Thursday 26 July 2012

Health Focus Group

I think they make the posters as boring as they possibly can to put people off from going.
This one is in English and Welsh, and says:

"The next meeting of the Hay-on-Wye/Talgarth health focus group will be held on 1st August 2012 at 10.30am in the Community Centre in Hay-on-Wye.
Amongst the items for discussion will be the Local Health Board's Vision for Healthcare Services for South East Powys and arrangements for future meetings."

Sounds dry as dust, doesn't it?
And yet part of the Vision for Healthcare will be a discussion about the possible closure of Bronllys Hospital, and the possibility of moving some of the beds to a new care home next to Hay doctor's surgery, which is part of the development plans that include the school and all the controversy that surrounds that.
Since it's 10.30am on Wednesday morning, I'll be at work. I suspect a lot of people who might have liked to go will also be at work, and the announcement of the date is at quite short notice to arrange time off to be able to go.

I hope some people manage to get there, though.

3 comments:

Hedd Wyn said...

Looks like yet more cynical manipulation to bring in vast profits for HADSCA (from the sale of the sports pitch) and for "a developer" (who will build the care home). Do I detect the rank stench of Gaufron here?

Anonymous said...

How do you move ten beds from an existing hospital to a non-existant care home that and isn't even approved by a county council? Sounds like the ever-benevolent Morelli is pulling the strings of his HADSCA co-director councillor puppets yet again.

And yes, that is the rank stench of Gaufron. Would someone please pass Leon the deodorant?

Anonymous said...

Heard yesterday that Llanigon School has been saved for the time being because it cannot be closed until the new Hay school has been built! Any one know if this is correct?