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The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery is based at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, and offers world-

leading care for patients of all ages from both Wales and England.

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Opened at Morriston Hospital on September 4, 1994, after services moved from St Lawrence Hospital in

Chepstow, the Centre has rapidly developed over the last quarter of a century to use new and developing

technologies and cutting-edge surgical techniques.

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As the Adult Burns Centre for the South West UK Burns Network, it covers a population of more than 13

million from the South, West and Mid Wales together with large adult burn injuries from the South West of

England. Complex burns patients from even further afield can also be referred here via the National Burns

Bed Bureau.

The Burns Centre facilities are exceptional and include 2 dedicated operating theatres, a 10 bed burns ITU/HDU, a 10-bed adult low dependency/rehabilitation ward for adults, a children’s ward, in addition to rehabilitation and outreach services. It treats around 950 burns patients a year, whilst also accepting other conditions leading to large areas of skin loss, including those with necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis.  Some of these are children with quite severe burns, however those with more extensive injuries are transferred to the paediatric Burns Centre in Bristol.

The Plastic Surgery department treats more than 6,500 cases a year that will need reconstructive work

following trauma, cancer, infections or congenital deformities. It provides outreach services to nearly all the

acute hospitals in South Wales, serving a population of about 2.3 million people.

We are the only providers of Plastic Surgery located in Wales with the population of North Wales receiving their services from units in the North West of England. We do peripheral clinics and day case operating across Wales (Haverfordwest, Camarthen, Llanelli, Singleton, Merthyr Tydfil, Mountain Ash, Cardiff, Newport, Llantrisant, Neath Port Talbot, Abergavenny).

The Clinical Plastic Surgery Unit has recently collaborated with Swansea University to form The

Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine Research Unit (ReconRegen). Located across two main sites, The Institute of Life Science at Swansea University & The European Centre for Nanohealth (Wales premier purpose-built £50 million medical research facility) and a research suite at The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery (ABM University Health Board).

This placing The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at the forefront of research in Plastic Surgery in the UK.