LAST week I learned something new - and very good - about the NHS locally: the Acute Response Team. This marvellous team of nurseled practitioners allowed my husband to be released from hospital and to have three daily visits to administer intravenous antibiotics until his course was completed.

I was very impressed by this team who enable so much good work to be done outside a hospital, thus freeing up beds and staff for others who cannot be treated at home. I was pleased that my husband was away from possible infections which can be picked up in hospital despite all the best efforts of the staff. The team also offers blood transfusions, fluid replacement, rapid access to wound management and to symptom control, among other procedures.

They have been operating for only 3- 4 years, but are one of the best things I have heard of in many years. They are also very pleasant people!

But then we have the dire news about A&E. No matter how the Health Board tries to dress it up, this means that more people in Pembrokeshire are to be put at risk.

Why do they choose Pembrokeshire?

Far more distant from other A&E centres than Carmarthen or Llanelli. And why think that it is only 30+ miles to travel? We live 50+ miles from Glangwili and it is a long and uncomfortable journey. Glangwili seems to be “full up” anyway, and the car parks certainly are!

However the Health Board seems to be deaf to any of our appeals and will no doubt ignore this just as they ignore everything else.

SALLY A WILLIAMS

(formerly chairman, Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust)

Dinas Cross