Primary Care Early Targeted Engagement

We have a shared vision with our communities for us to live healthy, joyful lives.  

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’, 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, an example being the establishment of the new hospital network, services are  managing these fragilities on a daily basis. 

As part of our response we are developing a Primary and Community Services strategy for the seven clusters that treat patients in the communities across the Hywel Dda region. It will set out the principles and standards that will support the activities needed to provide safe and sustainable Primary Care and Community services across the four contractor professions (General Medical Services, General Dental Services, Community Pharmacy and Optometry). The strategy will outline how we do this whilst also aligning to the delivery of the overarching National and Health Board strategic vision. 

The Clinical Services Plan Programme is clinically led and will be developed in an open and transparent manner, with the full engagement of stakeholders including staff and service users.  

An issues paper will be developed for each service looking back to 2018, to understand what is good, what is not so good, and what needs to be improved. 

If you have any further questions, or wish to tell us about anything else related to these services, please email: hyweldda.engagement@wales.nhs.uk  or call: 0300 303 8322 (local call rates). 

If you would like to be kept up-to-date on developments you can join Siarad Iechyd/Talking Health by emailing Hyweldda.Engagement@wales.nhs.uk or calling 0300 303 8322 (local call rates), or writing to us at: FREEPOST HYWEL DDA HEALTH BOARD