Meddygfa’r Sarn
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…
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…
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…
PONTYATES: ‘Spread the word’ — campaigners urge GP teams to bid for Meddygfa’r Sarn as tender opens
The contract to run the village surgery goes out to tender next week — and the community group that saved…
PONTYATES: Campaigners back search for new GP team to secure future of Meddygfa’r Sarn
The Save Sarn Surgery group has welcomed plans to find an independent provider to run the practice from 2027 —…
PONTYATES: “Our community has been heard” — campaigners celebrate as Meddygfa’r Sarn is saved from closure
The campaigners who fought to save Meddygfa’r Sarn have hailed a “major victory” after Hywel Dda University Health Board set…
PONTYATES: Health board agrees to explore independent GPs for Meddygfa’r Sarn in major U-turn — as campaigners say closure should never have been on the table
Hywel Dda University Health Board has agreed to test whether independent GPs could take over Meddygfa’r Sarn in Pontyates —…
PONTYATES: The four-month fight to save Meddygfa’r Sarn — and the questions Hywel Dda still hasn’t answered as the board prepares to vote
On Thursday, Hywel Dda University Health Board meets at Yr Egin in Carmarthen to decide the future of GP services…
PONTYATES: Green Party candidate calls for independent review of Meddygfa’r Sarn closure process — citing missing equality assessment and lack of pre-consultation engagement
A Green Party candidate has called on Hywel Dda to pause its Meddygfa’r Sarn decision, citing FOI evidence that no…
PONTYATES: Independent candidate and surgery patient calls on Hywel Dda to scrap Meddygfa’r Sarn closure after FOI recruitment revelation
An independent Senedd candidate and Meddygfa'r Sarn patient has called on Hywel Dda University Health Board to scrap its closure…
PONTYATES: FOI reveals no specific recruitment attempts for Sarn surgery GP in 9 years as decision day looms
Freedom of Information documents reveal that Hywel Dda University Health Board made no targeted recruitment attempts for a salaried GP…