Health plan set for 2014 WORK on a new specialist critical care centre in Torfaen is expected to start in 2014, according to a Welsh government plan.

Yesterday, it outlined how it is planning to spend £15 billion on roads, schools, hospitals, housing and other projects over the next decade.

It also said that work to turn part of the A465 into a dual carriageway and improvements to junction 28 on the M4 are scheduled to start the same year.

The plan says that while a revised outline business case is being prepared by the Aneurin Bevan Health Board for the specialist critical care centre near Cwmbran, work is expected to start in 2014 and completed by 2017-18.

The plan lists the hospital as costing £273 million – £43 million more than envisaged in spring 2011 after an in-depth review of the project.

Construction of the dual carriageway on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road between Gilwern and Brynmawr is scheduled to begin early in 2014, the plan said.

The project will cost between £190 and £200 million.

Work on improvements to the M4’s junction 28 Tredegar Park will start in late 2014, the plan said, and will cost between £20 million and £30 million.

Officials will begin to look for a contractor in spring next year.