Due to the nature of service provision across Mid and West Wales, it is recognised that a wide range of services have some fragilities. This was a key driver behind the development of the Health Board’s strategy which seeks to reduce, if not eliminate, the risks to sustainable service provision.
Our strategy called ‘A Healthier Mid and West Wales: Our future generations living well’ (opens in new tab), has the ambition to shift from a service that just treats illness to one that keeps people well, prevents ill-health or worsening of ill health, and provides any help you need early on. Until the strategy is fully implemented, in particular the establishment of the proposed new hospital network, services are having to manage these fragilities on a daily basis.
The pandemic has further exposed these deficiencies, with many services unable to restore pre-COVID activity levels or service models. To respond to this, we are going to review services that are in urgent need of attention so we can develop a set of plans to support key services over the medium-term.
You can read more background information on this project on our dedicated webpage, here (opens in new tab).