Today, a market leading scanner is unveiled at St Joseph’s Hospital as part of a £1.3m project – the latest stage in a £4m overhaul, which began in February 2020. The new MAGNETOM Sola 1.5T MRI from Siemens Healthineers is the only one of its kind in an independent hospital within a 100-mile radius of Newport. The new state-of-the-art MRI scanner provides the clearest images achievable, making St Joseph's Hospital one of the most technically advanced diagnostic centres in Wales and the South West

Hospitals across the world have had to deal with the complex issues brought about by COVID-19, and St Joseph’s in Newport is no exception. The hospital, bought by a local private investor in February 2020, has been part of the collective effort against the pandemic collaborating in a formal partnership with NHS Wales to support the national response

Coping with your feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 crisis has produced many unknowns in our lives. Will I become sick? Will my loved ones contract the virus and end up in a hospital? Will I lose my job? Will I need to cancel my wedding? How am I going to cope with the lockdown? Psychologist, Dr Leonie Jones, provides some advice; "All these what-ifs piling on top of one another are a recipe for anxiety and panic

Working in partnership with NHS Wales to fight COVID-19 We are very proud to be part of this collective effort against COVID-19 and have agreed a formal partnership with NHS Wales to support the national response. St Joseph's Hospital has committed it's bed capacity, facilities, expertise and resource to support the NHS during this very difficult time

Whether you have an injury or you're an in-patient receiving post-operative treatment, we offer personalised exercise and rehabilitation programmes at our centre for physiotherapy. Our multi-disciplinary physiotherapy team will ensure that you receive the best treatment and advice possible. We have some of the latest high-tech equipment available as part of the rehabilitation programme - this includes the world’s premier Anti-GravityTreadmill, manufactured by AlterG and engineered by NASA

Leakage is never normal and can be prevented. Urinary incontinence is the unintentional passing of urine. It’s a common problem thought to affect millions of people. Recently, television personality and presenter, Ferne McCann opened up about her struggle with incontinence following the birth of her daughter. She talked about the embarrassment of wetting herself daily and her worries for the future

Highly specialist scan shows whether arteries supplying blood to the heart are narrowed or becoming blocked. We spoke to Chris, a patient at St Joseph’s who recently had a CT Coronary Angiogram, to ask him a few questions about why he chose to have his heart assessed. We then spoke to the experts at St Joseph's to find out what the CT scan identified

No waiting times, state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities and professional, friendly staff are just some of the reasons to visit St Joseph's Hospital if you have any concerns about your health. Paul Davies, a patient of St Joseph’s Hospital, recently had an MRI scan having experienced abnormal heart palpitations when fitness training. Here’s what he had to say: Tell us a bit about your sporting life? I’m 41 years of age and have always been reasonably athletic

In rural Africa and other resource-poor areas, elective hernia surgery is often neglected as hospitals are ‘far and few’ and attending surgeons ‘difficult to find’. With people living on less than £2 a day treatment is unaffordable and as such their hernias increase in size and often limit a person’s daily activities and livelihoods, especially if the patient is the ’bread-winner’ of the family

In England and Wales approximately 160,000 total hip and knee replacement procedures are performed each year. Medical advances mean that hip replacement operations are now less invasive, and the implants last for longer than ever before. This has led to a rise in the number of people receiving the surgery – at St Joseph’s Hospital in Newport, the number of hip replacement procedures performed in its Orthopaedic Surgery Centre of Excellence increased by more than 40% from 2017-2018

Wales’ most capped footballer, Jessica Fishlock MBE, has been blown away by the rehabilitation facilities at St Joseph’s Hospital.

St Joseph’s Hospital offers a comprehensive assessment for those at risk of developing coronary heart disease. Heart and circulatory diseases cause more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK – that’s nearly 170,000 deaths each year, an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK. There are around 7.4 million people living with heart and circulatory disease in the UK – 3