Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:09 pm on 19 July 2017.
Cabinet Secretary, it was a pleasure accompanying you to the turf-cutting ceremony at the new critical care centre, now known as the Grange university hospital, on Monday in Cwmbran. I did tweet a nice picture of us, with you with a shovel digging the foundations. This new hospital has been a long time in the pipeline, as we know, and you have the virtue of being the Minister who actually got to cut the turf—many of your predecessors didn’t get around to doing that. But, would you agree with me that it’s more than just about the building? We want to see that the new hospital develops into a world-class centre of excellence and innovation. I know it was once considered as a possible centre for neuroscience, but I think that fell by the wayside. So, what work are you doing, and is the Welsh Government doing, to ensure that when the new hospital does finally open—hopefully in a few years’ time—that it really will be a hospital that will be world class, that will be something that the people of south Wales can be really proud of, and that will attract the brightest and best medical staff?