The three proposals to reconfigure health services published by Hywel Dda University Health Board have been met with anger by local Assembly Member Paul Davies. All three options being issued for consultation will result in Withybush hospital being downgraded to a community hospital.
He said, “The three proposals that Hywel Dda health board are consulting on signify a commitment by the health board to centralise services further again and will be disastrous for the people of Pembrokeshire. I’m extremely angry that the health board continues to ignore the views of the people living in my constituency and that as a result of all these proposals Withybush will be downgraded and patients will have to travel further for vital hospital care. The health board’s own impact assessment recognises the impact of travelling further on patients (and their families) in rural and isolated areas in west Pembrokeshire and yet these proposals have still been published. I will be raising this issue as a matter of urgency with the Welsh Government and I will be doing all that I can to oppose these catastrophic proposals.”
