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Meeting:  Maesteg Hospital & Llynfi Valley Health & Wellbeing Centre (10 March 2026)

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Meeting Readout | Maesteg Hospital / Llynfi Valley Health & Wellbeing Centre 

10 March 2026 

Attendance 

  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM UHB) representatives: o Jonathan Morgan, Chair 
    • Paul Mears, Chief Executive Officer 
    • Claire Thompson, Executive Director of Strategy and Transformation 
    • Dale Stolzenberg, Assistant Director of Transformation 
  • Local Elected Representatives: o Cllr Paul Davies 
    • Cllr Malcolm James 
    • Cllr Martin Hughes 
  • Bridgend County Borough Council representatives: o Cllr Jon Spanswick, Leader 
    • Cllr Jane Gebbie, Deputy Leader / Cabinet Member Social Services, Health and Wellbeing 
    • Cllr Neelo Farr, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Economic Development and Housing 
    • Claire Marchant, Corporate Director – Social Services and Wellbeing 

 

  • Apologies Received 
    • Huw Irranca-Davies MS 
    • Cllr Chris Davies 
    • Cllr Philip Jenkins 
    • Cllr Ross Thomas (also serves as Chair of Maesteg Hospital League of Friends) 
    • Cllr Richard Collins 

 

What Was Covered 

CTM UHB outlined the current position regarding the provision of health and wellbeing services in the Llynfi Valley, Maesteg Community Hospital and the development of a health and wellbeing centre. 

CTM UHB noted that a briefing on community bed provision, care home provision and Hospital@Home services in Bridgend County is available for sharing, alongside this meeting readout. 

Supply Chain Partners are currently undertaking non-site-specific design activities, including further developing the thinking around spaces provided for health and local authority services, as well as ongoing site survey activities at the alternative site at Ewenny Road, Maesteg. This ongoing activity does not pre-empt any decision on the location of a future health and wellbeing centre for the Llynfi Valley, but will provide further confidence about the information available upon which any decision is taken. No decision will be taken until after the Senedd election in May 2026. 

CTM UHB will ensure the feasibility study information for the options under consideration, including Maesteg Hospital and the alternative Ewenny Road site, is publicly available before any decision is taken. 

CTM UHB noted that Llais (an independent statutory body, set up by the Welsh Government to ensure that the views and experiences of individuals are considered in the delivery of health and wellbeing services) will be holding its own feedback event for local people at Maesteg Town Hall on 26 March 2026. The event will consider the future of health and wellbeing services in the Llynfi Valley. 

Llais will provide feedback to CTM UHB, and this feedback will be the basis for further engagement with the community. The pre-election period will begin on 8 April 2026 and therefore no engagement will take place from then until after the Senedd election, which takes place on 7 May 2026. 

Issues Raised by Local Representatives 

  • Cllrs raised the wider CTM UHB service changes / delivery within the Bridgend County Borough and BCBC and CTM UHB reaffirmed their commitment to work together to deliver high-quality, accessible services for local people 
  • Cllrs queried whether CTM UHB staff could attend the Llais event on 26 March 2026. CTM UHB confirmed staff are free to attend should they wish 
  • Cllrs queried the Llais event format, and CTM UHB agreed to ask Llais to publicly clarify this 

 

Next Steps 

  1. CTM UHB to share the following with Councillors and on the HealthyFuturesMaesteg website for full transparency:
    • Meeting Readout from 10 March 2026 
    • Briefing on community bed provision, care home provision and Hospital@Home services in Bridgend County Borough 
  2. CTM UHB to ask Llais to confirm publicly the format for its community feedback event on Thursday 26 March 2026 
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