The preferred option aligns to the future roles of our hospitals and our strategy ‘A Healthier Mid and West Wales: Healthier lives, well lived’.
In the longer term, the intention is that the acute stroke unit could move into the new urgent and planned care hospital, once it is built. This would maintain stroke care alongside other urgent services on one site and support a more sustainable 24/7 specialist service.
In addition, it aligns with the NHS Wales Stroke Programme’s intention to have fewer, more specialised, stroke units in Wales.