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Equalities and health impacts

Changing health and care services will affect all of us living in the Hywel Dda area regardless of age, sex, disability (physical, mental health and learning disabilities), race, religion, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, or pregnancy and maternity status.

We must ensure that our proposals are fair to all and take particular care to consider people who are vulnerable. We have already engaged with groups representing vulnerable people and will continue to do so to ensure they are involved throughout our consultation.

We have produced what is called an Equality and Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) for the whole of our Programme Business Case, which includes delivery of our new Urgent and Planned Care Hospital.

You can access the full version of the EHIA  by visiting our Technical Document section (opens in new window). If you would like further detailed information, this can be obtained by contacting: inclusion.hdd@wales.nhs.uk

The EHIA, includes an overview of the potential positive and negative impacts on people, and how we will mitigate them and address our equality duties. The document is used to help decision makers when considering future developments.

We updated the EHIA as part of the appraisals we undertook when shortlisting site options for the new Urgent and Planned Care Hospital. The document will be continually updated as we learn more and is available in full. 

We also plan to undertake focus groups with the public, and particularly with vulnerable or disadvantaged groups (referred to as people with protected characteristics) or people who may be affected by the building of a new hospital, for example those living close to the three potential sites. Information from these groups will be used in the EHIA as we learn more.

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