Built on the site of the former Victorian St David's Hospital, which closed in 1990, the all-new…read morehospital opened in March 2002 offering brand new facilities to their mainstay: older people and rehabilitation patients. It is the first new hospital to have opened in Cardiff for 30 years. Today the 100-bed building includes a range of purpose-designed facilities including a 25-place day hospital and four wards dedicated to the care of older people. Patients have been relocated from the Royal Hamadryad and Lansdowne Hospitals. The Day Hospital is open five days per week and provides all-new amenities and furniture. St David's also offers: *Podiatry Services *Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Services *Respite Care *A community-based children's centre for West Cardiff *A primary dental care unit *A range of out-patient services.

My experience is only of the Acute Response Team, based at ST Davids…read more Parking is easy and convenient (remember to log your registration number at reception). Reception staff are very helpful and friendly, the hospital and grounds are very, clean quiet and relaxed. I cannot speak highly enough of the acute response team - caring, efficient, friendly and treat you with respect.

Is a doctor's surgery for your common aches and pains and fevers and vaccinations…read more Here are a few things it may be useful to know: * To make an appointment phone up or call at the surgery during opening hours. Urgent medical problems that cannot wait for a routine appointment are seen at the end of morning and afternoon surgeries. * The practice covers central and north Cardiff, including Gabalfa, Mynachdy, Whitchurch, Llanishen, Heath and Rhiwbina. * Additional services offered: Contraception & Sexual Health, Cervical Screening, Maternity & Child care, Phlebotomist, Flu & Pneumonia, Travel Vaccines, Carers, and Counselling. * The Head of Practice is Dr Yarr (Male) who heads up the other GPs: Dr Gantley, Dr Mcclean. Dr Meades and Dr Edwards. Get well soon!

The doctors here go by the names of Bowen, Rees, Lane, Scolding and Davies. The area covered by the…read morepractice includes Roath, Penylan, Llanedeyrn, Lisvane, Llanishen, Cathays, Pentwyn, Birchgrove, Heath and Cyncoed. You can make an appointment to see a doctor. Or a nurse. To make an appointment telephone 029 2048 8299 during opening hours, or call in personally at reception. They offer a range of services over and above General Medical Services, including Maternity Medical Services (Antenatal, Post Natal), Child Health Surveillance (which sounds a lot more sinister than it actually is), Baby and Childhood Immunisation Clinics and more. The building has access, through the car park at the rear, for disabled patients.

It is for the use of little; local companies like this one as to why we need the help of websites…read morelike yelp to tell us all about a place, locally from a personal perspective. I say this because I have found it hard myself when I've been trying look up certain companies information and details about the place and to have a good photograph on hand to know what the company looks like. So it is great to have people like us going out and about experiencing places like this surgery. Or by simply taking a trip down memory lane; by writing about where we have been in the past. This surgery is a small place where it has a reception desk and a waiting room for you to wait and here your name be called for a doctor's appointment. Swine Flu Vaccinations are taken place here at this surgery now. This is particularly for those people who are 65 years of age or older and women who are pregnant. You need to go to the surgery to make an urgent appointment. The building has access for disabled patients, but be aware that this is located through their car park at the rear. All records for every individual are kept confidential and this company is a part of the NHS. I recommend this place to all locals to use as the staff are very caring and kind.

This practice is a partnership of four GPs - Dr Chaudhuri, Dr Thapar, Dr Williams, and Dr Rankine -…read moreand provides a range of primary healthcare services. They work from a Health Centre, where other doctors have practices. All the consultation rooms are on the ground floor of the building and they have suitable access for disabled patients. If you need to speak to a doctor you can ring the surgery between 9.30 AM and 11 AM any morning and speak to the doctor on call (this excludes weekends and bank holidays). They also have a treatment room with a community nurse. A Boots Pharmacy is attached to the Health Centre. In their Patient information on GP ACCESS survey 2009/10 87% of patients were able to see a doctor or health care professional on the same day or next day, while 66% of patients were able to book appointments more than 2 days in advance. These results followed the similar trend of the majority of GP practices in WALES.

