The Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) has opened an outdoor pop-up café at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
The new outdoor service is situated just outside the main entrance and has been introduced to help ease congestion within the hospital, providing the comfort of refreshments to family and friends of patients who are unable to enter the hospital during their appointments.
Due to Covid-19 the RVS have been unable to provide their usual service for NHS staff and visitors to the hospital. Having worked with the Health board to find a solution, due to unavailable space in the hospital and some concerns regarding health & safety during lockdown measures, it was agreed that a solution would be to open a temporary mobile unit on the grounds outside of the hospital.
The small temporary “cabin” will allow the RVS to resume providing services, all be it on a much smaller scale, only allowing for takeaway drinks and a small rage of takeaway food for staff and visitors.
The intention, once covid restrictions allow, is to move back into the existing unit within the hospital and remove the cabin to another location in need. It’s anticipated this cabin will remain on site anywhere between six months – two years.
In a Facebook post a spokesperson said: “Visitors can spend well in the knowledge that profits from all our retail cafés supports the work we do as a charity across the NHS and within local communities.”
“We hope this is the first of many pop-ups to come.”
