Tributes have been paid to a Swansea doctor whose patients "thought the world of him" and who is credited as having a "transformative impact on both his patients and Morriston Hospital". Dr Keith Evans sadly passed away at home on Monday, November 14, and has been remembered by friends and family for the remarkable work he did for Morriston Hospital.
This included playing a leading role in the creation of the Cardiac Centre at the hospital and "beating off competition" from private health firm BUPA, to ensure the important unit would be run by the NHS and the then-Morriston Hospital NHS Trust.
Dr Evans was involved all the way through "from the earliest planning" to the "national benchmarking" of the proposed cardiac centre and also fought for the centre to be located in Swansea, rather than elsewhere in Wales. He was also a founding member of the Welsh Cardiac Group and the South Wales Cardiac Network and, earlier in his career, had worked "every other night for eight years" as one of just two on-call physicians at the Swansea hospital.
