How then, do you explain the contrasting scores for the two main hospitals in Cardiff and Vale UHB?

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Cardiff and Vale UHB chairman David Francis said it was the "final step" in the process of making the concept of the Children's Hospital for Wales a reality.

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There are increasing signs that ministers are spooked by the sheer scale of the row over the Betsi Cadwaladr UHB plans to transfer new babies needing the highest level of treatment out of North Wales and to the Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral.

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"The approval of the full business case marks the culmination of more than a decade of work by the UHB and its predecessor organisations, the Welsh government and significantly the Noah's Ark Appeal, without whose tireless support the first phase of the Children's Hospital of Wales would not have come to fruition, " he said.

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