Press releases

If during the pandemic your child has progressed from reception to year one, school nurses are requesting that you take your child to an optometrist to have their eyes tested.

People living across Hywel Dda are being reminded that today marks just two weeks until all hospital grounds become smoke-free.

One of Hywel Dda UHB’s own workforce received an extra special phone call this week from His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.

Thanks to the amazing efforts of vaccination teams and GP practices across Hywel Dda, we can confirm that we have met the first vaccination milestone.

Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) is thanking the many partner organisations and people who have helped implement the COVID-19 vaccination programme – the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is supporting a national study which aims to understand how the ongoing pandemic has impacted on the mental health and emotional wellbeing of people across Wales.

Hywel Dda University Health Board’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is on schedule to offer a vaccine to everyone in priority groups 1 to 4 by Monday 15 February.

Hywel Dda University Health Board can confirm that despite improvements in the rate of COVID-19 infections across our community in recent weeks, we continue to manage a significant number of patients at Glangwili General Hospital who have tested positive for COVID-19 and we are taking additional measures to protect patients and help prevent further spread of the virus.

Work on new neonatal facilities at Glangwili Hospital, part of £25.2 million maternity improvements at the hospital, has continued throughout the pandemic with the new Special Care Baby Unit set to open later this year. 

In response to confirmed COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the coming week, people who are shielding and have not already been offered an appointment by their GPs will now be invited to receive their vaccination at a mass vaccination centre, Hywel Dda University Health has confirmed.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is asking people in vaccine priority groups 1 to 3 to get in touch as soon as possible if they have not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine appointment.

The Hywel Dda Apprenticeship Academy is again opening its doors to anyone looking to join the NHS – this could be your chance to make a difference to local health care.

As high proportions of the first three priority groups have received or been booked in for their COVID-19 vaccinations in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire; the vaccine programme is being rolled out further more.

Letters will arrive in the coming days inviting 20,000 Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire residents aged 75 to 79 years to receive their first COVID vaccine at a mass vaccination centre, Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) has announced.

People are naturally tired and weary and frightened after almost a year of being under the siege of this pandemic.  It`s easy to lose faith and trust after such a long time in lockdown, in the middle of a dark winter and when the media is constantly full of reports about the virus.

Cardigan Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) re-opens to patients from Monday 25 January 2021

The winter months usher in an avalanche of illnesses that can target the whole family. Help us to Help you this winter - please use your local pharmacist when it comes to seeking treatment for your winter illnesses rather than contacting your GP or attending A&E.