Gorseinon Hospital update
At a special meeting of Swansea Bay University Health Board today (26/2/2026) it was agreed to extend the temporary transfer of beds from Gorseinon Hospital to Singleton Hospital for a further six months.
The beds were originally transferred to Singleton in October for patient safety reasons and were due to remain there until 31st March. Today’s decision means that the beds will now continue to stay at Singleton until 30th September 2026.
However, it is important to note that Gorseinon Hospital remains open. We have no plans whatsoever to close the hospital.
Gorseinon is home to a wide range of valuable outpatient and community services (*see below), as well as being a key venue for blood tests.
Since the beds were transferred in October we have made a lot of progress in resolving safety concerns. However, we would not yet have been in a position to safely return the beds to Gorseinon by the end of March. Full details of the progress made and remaining challenges are outlined in more detail in the papers for the Special Board.
This extension does not change the Health Board’s commitment to Gorseinon Hospital which we continue to see as having a vibrant and important future.
The nature of the role that Gorseinon Hospital plays going forward will be considered as part of our wider clinical services plan Transforming for the Future which is looking at how best we can deliver all our clinical services in ways which offer high quality, safe and sustainable care.
The next six months will therefore give us the opportunity to speak to staff, stakeholders and the public, and we’ll be holding a series of listening events, starting in Gorseinon, to ensure that the views of the local population are fed into that process before we even start to put pen to paper.
*Gorseinon Hospital is a base for several community teams and services. They are unaffected by the transfer of beds to Singleton and continue to operate as normal:
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
- Respiratory, cardiology and medicine, including the Heart Failure Clinic for patients across Swansea Bay
- A range of support services
- Community bladder and bowel health (catheter, stoma care etc)
- Home First Nursing team - supporting patients to return home
- Occupational therapy – supporting patients in the community
- Health visiting – the base for our health visiting team
- Parkinson’s Nurses – the base for this team too
- Speech and language therapy - supporting the acute clinical team
- Phlebotomy – blood collection for GPs and other patient referrals
- District nursing – a base for our District Nursing Team
- School nursing – a base for our School Nursing Team.
Go here to read the papers for the special Board meeting on 26th February 2026
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