WE invite you to take two minutes to watch an end-of-year video that celebrates the staff at Hywel Dda University Health Board, featuring a beautiful song sang by talented pupil Miriam Llwyd.

Created by teams across the health board and supported by Miriam’s lovely rendition of Pan fo’r Nos yn Hir, the video is a tribute to the health board’s staff who work hard every day of the year.

The Welsh language song Pan Fo’r Nos yn Hir, which translates to When the Night is Long, was written by Ryan Davies.

The last moments of dusk settle above the coastal town of Aberystwyth in West Wales. Bronglais Hospital is on a hill, nestled between houses.

We watch as a member of staff walks steadily up the hill and into the hospital. She passes some Christmas decorations in the entrance and gives a nod of recognition to a member of reception staff.

We move to outside the hospital, from two floors up. Night has settled in. The building is in darkness, but each window sheds a beacon of light from within and we see patient Maggie in the window looking out at the town.

The scene shifts and Maggie, young for her 77-years but with wise eyes, in a hospital bed. Our staff member walks in, and her uniform makes clear now that she is a doctor.

Accompanying her is another member of staff. He wears white scrubs and has an occupational therapy form, which he fills in, with nods of encouragement at the patient bedside.

Administration and nursing staff in an office enter data into a computer and carefully place files away.

Back in Maggie’s hospital room a member of the domestic team changes a pillowcase and supports Maggie to be comfortable as they chat about the evening. We see a glimpse behind the scenes now in a nearby hospital corridor where a porter pushes a trolley with laundry towards its destination.

At the patient bedside, the doctor talks to Maggie and demonstrates how she will put an oxygen mask on her. The scene shifts to the hospital equipment library where two technicians work together in tandem to test and ready the equipment for use.

The doctor gently wipes the inside of Maggie’s arm to prepare to draw blood before the scene moves to the pathology laboratory. We see the use of robotics in the laboratory, picking up the sample bottles, as well as scientists reading the blood under a microscope.

In the kitchen, peppers are being cut and food prepared by our catering staff in white coat. Back with Maggie, she is still in the hospital bed but sitting up now and wearing a Santa hat. A volunteer in a bright yellow t-shirt delivers a tray of food.

The film moves outside now. It is countryside, with green fields and tractors between hedgerows. A car travels up the hill. We see a phone on the dashboard and the call is from a district nurse The driver, a community occupational therapist, pulls the car over to a stop on the roadside and takes the call as she jots down notes.

Back in hospital, Maggie wakes from sleeping and smiles as she sees the doctor at the bedside. She thinks back to the previous day when she had a FaceTime call with family. We see Maggie wave into the computer tablet and can see the frame is filled with her daughter and grandchildren all bubbling with news.

A domestic in burgundy scrubs, passes by the doorway of Maggie’s room as he mops the floor, and gives Maggie a wave.

As Maggie sleeps in bed, we see hands gently place a Christmas present wrapped in brown paper and a blue ribbon on the bedside cabinet next to Maggie.

The doctor moves into a staff room now, and drops with some tiredness to a seat, and stretches out to put the nearby kettle on.

Nearby, a group of nurses and healthcare assistants in scrubs and Christmas headbands, look to be sharing good wishes as they hand a headband to a colleague.

The scene cuts back to Maggie’s room. As the doctor makes notes, Maggie manages to covertly place a Christmas card, with a picture of a Christmas tree, into the doctor’s pocket without her noticing.

Our doctor is walking out of the hospital into the dawn light with other staff, talking as they go. She is a few steps behind the others when she realises there is something in her pocket.

She draws out the card, opens it and we read in a handwritten note ‘Diolch pawb, thank you all’ She smiles. We pan out and above now and see the hospital once again, nestled in the community and in the light of a new day.