Two new health centres for Ceredigion are nearing completion, according to Hywel Dda Health Board’s county director.

Peter Skitt told members of the co-ordination overview and scrutiny committee that it had taken some time but partnership working was now happening.

“Integration, it’s a very easy thing to say but it takes people and it takes joined-up thinking, and a shared outcome, to be able to get where we need to get to,” he told Ceredigion county councillors.

Mr Skitt added that delivering integration was “tricky”.

In Cardigan, the completion of the £23.8m integrated care centre is on target for completion in October and is due to ‘go live’ in December, councillors were told.

“There were some challenges with the site,” said Mr Skitt, but access to minor injury, GP practices, X-ray and out patient clinics will be available.

Cardigan ICC will also feature community resource teams, therapies, social care and access to mental health teams.

Aberearon’s ICC is currently being painted and the two-year, £3m refurbishment of a former local authority building is due for completion in August.

It will go live in September, said Mr Skitt, adding “there’s no reason to doubt those dates”.

Mr Skitt also told members that work was in the early stages to develop a similar ICC in Llandysul, and that plans are in the pipeline for Lampeter and Aberystwyth ICCs.

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