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| £350m Gwent super-hospital plan given go-ahead | £350m Gwent super-hospital plan given go-ahead |
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| Plans for a new £350m hospital in south Wales have been given the go-ahead. | Plans for a new £350m hospital in south Wales have been given the go-ahead. |
| Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the Specialist and Critical Care Centre near Cwmbran was expected to open in 2022. | Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the Specialist and Critical Care Centre near Cwmbran was expected to open in 2022. |
| Plans were put on hold in 2009, before being put back on the agenda a year later. | Plans were put on hold in 2009, before being put back on the agenda a year later. |
| The new hospital, to be built at Llanfrechfa Grange, is part of a plan to modernise health services run by the Aneurin Bevan health board in Gwent. | The new hospital, to be built at Llanfrechfa Grange, is part of a plan to modernise health services run by the Aneurin Bevan health board in Gwent. |
| Mr Gething said the project had "strong support" locally and was a "positive step" in the drive to improve health care. | Mr Gething said the project had "strong support" locally and was a "positive step" in the drive to improve health care. |
| "I am confident that bringing together complex and more acute services on one hospital site will allow the local health board to secure a range of benefits which will improve the quality of care for patients," he said. | "I am confident that bringing together complex and more acute services on one hospital site will allow the local health board to secure a range of benefits which will improve the quality of care for patients," he said. |
| Existing acute services at the Royal Gwent and St Woolos hospitals in Newport, and Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny are likely to see changes when the new hospital opens, the Welsh Government said. | |
| It would also be expected to play a strong regional role working with major hospitals run by neighbouring health boards in south Wales. |