Charity says Welsh Assembly must pay hospital running costs

By Tara Craig, Third Sector Online, 27 July 2007

A Welsh charity that raised £6.8m to build a children's hospital is fighting to make the Welsh Assembly pay for the £3m annual running costs after learning that the NHS will not fund phase two of the development.

Noah’s Ark Appeal began fundraising in 2000 to pay for the construction of the Children’s Hospital for Wales, which opened in Cardiff in 2005. However, Cardiff Local Health Board decided this week not to fund plans for phase two of the hospital, which include operating theatres, an intensive care unit...

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