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| Plans for a new £350m hospital in south Wales have been given the go-ahead, 12 years after it was first proposed. | Plans for a new £350m hospital in south Wales have been given the go-ahead, 12 years after it was first proposed. |
| Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the Specialist and Critical Care Centre near Cwmbran should open in 2022. | Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the Specialist and Critical Care Centre near Cwmbran should open in 2022. |
| First proposed in 2004, the plans were put on hold in 2009 before being put back on the agenda a year later. | First proposed in 2004, the 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. | |
| 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. | 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. |
| The new centre would also be expected to play a strong regional role, working with major hospitals run by neighbouring health boards in south Wales. | The new centre would also be expected to play a strong regional role, working with major hospitals run by neighbouring health boards in south Wales. |
| Tina Donnelly, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said the union was "pleased to see action has started to make this a reality". | |
| "We look forward to seeing this new hospital benefit patients throughout south Wales whilst also relieving pressure from surrounding NHS services," she added. |