The chief executive of Swansea Bay University Health Board has announced he is standing down after nearly two-and-a-half years in the job. Mark Hackett joined the health board in January, 2021, during the first winter of the Covid pandemic, and will leave at the end of August.
He has been credited with helping to drive through what the health board described as a reconfiguration of health services - a core element being a "centres of excellence" model for Morriston Hospital, Singleton Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
Under this change, Morriston Hospital is becoming a centre for urgent and emergency care, complex care, specialist care and regional surgery. Singleton Hospital is becoming a centre for planned healthcare, women’s health, cancer care and diagnostic tests. Neath Port Talbot Hospital is becoming a centre for orthopaedic and spinal care, and will also focus on rehabilitation and day surgery, among other things.
