In June 2018, the Welsh Government published ‘A Healthier Wales: Our Plan for Health and Social Care’. The ambition of A Healthier Wales is for the health and social care systems to work together, to help people live well in their communities, meet their health and care needs effectively and provide more services closer to or at home, so that people only need to use a hospital for treatment that cannot be provided safely anywhere else.

 

The new integrated model of care and wellbeing sits under the overarching Powys Health and Care Strategy.
 

We asked local communities in north Powys and people who provide services, both in and out of the county, to tell us what works well now and what could be improved in the future. To help focus our conversations we looked at how we deliver services in three distinct ways:

• At home and in the community
• At a district or regional level
• At a county or out of county level

We discovered people are enthusiastic about transforming health and care services in north Powys, in part by delivering more services in county, closer to where people live. In developing the model of care and wellbeing we took care to keep a balance between ambition and reality. This will help us deliver meaningful change, within the boundaries of what we can realistically achieve. As we develop more detailed action plans, we will test our ability to deliver the new model, continue to share information, ask for feedback and explain the reasons behind our decisions.