Clinical services plan
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’ (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 reviewed services that are in urgent need of attention so we can develop a set of plans to support key services over the medium-term.
A public consultation ran for 13 weeks from Thursday 29 May 2025 to Sunday 31 August 2025. During the consultation we sought the views of our communities on the proposed options for change across nine clinical services. Information about the consultation, including consultation documentation in accessible formats, is available on our dedicated consultation webpages (opens in new tab)
An independent company, Opinion Research Services (ORS), gathered together all the views we heard from people who took part in the consultation and created a report. This report, alongside a wide range of other information, will help the health board to make decisions about the future of these services.
Below you can read the executive summary of the report. We have shared this in an accessible format, using the report content, exactly as it was written by ORS. You can read the full report in the January Board meeting papers here (opens in new tab). We are aware that the report does not meet digital accessibility standards.
What has happened so far?
You can read more background information on this project on our dedicated webpage, here (opens in new tab).
