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Thanks to the support of Amman Valley Hospital’s League of Friends, an additional 16 car parking spaces will be created at the rear of the hospital site, adjacent to the main car park, to help ease parking pressures. Work will be completed by Friday 14 April. The 16 car parking spaces include two disabled bays. In addition to the new parking bays, the League of Friends are also supporting improvement works to the hospital driveway and the installation of a new security access barrier to the main hospital car park. Arwel Davies, Honorary Treasurer of the Amman Valley Hospital League of Friends said: "We are delighted to be supporting such an important development at Amman Valley Hospital to improve facilities for visitors and staff at the site. We are contributing over £100,000 to this development thanks to a legacy left to us from the late Mrs Gwenllian (Gwennie) Morgan of Tircoed Road, Glanamman." Patients and visitors to the hospital are being advised of temporary disrup...

Two nurses from Hywel Dda Health Board are trekking the Grand Canyon to fundraise for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Dawn Alberto and Christina Newton from Amman Valley Hospital will be crossing the bottom of the Canyon in a six day camping trip next March. The Ward Sister and Staff Nurse will be hiking six hours each day, travelling from Phoenix to Las Vegas and covering a total distance of 81 kilometres. Staff Nurse Christina said: “This is going to be an arduous task as there is one day where we have to cover 25 kilometres; we also have to absail down a waterfall and worst of all sleep with the snakes!” The nurses decided to fundraise for the cancer charity after seeing the Marie Curie nurses at their hospital. Christina continued: “At Amman Valley palliative care beds so we see the use of Marie Curie nurses there all the time. “It’s about giving people the choice rather than thinking that hospital is the only option. There is a lot more nurses out there with charity in the community.” To...

An innovative pilot project between Carmarthenshire County Council’s social services transport unit and Hywel Dda Health Board has proved so successful that it has been extended. The project transports patients home from Mynydd Mawr and Amman Valley hospitals. It has proved so successful that it has now been extended on a trial basis to West Wales General Hospital, and also provides transport for patients attending out-patient clinics at Prince Philip Hospital. Cllr Pat Jones, executive board member for health and social care, said: “This service is making a genuine difference to patients who may otherwise have to spend extra time in hospital without any real medical need for them to stay. “Partnership services such as this are making all the difference to a patient’s experience of hospital and social care services.” The scheme ensures patients are discharged in line with health board performance targets, which in turn improves patient flow. Drivers have been through a comprehensive tr...