A new Motor Neurone Disease (MND) specialist clinic is to take place every three months in Cardigan Hospital.

The clinic, provided by specialist doctors visiting from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, is one of the new services available for patients in the Cardigan area.

The specialist clinic provides a local, community based service to support symptom management of the disease, which attacks the motor neurones and can affect mobility, speech and more.

Hywel Dda University Health Board’s Executive lead for the Cardigan development, Director of Strategy & Integration / Therapies & Health Science, Kathryn Davies said: “The MND clinics in Cardigan illustrate the type of new service we can deliver locally in the future as we provide new ways of delivering care.”

Information about the clinics and plans for the new integrated care resource centre and provision of integrated health and social care across Ceredigion, was provided at a drop-in event on Thursday .

It forms part of Hywel Dda University Health Board’s ongoing schedule of activities to inform and engage with the local community.

The event enabled people to learn more about, and give their view on, the plans for the new facility, which are currently being considered by Welsh Government following submission of the draft Outline Business Case for the development.

The new resource centre aims to provide a new and modern healthcare service for the local population in Cardigan and its surrounding areas.

A small group of stakeholders has also been involved in looking specifically at the community nursing service in Cardigan and producing satisfaction questionnaires to gather feedback from patients on the service.

Further information events are being planned in October and details will be announced in the near future, keep updated by visiting www.hywelddahb.wales.nhs.uk/cardigan.