text: Fresh concerns over Ffestiniog Memorial hospital - North Wales Live
  Fresh concerns over Ffestiniog Memorial hospital
  A COMMUNITY group continue to be concerned over the future of their local hospital.
  A COMMUNITY group continues to be concerned over the future of their local hospital.
  The Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital Defence Committee said this week that patients from the Blaenau Ffestiniog area who receive treatment at Ysbyty Gwynedd, are being transferred back to Ysbyty Alltwen or elsewhere, and not to the town's hospital – the future of which is currently under review.
  The committee is waiting for the review, which is expected to be presented to health minister Lesley Griffiths within the next few months, but say that patients not being referred to the hospital could skew occupancy figures for the hospital, and threaten its future.
  Defence committee chairman Geraint V Jones said they would put pressure on the health minister for answers on the incidents, and ask for the opportunity to see any review before any decisions were made from its findings.
  He added it was important to draw the minister's attention to the fact that more use should be made of the facilities at Ffestiniog, and to point out the number of medical clinics which have been stopped in Blaenau in recent times.