Cabinet Health Secretary Jeremy Miles visits IP5 to see £7.6m facility to transform how treatments are manufactured in South East Wales
We were delighted to welcome Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Jeremy Miles to our facility in Newport today/this week.
The Cabinet Secretary visited our Imperial Park Building no. 5 (IP5) to see the location of a new £7.6m facility which will transform the way life-saving treatments are made for patients in South East Wales, during the visit, the Cabinet Secretary saw how work on the new facility, where these medicines will be manufactured, is going. He also met our staff working hard to deliver it.
The new facility will host radiopharmacy, a service that manufactures radioactive injectables for patients, mostly used in scans for diagnosis purposes for serious medical conditions including cancer.
Some of the injectables only have a shelf life of a few hours as radioactivity decays over time. That means the new facility will ensure the NHS in South East Wales is more equipped to meet demand and get these specialist medicines to where they are needed on time.
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Jeremy Miles said: “It’s been great to see the progress to build a new radiopharmacy facility at Imperial Park.
“Radiopharmaceuticals are highly-specialised medicines essential for many procedures and treatments used by the NHS. I’m delighted the Welsh Government is providing the funding to make this happen.
“This new facility will benefit people across South East Wales and ensure the NHS has access to the specialist medicines it needs.
“Radiopharmacy is part of the plans to increase NHS Wales’ capacity to produce specialist anti-cancer therapies, intravenous nutrition and other sterile medicines. The Imperial Park site will be central to transforming the availability of these medicines in Wales.”
Neil Frow, Managing Director of NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, said: “We are pleased to host the Cabinet Secretary in Newport today to see the difference this radiopharmacy facility will make to patients across South East Wales first hand.
“Thanks to Welsh Government funding, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership can ensure we have the capacity to make and deliver vital high quality medicines to hospitals across this part of Wales, which will improve patient care and drive down waiting times.
“This facility is a key milestone and we are proud to be at the forefront of making sure pharmacy technical services across NHS Wales are fit for the future.”
Work on the development started this month and it is hoped the new facility will be up and running in spring 2026.
