Work to build a new £350 million hospital in Cwmbran, which will serve Caerphilly County Borough, has begun.
The new hospital, which has been known as the Specialist and Critical Care Centre up until now, is to be called The Grange University Hospital.
When built, the new hospital will treat patients who need complex and acute emergency care in the Gwent region – which includes Caerphilly County Borough. This means patients will no longer have to travel to Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital in an emergency.
Welsh Government funding for the new 470-bed hospital was confirmed in October last year. The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board expects the hospital in Llanfrechfa Grange to open in the Spring of 2021.
Judith Paget, Chief Executive of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, said: “The Grange University Hospital is a major part of our Clinical Futures Strategy and everybody associated with the Health Board is extremely excited that work has now started on this state-of-the-art facility.
“It will help us to create a much improved care environment, timely access to emergency care, and ensure patients get the best outcomes from their care.”
Surely this is what should have been built on the Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr hospital site and was what most people were expecting.
It will be a nightmare journey for people visiting the new Critical Care Unit via public transport.
Another illogical decision by the Powers that be – a hospital serving Caerphilly County Borough – but built in Cwmbran !
The article says “This means patients will no longer have to travel to Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital in an emergency.” as if this is somehow advantageous to everyone. Starting from Castle Street, Caerffili Googlemaps offers a choice of three routes to Llanfrechfa Grange for use according to traffic. These vary from just over 17 miles to over 22 miles. It will take someone who is sick or injured around forty minutes to get to the new hospital,
The shortest route to the existing Royal Gwent is listed as 11.6 miles, the Heath Hospital is a mere 6 miles from the same spot. The inevitable delays will cost many, unrecorded, lives. Once again the health and well being of people from Caerffili, Ystrad Mynach, Llanbradach and other places suffers because we are considered part of Gwent and cannot use our own Glamorgan services.
People should be shouting about this appalling waste of tax payers money since ystrad hospital was supposedly built to replace our beloved caerphilly miners hospital , instead its just a giant surgery intergrated withnthe OAP hospital that was demolished to build a new sports centre where the OAP hospital once sat . Its absolutely scandalous that the council can see fit to waste such an enourmous amount of money on buildings that evidently have NOT served the community like the public were lead to believe where ysrad mynach hospital was concerned , it cost one of my relatives his life in 2013 down to being in a room alone where he could not be observed properly, and the anearin bevan health board insult his wife with a pittance figure of compensation like if they are ” poor” but can waste millions on buildings that turn out to be a fruitless venture which only lines the pockets of the poxy councillors making the decisions which is a well known fact . They need to get more facilities at the hospital at ystrad mynach GIANT CLINIC that is just an unfinished promise to people in the community , instead of squandering millions of tax payers money yet again ….. ???
It is nothing to do with the council it is all the responsibility of the Welsh talking shop or senydd or whatever these people call themselves currently.
I totally agree with you that these people are more concerned with themselves and their ridiculously high salaries than providing health care to the standards we enjoyed 50 years ago. As lomg as people vote Labour and Plaid this is what you will get.
600 employees ,600 parking spaces for them and none for the users of the hospital just like at Ystrad Hospital and don`t get me started on the Royal Gwent Hospital parking