I have had many an opportunity to visit the Heath hospital. Taking an elderly relative to out…read morepatient care and also A&E. And, I don't know whether it is because of the bad press the NHS has received over the years relating to impersonal service, neglect of patients, mal-practise, dare I go on, but every experience I have been part of during the course of an appointment, has been a more than favourable one. Doctors, well, they are always rushed for time, so you forgive their sometimes curt ways, but the staff from nurses to reception are all incredibly polite, warm, kind and helpful. It is like they all have taken a Florence Nightingale pill. I'm into 'personality' in a big way, because I think it is lacking in today's harassed society, but it means everything and is a wonderful placebo. The negative aspects to my time at the Cardiff hospital, and I think being on hospital grounds, there should be a bit of responsibility taken. Is the WHSmiths store. Every time I go in to purchase a paper, the programmed workers behind the counter refer to the WHS sales items that are blatantly stacked on the counter, so much so, that you hardly have room to place your purchases - These sales items, are always sugar coated treats. But, your intelligence and your senses are insulted completely by 'the hussle' to sell these sugar items, chocolate bars, candies and this is all happening in a hospital. I have pointed this irony out to the sales staff, but it has fallen on deaf and stubborn ears every time and I am brushed aside as if I have not even spoken. With diabetes and obesity running at an all time high, the pushing of such items - ESPECIALLY ON HOSPITAL TERRAIN - is not only an insult but terribly insensitive. I guess if they could get away with shoving cigarettes under your nose, they would do that too without another thought to their surroundings.

University Hospital of Wales, or Heath Hospital, as most locals know it, is one of the largest…read morehospitals in Wales. Due to its emphasis upon education, the hospital is full with students in every area, from nursing to radiotherapy. But this does not mean that the standard in lacking, instead it means that there is an air of learning and team playing that might not be as evident elsewhere. This hospital has a reputation for being understaffed, and this is probably true, as it is of most NHS hospitals these days. However, all my experiences have led me to believe that the staff really try as hard as they can, and I want to commend them for that. A little way to go, but nearly awesome.

This is a long established Practice with two surgeries situated at Riverside and Pontcanna. Both…read morepremises have suitable access for disabled patients along with an Induction Loop System situated at the reception desks for hearing aid users. There is also a portable loop for use in surgery consultations, just ask at reception if you need it. What's on offer? *Core Services: General Medical Services, Health promotion advice, Referral to other services if required, Emergency care, Care for temporary residents. *Additional Services: Vaccinations & Immunisations, Child Health Surveillance, Maternity Services, Contraceptive Services, Cervical Screening. *Enhanced Services: Minor Surgery Procedures, Anticoagulation, Influenza Vaccinations. *The Well Baby Clinic is every Wednesday from 11.30am - 1.00pm. Consultations with a GP are made by appointment only. Pre-booked appointments can be made up to two weeks in advance. All Nurse consultations are also made by appointment. The Practice does its best to see patients within 24 hours but more realistically it will be within 48 hours. Emergencies are seen on the same day. To book an appointment you can telephone the surgery or visit during opening hours.

Worst GP surgery I have ever experienced. Found it near impossible to get hold of a repeat…read moreprescription as they kept sending it to either the wrong place or forgetting to request it at all. The young female receptionist is incredibly rude and hung up on me multiple times throughout my time there, I always dreaded her answering the phone. The doctors kept blowing me off saying nothing was wrong as far as they could tell/too young for medication so ended up having to go privately to get listened to and got told I should of been treated years ago for my problem. My advice, do not choose this surgery.

It is quite reassuring when a doctor's surgery mission statement is something like 'Making It…read moreBetter.' Meet Meddygfa Canna Surgery. The Practice opened in 2003 at 27 Wyndham Crescent, Canton, Cardiff. It is purpose-built and suitable for patients with physical disabilities with ramp access and all consulting rooms are located on the ground floor of the building. They have a large waiting area with a play area for children. There are parking spaces for 22 cars as well as a cycle parking area, which are provided for the use of patients. There are currently five partners caring for approximately 6800 patients. The practice caters for patients residing in the Canton, Pontcanna and Riverside areas of Cardiff. Our boundary extends south of Western Avenue into the City Centre as far as Tudor Street. Meddygfa Canna Surgery is also a training Practice which provides training for 3rd and 5th Year Medical Students at different times of the academic year. If you do not wish a student to be present during your consultation, you can tell the Receptionist who will try to arrange another appointment.

All Kings Road surgeries are booked by an appointment-only system. The earlier half of the morning…read more surgery has routine appointments bookable in advance, the latter half of the morning surgery has appointments bookable on the day. The earlier half of the afternoon surgery are bookable on the day. The latter half of the afternoon surgery has routine appointments bookable in advance. Patients will need to contact the surgery early in the morning for a "book on the day" appointment. This can be done over the telephone or in person at reception (the phone lines are open at 8.30am). If you are too ill to get to the surgery and you require a visit at home you can call the surgery before 10.30am and see if a doctor is available. BONUS: Acupuncture appointments are available with Dr Glascoe during routine surgeries for acupuncture treatment, for registered and non-registered patients.