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Better Together

We are seeking your initial views on adult physical and mental health community services in Powys by 27 July 2025

Thank you for your interest in Better Together. It is our big conversation with you to shape the future of safe, quality health services for Powys and ensure delivery of our Health and Care Strategy.

We are committed to working with patients, service users, communities, health and care staff, and partner organisations to improve health outcomes and make services more efficient and effective.

Whilst we have some excellent foundations to build on, we now need to radically change the way we provide services so that we can meet increasing demand and the future needs of the population.

We have a duty of care to ensure that we provide high quality services to our population. We also have a duty to live within our means. To achieve this, we need to consider options for how and where we could provide services in the future. This might mean patients need to access services in a different way or in a different place.

We will do this by working ‘Better Together’ with local people, partners and staff to shape health and care services that are sustainable, effective, and focused on what matters most to our communities.

During 2025 we are focusing on adult physical and mental health community services. After this, we will focus on planned care (such as routine outpatients, surgical day cases and investigations which help to identify a health condition or disease) followed by services which support children, families and women’s health.

Better Together 

Seeking your views on adult physical and mental health community services in Powys.

9 June -27 July

www.haveyoursaypowys.wales/better-together-summer25

Please give your feedback

To request print or easy read:  Call 01874 442 917

Email: powys.engagement@wales.nhs.uk

Write to: Better Together, Powys Teaching Health Board, Glasbury House, Bronllys Hospital , Bronllys, Powys LD3 0LY.

This website explains why change is needed, our level of ambition to transform healthcare services, and how you can have your say.

When do we want views by?

We’d like views by midnight on Sunday 27 July 2025.

We invite you to view all the documents including:

1. Read the Engagement Document
2. Have a look at the information we published earlier this year about the Case for Change
3. And then complete the survey

Public Drop in Events

Public Drop In Events

We are holding a series of drop in and public events during July.

Drop in sessions run from 5-7pm on the following dates:

1 July - The Gallery, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon

2 July -The Assembly Room, Town Hall, Welshpool

3 July - The Lesser Hall, The Welfare, Ystradgynlais

10 July - Powys Suite, The Metropole, Llandrindod Wells

16 July - Upstairs Function Room, Hafan yr Afan, Newtown

Please do drop by to find out more and give us your views

If you are interested in attending a workshop session ( 2-4pm) on the same date please call the number below.

You can also

"A Better Together folder will be available at all libraries so people can read the full Engagement Document and complete a paper version of the survey if they don't have access to a PC/online device."

One question we are often asked

One question we are often asked is why there is no District General Hospital in Powys. Our small population and the large and rural nature of the county means it is not safe or practical to provide a District General Hospital (DGH) within Powys. DGHs need to serve large populations so that they can bring together the right skills and services to treat you in an emergency. Many experts would say that a DGH should serve a population at least three times the size of Powys. Our
geography is also a challenge. Even if a DGH could be provided in a central Powys location, most people in north and south Powys would still be closer to a DGH elsewhere.

Therefore, we buy many of these specialist hospital services for Powys residents from neighbouring health boards in Wales and neighbouring NHS Trusts in England. This process is called “commissioning”. We have strong relationships with our neighbours to provide the care you need.