{"id":298617,"date":"2026-02-23T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:30:07","slug":"new-33m-unit-to-be-built-at-rhyls-royal-alexandra-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298617\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u00a333m unit to be built at Rhyl&#8217;s Royal Alexandra Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new development, due to be completed next year, will also include a 14-bed ready-to-go-home reablement unit, bringing NHS and social care teams together to support patients returning home after medical and surgical treatment in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radiology services will be expanded, and four new dental suites built with increased training opportunities for dental nurses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the first phase of a wider \u00a360m investment in the hospital. A business case for the second phase, which would redevelop and improve the existing hospital buildings, is expected to be submitted by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans to develop a new hospital on the Royal Alexandra site were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-25021891\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first approved in 2013<\/a> but by 2018 estimated costs had doubled and the plans were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said rising costs meant the original proposal was no longer affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new development, due to be completed next year, will also include a 14-bed ready-to-go-home reablement unit, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-298617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}