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 12 weeks from Monday 2 June 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. The Health Board and an independent company, Opinion Research Services, are now reviewing around 4,000 responses to a questionnaire as well as feedback from events and engagement activities.
The Board will receive an update on the work to collect and review feedback from the consultation in its November 2025 meeting. An extraordinary Board meeting to make decisions on the future of the nine service, will now take place in February 2026. It is planned to publish a consultation report in January 2026 ahead of Board making their decision.
What has happened so far?
You can read more background information on this project on our dedicated webpage, here (opens in new tab).
