Written question WQ92919
- Asked by
- Andrew RT DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 12 days
Question
What was the process for the decision to build the new Cardiff Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch specifically as opposed to other proposed locations?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
When the Strategic Outline Programme for the new cancer hospital was endorsed in 2015, Welsh Ministers agreed that the new hospital would be located in Whitchurch. There were a number of reasons for this including patient accessibility based on attendance statistics; the reputation of Velindre in the Whitchurch area; and the potential for a land swap with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, reducing the overall cost to the NHS.
In 2015, Velindre NHS Trust commissioned a review of potential sites within the Whitchurch area. It concluded the existing site was too small therefore it focussed on two new sites. The first was close to the existing location owned by Velindre NHS Trust and available to be developed but separated by the disused Whitchurch Hospital. The alternative, and much larger greenfield site, was to the north of the Whitchurch estate and owned by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.