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ALN

SWANSEA: The summer wellbeing sessions being run inside Minecraft

More than 30 children with additional learning needs are expected to take part, after Swansea Council put money behind a…

Nurses Kelsey Pirie and Emma Brown in wedding outfits standing on the lawn at Bryngarw House
Bryngarw Country Park

NEATH: The nurses who kicked off their heels at a wedding and saved a drowning toddler’s life

Cimla Hospital nurses Kelsey Pirie and Emma Brown were guests at Bryngarw House when screaming started in the country park…

Glangwili Hospital
Glangwili Hospital

CARMARTHEN: Watchdog alerted three times over troubled Glangwili operating theatres

Board papers reveal safety concerns, staff conflict and a £4.5m funding gap inside Glangwili Hospital's theatres, with cancer diagnostics and…

A busy hospital ward (Image: HEIW)
Clinical Services Plan

NEW HOSPITAL: The hospital that would end A&E in Carmarthen and Haverfordwest is at least seven years away

Hywel Dda's board papers put a fresh timeline on the controversial new hospital planned near St Clears or Whitland, the…

Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, the main entrance and hospital buildings
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HYWEL DDA: Health board has ‘breached its statutory duty’, says NHS Wales chief

A letter from the NHS Wales chief executive, published in papers for Thursday's board meeting, says Hywel Dda has failed…

Llandovery Hospital
Clinical Services Plan

LLANDOVERY: A year after ‘safe from closure’ promise, hospital set to lose its X-ray service

Board papers list "Removal of X ray service from Llandovery" in the first year of Hywel Dda's new hospital plan,…

Ambulance parked outside Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli.
Aberystwyth

LLANELLI: Prince Philip’s stroke beds are now four months from a decision

The consultation on moving inpatient stroke care to Carmarthen closed on Sunday after eight weeks, more than 700 questionnaires and…

Exterior of Bryngofal Ward at Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli, with the blue NHS ward sign visible by the entrance.
Dyfed Powys Police

LLANELLI: Prince Philip Hospital could lose west Wales’s only mental health crisis suite

Every adult detained by police in a mental health crisis across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion is currently taken to a…

a newborn baby lying in a hospital infant bassinet
Hywel Dda NHS

LLANELLI: Mums-to-be face Swansea trips for check-ups as maternity clinic changes

Pregnant women in Llanelli who plan to give birth at Singleton will lose the option of some appointments at Prince…

Caerau

MAESTEG: Dad’s extraordinary fortnight — cancer surgery, a first grandchild and a walk down the aisle

Eleven days after a six-hour operation to remove a rapidly growing sarcoma from his shoulder, Lee Brain walked his daughter…