Plans to greatly improve the basic site infrastructure, including access roads, car parks and walkways, at Morriston Hospital in Swansea have been approved by Welsh Health Minister Edwina Hart.
With the approval of the first business case the Trust can now progress with developing more detailed plans for funding the replacement of the hospital’s 1940s buildings, for consideration by the Minister. As other developments come through, the Trust says duplication of surgical, outpatient and diagnostic services, and associated costs, will be reduced, enabling more money to be channelled to frontline care.
Subject to successful completion of the business case process, work should start on the infrastructure improvements later this year or early in 2009.
A second phase of a three-phase business case approval process for capital developments in the NHS in Wales will concentrate on clinical reconfiguration.
