Hywel dda University Health Board

The entrance to Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, a single-storey brick building with a green flag flying outside
Education

YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: County council backs urgent talks with health board over nurses for special schools

A mother’s account of racing to the school while her son’s lips turned blue was read to councillors before the…

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Kit Peters
Group of campaigners holding Save Our Surgery leaflets at a community event in Pontyates.
GP recruitment

SARN SURGERY: Campaigners warn merger will pile pressure on Kidwelly and Trimsaran

The group that fought to keep Pontyates’ surgery open says the plan to save it now raises questions for two…

Packed community hall with residents seated at round tables during a Hywel Dda drop-in engagement session about the proposed closure of Meddygfa'r Sarn surgery
GP recruitment

PONTYATES: Meddygfa’r Sarn stays open under merger plan, but not all day

Hywel Dda has set out the hours for the village surgery for the first time, and patients needing an urgent…

Exterior view of Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Anna Brychan MS

YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Parents and pupils question if Llanelli’s planned special school is already too small

Llanelli’s £35m special school has passed its public test. Now the question is whether 150 places will be enough.

Seven people reading draft leaflets outside the Minor Injuries Unit entrance at Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, including SOSPPAN campaigners, a Llais representative and nursing staff in blue uniforms
Deryk Cundy

LLANELLI: Prince Philip Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre has an opening date

The hours stay the same. What you can be treated for in Llanelli does not. Here is what changes at…

Scott Bayes standing with arms folded in front of security fencing and scaffolding on the former Debenhams building in Carmarthen
Atriwm

CARMARTHEN: 835 demand an inquiry into the £41m Atriwm, as the council keeps St Catherine’s Street roadworks until Christmas

Campaigner Scott Bayes will put the case for an independent inquiry to councillors on 12 November. The council says the…

The entrance to Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, a single-storey brick building with a green flag flying outside
Anna Brychan MS

YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Four pupils have died in six months, says councillor, and still no nurse

Health chiefs could give no guarantee and no deadline for a nurse at the Llanelli special school, campaigners say, and…

Large crowd of over 100 people gathered in the car park outside Meddygfa'r Sarn surgery in Pontyates holding protest signs against its proposed closure
Adam Price MS

PONTYATES: ‘What has changed since January?’ Politicians quiz health board over GP surgery merger

In January, Hywel Dda’s own panel wanted Meddygfa’r Sarn’s patients moved to other surgeries. Now it backs a merger with…

A modern brick health centre building at Canolfan Pentre Awel, with a curved yellow path, bench and landscaped planting in front.
Bouygues UK

LLANELLI: 29,000 blood test patients since June as Canolfan Pentre Awel turns one

It opened a year ago on land where Llanelli once made tinplate. Here’s how the town has used it, and…

Four Carmarthenshire village primary schools in a two-by-two grid, each labelled: Ysgol Carwe, Ysgol Pontiets with its 150th anniversary banner, Ysgol Bancffosfelen and Ysgol Blaenau
Bancffosfelen

SCHOOL CLOSURES: Four more Carmarthenshire village schools face the axe, three of them in the Gwendraeth Valley

Blaenau was saved five years ago. Carway's children haven't been inside their own school for more than a year. Now…

Residents forming a human chain outside Meddygfa'r Sarn surgery in Pontyates holding protest banners against its proposed closure
Cllr Alex Evans

PONTYATES: Meddygfa’r Sarn would become a branch of Kidwelly surgery under health board merger plan

Nobody bid to run the village surgery. Now Hywel Dda wants to merge it with Meddygfa Minafon and keep Pontyates…