As we considered options for hospitals and consulted on this in 2018, we ruled out options to develop one of Glangwili or Withybush hospitals as the Urgent and Planned Care Hospital. This was because the distance of travel would be too great for people in the neighbouring county (i.e. travel too great for people in Carmarthenshire when sited at Withybush and travel too great for people in Pembrokeshire when sited in Glangwili).
We also ruled out the option to develop both Glangwili and Withybush hospitals as Urgent and Planned Care Hospitals because this would not address the problem with maintaining our medical rotas that result in fragile services for our communities.
The overall geographical zone for the new hospital, between and including St Clears and Narberth, was chosen as it is within an hour car journey for most populations in our area.