Bron Y Garn Surgery, Maesteg

19/03/2026

🧠💉 Meningitis Vaccines – What Parents Need to Know

At Bron‑Y‑Garn Surgery, we’ve recently had a few questions about the difference between the MenB and MenACWY vaccines, especially for teenagers and young adults heading off to college, university or travelling.

Here’s a quick guide:

🔹 MenB protects against group B meningococcal disease
🔹 MenACWY protects against groups A, C, W & Y

🍼 MenB is given as part of the routine infant vaccination programme.
If your child had it as a baby, they usually won’t need it again as a teenager or adult unless there’s a specific medical reason.

🏥 In Wales, MenB is not offered on the NHS for older teenagers or young adults.
If you’d like MenB at this age, it would need to be arranged privately via a community pharmacy or private vaccination clinic.

✔️ MenACWY is available FREE on the NHS up to age 25 if missed earlier.
If you’re unsure whether your child has had theirs, please get in touch and we can check.

If you have any questions about meningitis protection or want to book a vaccination, our team at Bron‑Y‑Garn Surgery is here to help. 💙

17/03/2026

16/03/2026

Bron-Y-Garn Surgery activity data - January 2026
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09/03/2026

Bridgend Social Prescribing Day Celebration 💛
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27/02/2026

⭐️ Feel Good for Life sessions - March 2026 ⭐️

22/02/2026

We will be closed for staff training on Tuesday 24th February from 1pm until 6.30pm. We will re-open at 8am on Wednesday 25th February. If you have an urgent problem during this time, please call the Practice, and you will be re-directed. Thank you.

20/02/2026

❗️Health Visitors Update

You may be aware that some Health Visitors in the CTM Health Board area are taking industrial action over the next 4 weeks (23rd February to 20th March 2026).

Our priority during this period is the safety and accessibility of services provided to you and your family and we are working hard to minimise the impact you experience.

However, to keep services safe and ensure we can support families with more complex and urgent needs, we are having to restrict some activities, including routine appointments which have already been cancelled.

Where the health board has not contacted you to cancel appointments, please note these are expected to take place as normal. If you are unsure if group drop-in sessions have been cancelled, please contact us (see below).

Because normal methods of contact may be disrupted, we have established a single point of access which we would kindly ask you to use as the main way to contact the Health Visiting service. You will find the details below:

☎️01443 803930
📩CTM.SPOAHealthVisiting@wales.nhs.uk

We aim to respond to all enquiries within two hours.

There is also a website which you may find useful: https://ctmuhb.nhs.wales/services/childrens-health-visiting/

Remember, if your baby or child is unwell and you are concerned, you should contact your GP or 111 as you normally would.

We are very sorry for the disruption and any concern caused by this issue. Please be assured that we will continue working hard to minimise the extent to which are affected.

20/02/2026

We have received notification that the Health Visitors within CTMUHB will be on strike from 23rd February to 20th March 2026.

If you are unable to contact your Health Visitor Team in the normal way, please call or email using the following contact details:



SPOA Health Visiting 01443 803930

CTM.SPOAHealthVisiting@wales.nhs.uk

We will be in contact if your booked appointment at Bron-Y-Garn needs to be cancelled.

13/02/2026

Bron-Y-Garn Surgery activity data - December 2025
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02/02/2026

‼️ We are back online ‼️
Apologies for any inconvenience caused

02/02/2026

‼️ Phone lines are down ‼️
We are working hard to rectify the situation and will hopefully be up and running soon