❓ Mrs. Munday asks about the Peel Health Campus redevelopment. The Minister details the significant investment, expanded facilities, and contrasts the government's approach with the previous Liberal government's cuts and privatisation, highlighting support from a federal Liberal MP.
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Peel Health Campus redevelopment
590. Mrs Lisa Munday to
the Minister for Health Infrastructure:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's commitment to ensuring that all Western Australians can
access the health care that they need, when they need it. Can the minister
please update the house on how the significant investment in Peel Health Campus
will improve health care for residents in my and the member for Mandurah's
community?
590. Mrs Lisa Munday to
the Minister for Health Infrastructure:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's commitment to ensuring that all Western Australians can
access the health care that they need, when they need it. Can the minister
please update the house on how the significant investment in Peel Health Campus
will improve health care for residents in my and the member for Mandurah's
community?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member
for her strong and articulate advocacy in relation to the health needs of her
local community. As we know, last week, our government made a historic
announcement of a hospital building fund worth $1.5 billion. To put that into
perspective, that is a record for our state in terms of the overall capital
works program—$4.7 billion to transform hospitals across Western
Australia.
As we know, in this
term of government, the Premier created not only the health infrastructure
portfolio, but also a new central agency—the Office of Major
Infrastructure Delivery. I tasked that unit to re-look at our critical projects,
and advice was provided to us. That advice has informed these decisions,
including the critical decision to build a completely new hospital at Peel
Health Campus. It will be six storeys and will include an expanded emergency
department; additional operating theatres and day procedure facilities;
additional chemotherapy places and a dedicated cancer treatment area; a new
medical imaging department; expanded outpatient services; fully upgraded
clinical support services; expanded pharmacy, pathology, admin and
back-of-house facilities and contemporary ICT and digital systems. By making
this decision based on that advice, we know that it will be a cleaner build,
and it will also ensure that we do not disrupt the current operations of the
24/7 live environment of a hospital. Construction will commence next year, with
completion in 2029.
It is great to see
that we got a lot of positive feedback, and I know that the local members have
been inundated, because this is a stark difference from the other side of
politics. As we know, the former Liberal government cut and privatised. We are
able to make this decision only because we brought Peel Health Campus back into
public hands.
Although we know
that the current Leader of the Liberal Party and the health spokesperson will
cut and privatise, it was really brilliant to see that someone else came out
and congratulated us on building Peel Health Campus. It is the Leader of the
Liberal Party's best friend, Andrew Hastie, who actually went out of his way to
send a direct email attacking the Liberal leader with a picture of the Liberal
leader that we use in the Labor Party. It was the most unflattering picture of
the Liberal leader. Andrew Hastie used it! I mean, it is extraordinary—his
best mate! Andrew Hastie said:
This announcement
is a win for the Peel community …
Let us be very
clear. It is very sure that that side of politics is increasingly becoming
isolated. Their own federal colleagues hate them. They do not like them at all,
and why is that? It is because we know that when they get in government, they
cut and privatise health care, just like they did with Peel Health Campus.
for her strong and articulate advocacy in relation to the health needs of her
local community. As we know, last week, our government made a historic
announcement of a hospital building fund worth $1.5 billion. To put that into
perspective, that is a record for our state in terms of the overall capital
works program—$4.7 billion to transform hospitals across Western
Australia.
As we know, in this
term of government, the Premier created not only the health infrastructure
portfolio, but also a new central agency—the Office of Major
Infrastructure Delivery. I tasked that unit to re-look at our critical projects,
and advice was provided to us. That advice has informed these decisions,
including the critical decision to build a completely new hospital at Peel
Health Campus. It will be six storeys and will include an expanded emergency
department; additional operating theatres and day procedure facilities;
additional chemotherapy places and a dedicated cancer treatment area; a new
medical imaging department; expanded outpatient services; fully upgraded
clinical support services; expanded pharmacy, pathology, admin and
back-of-house facilities and contemporary ICT and digital systems. By making
this decision based on that advice, we know that it will be a cleaner build,
and it will also ensure that we do not disrupt the current operations of the
24/7 live environment of a hospital. Construction will commence next year, with
completion in 2029.
It is great to see
that we got a lot of positive feedback, and I know that the local members have
been inundated, because this is a stark difference from the other side of
politics. As we know, the former Liberal government cut and privatised. We are
able to make this decision only because we brought Peel Health Campus back into
public hands.
Although we know
that the current Leader of the Liberal Party and the health spokesperson will
cut and privatise, it was really brilliant to see that someone else came out
and congratulated us on building Peel Health Campus. It is the Leader of the
Liberal Party's best friend, Andrew Hastie, who actually went out of his way to
send a direct email attacking the Liberal leader with a picture of the Liberal
leader that we use in the Labor Party. It was the most unflattering picture of
the Liberal leader. Andrew Hastie used it! I mean, it is extraordinary—his
best mate! Andrew Hastie said:
This announcement
is a win for the Peel community …
Let us be very
clear. It is very sure that that side of politics is increasingly becoming
isolated. Their own federal colleagues hate them. They do not like them at all,
and why is that? It is because we know that when they get in government, they
cut and privatise health care, just like they did with Peel Health Campus.
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