{"id":443079,"date":"2026-02-24T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:14:30","slug":"patients-concerned-as-hywel-dda-health-board-set-for-major-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443079\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients concerned as Hywel Dda health board set for major changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Changes to stroke services had been under particular scrutiny, and the meeting heard that those changes “had attracted the strongest opposition”. <\/p>\n

There are currently stroke units in Carmarthen, Llanelli, Aberystwyth and Haverfordwest. <\/p>\n

If the plans agreed at the meeting are put in place following a consultation, in future there will be only one located at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, while a “treat and transfer service” will be available at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth<\/a>, as well as in Llanelli and Haverfordwest. <\/p>\n

Brendan Somers, who was treated at Bronglais two years ago following a stroke, said he was concerned about the options being considered. <\/p>\n

“It would be a tragic and, quite frankly, irresponsible decision,” he said.<\/p>\n

Somers questioned the rationale behind the proposals, arguing that Bronglais sits at the “geographic centre of the Hywel Dda area”.<\/p>\n

“Is there a more logical place to have a top quality service than in the centre of the catchment area it’s got to deal with?” he said.<\/p>\n

Lisa Francis, chairwoman of Protect Bronglais Services, said she was “really disappointed” that Bronglais will not have a stroke unit, saying that if people were to be moved between services in the area then access to ambulances was crucial. <\/p>\n

“If you’re moving people a distance of two hours away by road, we need to know how they’re going to get there and how they’re going to get back,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Changes to stroke services had been under particular scrutiny, and the meeting heard that those changes “had attracted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}