Fears that a local surgery will close and patients be sent to see doctors miles away have been voiced, as a public consultation about its future is ongoing. There are questions over how healthcare in St Davids will look in the future after it was announced that , from October 31, this year. Residents are keen that Hywel Dda Health Board take over the surgery but are worried that instead it will be closed an patients sent to practices in Solva, Haverfordwest or Fishguard.
“We have an outstanding surgery here in St Davids and want to do everything we can to save it,” said local resident Sarah Saunders. The issue of the surgery was top of the agenda at this month’s meeting of St Davids City Council, attended by more than 150 local residents. Councillors discussed a motion to support the Save The St Davids Surgery Campaign to formally establish St Davids City Council’s commitment to facilitating active participation, and to emphasise the urgency of research and decisive action.
After the meeting the city council printed a bilingual leaflet encouraging residents to attend a health board drop-in consultation event later this month. “There are only two options,” said the city council. “[These are] that the health board takes on the surgery, saving it from closure, or that the surgery will close and patient dispersal will occur to surgeries in Solva, Fishguard and Haverfordwest.
“The surgery will close if the health board does not take it on.” St Davids residents ar.
