Hywel Dda University Health Board

Group of campaigners holding Save Our Surgery leaflets at a community event in Pontyates.
Carmarthenshire news

Campaigners lodge formal complaint over Pontyates GP surgery closure plans

Campaigners fighting to save Meddygfa’r Sarn in Pontyates have formally complained to Hywel Dda University Health Board, raising serious concerns…

Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, the main entrance and hospital buildings
Carmarthenshire

HYWEL DDA: Health board pays out after patient left with ‘significant sight impairment’ following ‘serious failings’

HYWEL Dda University Health Board has unreservedly apologised and agreed to a £4,800 payout after a patient who was already…

An aerial photograph showing a large, sprawling complex of historic stone buildings with grey slate roofs, surrounded by green lawns, trees, and roads with car parks.
Carmarthen

CARMARTHEN: Former Victorian asylum transformed into major health and wellbeing campus

A historic Carmarthen estate, once the site of a Victorian psychiatric hospital, has been transformed into what its owners are…

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

Health board to hold extra public meeting on controversial Pontyates GP surgery closure plans

Hywel Dda University Health Board has announced an additional public meeting to discuss its controversial plans to close the only…

Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, the main entrance and hospital buildings
Eluned Morgan MS

Welsh Labour’s £4bn election pledge could revive controversial new Whitland or St Clears hospital plan

Welsh Labour's manifesto pledge to fund a "hospital development in West Wales" could signal a revival of the long-delayed plan…

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
Carmarthenshire

Hundreds protest to save Pontyates GP surgery as council demands action

Hundreds of residents have attended events to oppose the proposed closure of Meddygfa’r Sarn in Pontyates, culminating in a human…

Council Chamber at County Hall, Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire Council

Council demands action on Pontyates surgery closure as councillors warn of “predetermined outcome”

Carmarthenshire Council has passed a cross-party motion demanding urgent action to prevent the closure of Meddygfa'r Sarn GP surgery in…

Composite image showing Ysgol Heol Goffa school building in Llanelli on the left and Rocio Cifuentes MBE, Children's Commissioner for Wales, on the right
Children's Commissioner for Wales

CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER STEPS IN: Watchdog demands meeting with health board over special school nurse crisis

The Children’s Commissioner for Wales has intervened in the escalating crisis over nursing provision at a Llanelli special school, demanding…

Street‑view image showing the front entrance of Meddygfa’r Sarn GP surgery in Pontyates.
GP Surgery

Pontyates residents to form human chain around surgery in ‘Cwtsho’r Sarn’ solidarity event as petition tops 1,000 signatures

Campaigners fighting to save Pontyates GP surgery will form a human chain around the building on Monday in a highly…

Exterior view of Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Children's Commissioner for Wales

‘Lives may be at risk’: Watchdog probe demanded over Llanelli special school nurse crisis

Campaigners are calling for an investigation by Wales's top children's watchdog into what they claim is a lack of full-time…