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Hywel Dda University Health Board will seek expressions of interest for the future and long-term delivery of general medical services (GP, and other primary care services such as practice nurse clinics) in the upper Amman Valley area. The University Health Board has listened very carefully to feedback from patients and patient representatives, including Hywel Dda Community Health Council and elected representatives, about the future of these services. Feedback was gathered from a number of well-attended public drop-in events held in August 2014 in Garnant, Gwaun Cae Gurwen and Brynamman, as well as through surveys and traditional letters. A panel made up of representatives from the Hywel Dda University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board, including a senior clinician, a community nurse, an independent board member; NHS Shared Services; Hywel Dda CHC; and written evidence from the Local Medical Committee; met recently to discuss options. It follows the end of ...

Hywel Dda Health Board and Hywel Dda Community Health Council have been working jointly to improve care for cancer patients.  A number of “quiet rooms” have been made available at Withybush, Glangwili and Prince Philip Hospitals and similar facilities are being sought at Bronglais Hospital. These rooms will be used by patients and their families when they need privacy following diagnosis and discussion of their conditions with health care professionals. Hywel Dda Health Board is also recruiting Macmillan Information Coordinators for Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. There is already a Macmillan Information Coordinator in Pembrokeshire. Additional changes that will benefit cancer patients will be to encourage better arrangements in the out-patient departments so that patients newly diagnosed with cancer will not have to queue for long periods with other patients whilst waiting for blood tests. Similarly, a new system is being developed so that cancer patients attending A&E c...