❓ The WA government announces a significant $3.6 billion investment in the health system over the next decade, including new hospitals, upgrades to existing facilities, and expansion of services across both metropolitan and regional areas.
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With the state government posting a $1.2 billion surplus and a record low level of debt, can the minister inform the house about the investment the Gallop government will make in our health system? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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Today is truly a red-letter day for the public health system in Western Australia. Western Australia has a booming V8 economy that has enabled the government to allocate an additional $890 million to the health system. That will provide an additional 800 beds in the next 10 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver to the people of Western Australia the world’s best health system. Over the next decade the government will be investing a total of $3.6 billion in rebuilding the health system in this state. Listen to members opposite squeal at such good news for the people of Western Australia! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Today is truly a red-letter day for the public health system in Western Australia. Western Australia has a booming V8 economy that has enabled the government to allocate an additional $890 million to the health system. That will provide an additional 800 beds in the next 10 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver to the people of Western Australia the world’s best health system. Over the next decade the government will be investing a total of $3.6 billion in rebuilding the health system in this state. Listen to members opposite squeal at such good news for the people of Western Australia! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Today is truly a red-letter day for the public health system in Western Australia. Western Australia has a booming V8 economy that has enabled the government to allocate an additional $890 million to the health system. That will provide an additional 800 beds in the next 10 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver to the people of Western Australia the world’s best health system. Over the next decade the government will be investing a total of $3.6 billion in rebuilding the health system in this state. Listen to members opposite squeal at such good news for the people of Western Australia! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
[See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Today is truly a red-letter day for the public health system in Western Australia. Western Australia has a booming V8 economy that has enabled the government to allocate an additional $890 million to the health system. That will provide an additional 800 beds in the next 10 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver to the people of Western Australia the world’s best health system. Over the next decade the government will be investing a total of $3.6 billion in rebuilding the health system in this state. Listen to members opposite squeal at such good news for the people of Western Australia! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Today is truly a red-letter day for the public health system in Western Australia. Western Australia has a booming V8 economy that has enabled the government to allocate an additional $890 million to the health system. That will provide an additional 800 beds in the next 10 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver to the people of Western Australia the world’s best health system. Over the next decade the government will be investing a total of $3.6 billion in rebuilding the health system in this state. Listen to members opposite squeal at such good news for the people of Western Australia! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Murray and Nedlands. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Today the government released its “WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2005-2015”. I will table a copy of that document, which details the role and bed capacity of metropolitan hospitals in Western Australia. [See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
[See paper 810.] Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : This bold vision will bring health care closer to where people live. It will also result in enormous changes in the delivery of health care in Western Australia. A primary change will be the relocation of the tired and worn-out facility at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to the north block at Royal Perth Hospital, which is some 15 years old. An allocation of $222 million has been made to totally redevelop the north block of Royal Perth Hospital, which will provide for a new paediatric emergency department, an intensive care unit, new operating theatres and a neonatal nursery. The funding also includes $30 million to assist in the transfer of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research from Subiaco to the Royal Perth Hospital site. In the Perth’s north eastern suburbs - the Swan District - $183 million has been allocated for a new hospital to service the eastern and Midland regions. It will become a 326-bed general hospital by 2010-11 and will include all the associated facilities. An additional $322 million has been allocated to the Fiona Stanley hospital, which will become the flagship of the public hospital system in Western Australia. Located at that hospital will be the state trauma unit, Dr Fiona Woods’ burns unit, heart and lung transplant surgery and medical research facilities. The facility will open as a 600-bed facility in 2011 and will be upgraded to a 1 000-bed facility in 2015-16. In addition, $100 million will be injected into the Joondalup Health Campus, which will increase bed numbers from 235 to 495 by 2011 and result in a significant expansion of acute inpatient facilities, new day procedure services, a new emergency department and the doubling of the number of operating theatres. By 2015, Joondalup Health Campus will become a 600-bed tertiary hospital with teaching and research facilities. More than half a billion dollars has been set aside to incorporate the State Cancer Centre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital by 2010 and to expand the range of acute inpatients at that hospital. This is not only a metropolitan-based plan; an additional $58.8 million has been allocated to country hospitals to build new hospitals and refurbish the six regional resource centres in the six major regional centres of Western Australia; namely, Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury. This massive investment in our hospitals will give Western Australians the finest health care system in the nation, if not the world, and will deliver health care closer to where people live.
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