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£600m to create unique partnership between health boards
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABMU) and Hywel Dda health boards and Swansea University are set to submit an ambitious £600 million plan aimed at transforming healthcare through a ‘unique partnership’.
The project, know as a Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), is due to be considered by the Welsh government.
The collaboration involves: Morriston Hospital - Swansea's largest - would be expanded and focus exclusively on the care of the sickest patients; land next to the hospital would be used to build a life science research campus. The aim is to attract international and home-grown pharmaceutical or medical technology firms - with west Wales an ‘ideal test-bed’ for research and collaboration with the NHS; and a health and well-being academy at Singleton Hospital in Swansea would become a centre of excellence for out-of hospital care, day cases and diagnostic tests.
Prof Hamish Laing, medical director at ABMU health board, commented: “There has been too much of a piecemeal approach to change (in the NHS) over the years. We knew what we've wanted to do - just didn't have the mechanisms to do it."
"The NHS in south west Wales is under a huge pressure, a lot of financial pressure and workload pressure. We see Arch as our way of planning our way out of that - to address the primary problems, not just a sticking plaster."
Prof Marc Clement, vice president of Swansea University said: “Arch covers a population of one million and 30,000 healthcare workers. That's attractive to the private sector - it's a relatively homogenous stable population - a wonderful living laboratory, a test-bed for innovation."
“We're seeing a level of interest (from international companies) that I haven't seen in my career previously.”
The decision on ARCH is expected in a few weeks.
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