Priority groups only can chase up jabs
Council leader Emlyn Dole POLITICALLY CORRECT
HYWEL Dda University Health Board is asking people in vaccine priority groups 1 to 3 to get in touch as soon as possible if they have not yet received a Covid-19 vaccine appointment.
Health services are being inundated with calls, emails and social media messages from the public enquiring about the vaccine.
If you are not in one of the priority groups listed below please do not contact the health board or your GP regarding the vaccine at this time.
Steve Moore, chief executive of Hywel Dda UHB, said: “We are confident that everyone in priority groups 1 to 4 will be offered a vaccine by February 15 thanks to the amazing efforts of vaccinating teams across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
“However, people change phone numbers or move to a new house and may not always update their contact details with health services.
“This is why we want to make absolutely sure no one has missed an appointment for their vaccination.”
Phonelines are open Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Priority group 1 – older adult care home staff – please contact 0300 303 8322 or email your name, job title and organisation, mobile phone number and nearest mass vaccination centre to Covidenquiries.hdd@wales. nhs.uk
Priority group 2 – frontline health and social care staff (including agency) – please contact 0300 303 8322 or email your name, job title and organisation, mobile phone number and nearest mass vaccination centre to Covidenquiries.hdd@wales. nhs.uk
Priority group 2 – people aged 80 and over – please contact your GP practice directly.
Priority group 3 – people aged 75 to 79 – please phone 0300 303 8322 or email Covidenquiries.hdd@wales. nhs.uk
MORE than 100 community groups across the Dyfed-powys Police force area will benefit from funds of over £200,000.
It follows budgeting events that have taken place across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys through neighbourhood policing teams.
The money has come from an initial investment of £140,000 from Dyfedpowys police and crime commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn, who committed £10,000 to each neighbourhood policing area.
Several of the neighbourhood policing teams were successful in securing additional funds from local partners and organisations, bringing the total funds available to £213,500, which resulted in more money for local community groups to apply for.
Mr Llywelyn and Dyfedpowys Chief Constable Mark Collins recently met virtually with all neighbourhood policing teams to thank them for working with local partners and community groups to run the participatory budgeting events.
Mr Llywelyn said: “I’m delighted to see that this innovative approach to community funding has been such a success, and I’m grateful for the work of our neighbourhood policing teams for managing and running the events in each area.”
Superintendent Ifan Charles, the force’s lead for participatory budgeting, added: “As the events started to take place across the Dyfed-powys area at the end of last year, we were pleased with the high level of interest from groups in applying to take part.”
One of the successful applicants in the Llanelli Participatory Budgeting event was CYCA, which is a centre that provides support services for children, young people, and families across Carmarthenshire and beyond in the fields of emotional health and well-being, training, play, education, and physical health.
Tracy Pike, CEO at CYCA Carmarthenshire, said: “CYCA are delighted to receive this funding as we are aware that there are young people in the ward who require counselling support.”
I BET I wasn’t the only one biting my nails on Sunday afternoon as the country enjoyed a welcome break from reality and tuned in to watch Wales’s first game of the Six Nations.
It wasn’t a relaxing experience, especially in the last few minutes of the game, but it was a good match with traditional friendly rivalry between two proud Celtic nations.
I must also congratulate Scotland on their triumphant win against England at Twickenham, their first in 38 years. What a fantastic match, which sets us up for a very exciting tournament.
Of course, one thing was very different this year and that was the empty seats in the empty stadiums. The Six Nations is an occasion when usually we all come together to enjoy the atmosphere and lose ourselves in 80 minutes of the game, not to mention the pre-match build-up.
This year, like everything else, we have got to do things differently. As much as we would all like to get together with friends and family to enjoy the game, we have to stay home and cheer Wales on from our sofas.
But we are the land of song, and it doesn’t matter if we’re in our living room instead of the Principality Stadium. I’m sure we can all rouse the Welsh dragon in our hearts as we join the boys in singing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, our national anthem, and feel the sense of pride we have in our great nation.