Campaign Letters 2006 to 2007
GP Responses To Chief Executive Andy Williams Oct 2006 Builth & Llanwrtyd Medical
Practice
Dear Mr Williams
Re: Proposed Changes to Medical Services in the Builth Wells Locality
We write with an initial response to the proposals, which you presented to the
LHB on the 26th September. These have been discussed in some detail by the partners
in the Practice and we are extremely concerned and disappointed by the overall
lack of substance and definition in the proposals.
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Haygarth Medical Practice
Dear Andy,
As a Practice we are absolutely stunned by your complete failure to honour your words to the Practice. After coming into post you came and saw all the Partners and asked us to work with you. You told us you had no plans to close Bronllys Hospital now or in the immediate future. You gave us your word that if at any stage you were planning to close Bronllys Hospital; you would come to the Practice to discuss it with us first. We accept you spoke to Dr O’Reilly in his capacity as Clinical Lead but he was sworn to secrecy as a result of that meeting and was unable to discuss with the full partnership your intentions, therefore this came to us as a complete surprise as we had always trusted you and your word...
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Llanidloes Medical Practice
Dear Andy,
I am writing on behalf of the Arwystli Medical Practice.
As we have made clear before, we have no confidence in the present proposals
for the reconfiguration of community hospitals in Powys and specifically for
the removal of all inpatient and outpatient services from Llanidloes hospital.
The driving force for this appears to be totally financial and not based on an
accurate assessment of the health needs of the area...
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An open letter from Haygarth Surgery To Chief Executive Andy Williams Nov 2006 "You
will be aware that the Board paper "Doing More, Doing Better" has generated
massive concern about the future of healthcare in our area and at Bronllys
Hospital in particular."
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Builth Hospital Casualty Closure Nov 2006 
Response from Kirsty Williams AM (pdf)
BACH response to Assembly Members and CHC
(pdf)
"Friends" response to Assembly
Members (pdf)
"Friends" response to Chris
Mann, Chair Powys LHB (pdf)
GP Responses on Maintenance of Hopsital Serices Nov 2006 Builth GP letter to Andy
Williams on maintenance of hospital services
(pdf)
Llanidloes GP letter to Andy Williams on maintenance of hospital services (pdf)
Five Days At Llewellyn Ward, Bronllys
Five Days At Llewellyn Ward (pdf)
Bulk Campaign Letters to Chief Executive Andy Williams Nov 2006 
BACH (pdf)
Knighton (pdf)
Bronllys (pdf)
Llanidloes (pdf)
BACH comments on Local Health Board meeting held at Bronllys
(29/11/06) Nov 2006 
Letter to Mid Wales Journal - BACH Chair (pdf)
Ann Lloyd, Chief Executive of NHS Wales writes with concern to Andy Williams Jan 2007 Ann Lloyd, Chief Executive NHS Wales
I am writing to raise my concerns in respect of two correspondence chains relating to Powys LHB, which have been sent to the Assembly recently as follows:
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Andy Williams, Chief Executive Powys LHB
I am writing in reply to your letter of the 20th November 2006 concerning the above.
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Llanidloes Questions For Valentine's Day Feb 2007 
Llanidloes Questions (pdf)
Powys GPs set the record straight with Health Minister Brian Gibbons Feb 2007 
Briefing Document (pdf)
BACH Newsletter Mar 2007 3,000 copies distributed
BACH Newsletter (pdf)
Builth GPs initial response to Clinical Governance Support and Development Unit Aug 2007 An interim report, available for download here (pdf) from the Clinical Governance Support and Development Unit (CGSDU) has identified serious concerns with the provision of Minor Injuries Services (MIS) at Builth Hospital. This emerged as part of a wider review into the arrangements for clinical governance and patient safety within the provider services of Powys Local Health Board.
It has been suggested by the CGSDU that the best way of resolving these concerns is to transfer the MIS from the hospital to the GP surgery in Builth Wells.
This paper details the practice response to this proposal.
Full GP Response (pdf)