to become a Neonatal Nurse herself.

Gwent’s Urgent and Emergency Care doctors are encouraging local residents to think carefully about where they go to for help this winter - and have outlined how choosing the right healthcare service could be crucial to supporting the NHS.

A local community writing group from Caerphilly, named "Tales Around the Teapots", is a wonderful example of how the Five Ways to Wellbeing - especially connecting, learning, and giving - can really make a difference to well-being.

An eye test may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of ways to stay well and avoid a hospital visit over the winter period, but did you know that routine eye tests play a big part in detecting health conditions and in reducing falls?

A specialist Registrar for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Dr. Emily Clark chose to have her flu vaccine this winter to protect herself and her baby, so she can spend the rest of her pregnancy preparing for the arrival of her little one. 

This week 4^th November we celebrate Occupational Therapy week in conjunction with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.