The British Dental Association's national director in Wales, Stuart Geddes, welcomed the move by the LHB.
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Every local health board (LHB) is shadowed by a CHC, except Powys, which has two councils.
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The LHB's timetable means services will be lost before new ones are in place, the CHC says.
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Hywel Dda LHB said it was disappointed that its CHC had opted for a referral last month.
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Just that has happened in the case of many of those put forward by the Hywel Dda LHB.
At Llanidloes, the LHB plans to cut 18 beds, close an X-ray unit, a birthing centre and outpatient services.
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The local health board (LHB) said it would work with the trust to use facilities at the hospital more efficiently.
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Builth Wells is the latest community to stage a meeting in protest at the LHB's plans for hospitals in Powys.
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However, the CHC says it has "serious reservations" about implementing the LHB's plans for Llangollen, Flint, Prestatyn and Blaenau Ffestiniog community hospitals.
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The LHB's chairman Chris Mann and chief executive Andy Williams met the town council to reassure members that the hospital would not be axed.
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In August last year, the LHB warned that speculation about the demise of the community hospital in Machynlleth was making it difficult to recruit staff.
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The LHB did not comment prior to the meeting, but in September its chief executive Andy Williams said he understood people's attachment to their hospital.
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As Grant Robinson from Aneurin Bevan LHB says bluntly: "Anyone who says this is only about coding would be missing an important opportunity to improve care".
The LHB was also instructed to remind staff to carry out full assessments, take specialist advice and consider assisting carers to access relevant training in future cases like this.
Thursday's meeting also passed a vote of no confidence in the chair and chief executive of the LHB, and Bach said it would inform assembly health minister Brian Gibbons.
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The minister referred to a scheme considered by Cardiff and Vale LHB which would force smokers and obese people to undergo courses of treatment before being allowed to have surgery.
They also included a line from Hywel Dda LHB saying they were listening to what the the people of mid Wales were telling them and stressing no decisions had been made yet.
Dr Gabrielle Heathcote, vice chair of the CHC, expressed concerned that Ms Griffiths' response letter had not referred the council's concerns over what they considered to be "inadequacy and failures of the LHB's consultation process".
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It would have been "wholly wrong if the health minister had in some way tried to interfere with the dialogue that was taking place between the LHB (local health board) and the National Clinical Forum, " he said.
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