Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is holding a meeting later today at the Twyn Community Centre, in Caerphilly town.
The meeting, being held between 1.30pm and 4pm is a chance for residents to find out how health services in the area will be developed in the coming years.
For more information call Hannah O’Brien-Jones on 01633 435908 or email Hannah.obrienjones@wales.nhs.uk.
What is happening to our local health service is no secret, it is not as good as it was and will get worse in future.
Forty years ago I could have turned up at the Market Street surgery with a wound and had it sutured on the spot. If I had suffered a broken bone in an accident I would have been taken to the Miners Hospital on the outskirts of the town, and had the bones set and plastered. If I had a heart attack I would have been taken to the same hospital and given the appropriate treatement. I would have then spent my recovery time in a ward at the same hospital, within easy travelling distance for loved ones to visit.
Medical science has advanced during my lifetime, which is a good thing for us all. Medical provision and care has gone backwards and continues to regress. Various governments of Conservative and Labour persuasions have come and gone but the facts are that we are cared for less now when we are ill or injured than we were before.