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Welsh health board considers closing urgent primary care centres at three hospitals

Holyhead, Tremadog and Bangor UPCCs may shut as Betsi Cadwaladr University health board struggles with funding A struggling Welsh health board could close urgent primary care centres at three hospitals, citing funding and recruitment issues, prompting widespread criticism. Betsi Cadwaladr University health board, which serves about a quarter of Wales’s population, said it was consulting on ending urgent primary care centres (UPCCs) at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley in Holyhead, Ysbyty Alltwen in Tremado