❓ The Minister for Health provides an update on key health infrastructure projects across WA, including the Geraldton Health Campus redevelopment, Joondalup Health Campus stage 2, and Bunbury Hospital redevelopment, highlighting the government's investment and commitment to improving healthcare services.
AnsweredQoN 805Legislative Assembly
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HEALTH
— INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
805. Ms L. DALTON to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's record investment in Western Australia's public
health system. Can the minister update the house on the delivery of key
infrastructure projects across the health system and outline how they will
continue to maintain WA's world-class health service?
— INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
805. Ms L. DALTON to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's record investment in Western Australia's public
health system. Can the minister update the house on the delivery of key
infrastructure projects across the health system and outline how they will
continue to maintain WA's world-class health service?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the honourable member for
her question and I am very pleased that we are able today to announce that
expressions of interest for the redevelopment of Geraldton Health Campus are
now open.
WA Health has, if not the biggest
and most extensive infrastructure portfolio of government, certainly one of the most extensive, and we care for 2.6 million
residents over 800 sites in the state. Some of those sites are very small and
others are very large. They range from community clinics through to the large
tertiary hospitals. It is an extensive infrastructure portfolio. This
government is committed to ensuring the best possible quality health care and
infrastructure for all of Western Australia. We have committed $1.6 billion to
health infrastructure alone over the coming four years, with 119 projects that
will use or have utilised that funding.
Today, we have reached another
milestone in the infrastructure program with our announcement that expressions of interest for the next stage of the Geraldton
Health Campus development have now been released on Tenders WA . That is a $122.7 million redevelopment that will
deliver more beds, more treatment spaces, an expanded emergency department, a short-stay unit, and an integrated mental health service, which
is incredible for the region, including an inpatient unit that will be
co-located with community treatment and expanded critical care services. I know
this has been a passion project for the member for Geraldton and I thank her
for her consistent advocacy for this project. It will make a big difference to
the whole of the midwest. It includes 400 additional car bays that were put in
place in the first stage of enabling works and the reconfiguration of the main
entrance to the emergency department. We know
that the midwest currently does not have any inpatient mental health
facilities, so this will be a really significant development that will
be co-located with those community-based services. It is the single biggest
redevelopment of and investment in Geraldton Health Campus since it was first
developed by the Gallop government in the 2000s. We are very proud of this
government to be supporting that development.
Our
other significant infrastructure developments include Joondalup Health Campus
stage 2, with a budget allocation of $256 million, which will see the
construction of over 100 mental health unit beds, 112 public beds, a cardiac
catheterisation lab and central plant upgrade. This achieved contract execution
in January 2021 and has already successfully completed the expansion of the
emergency department up there in the northern suburbs.
The
Bunbury Hospital redevelopment is another project and is close to the member
for Bunbury's heart, with a budget allocation of $200 million aiming to address projected demand increases
across the entire south west. It will include maternity, birthing and
neonates, as well as important mental health services. Early works, which also
included the new car park, include offsite accommodation for ambulatory care
and hospital in the home, and procurement of necessary ICU equipment.
We have also seen a large number of
projects completed recently, including the Osborne Park Hospital expansion; the Royal Perth Hospital mental health observation
area; the RPH helipad; the Carnarvon aged and palliative care facility;
upgrades to the Dongara aged-care facility; and the 430-bed modular wards at
the Osborne Park, Rockingham, Bentley and Bunbury hospital sites. That
construction was fast-tracked to ensure that all four wards were operational
within 12 months of project conception, which is an incredible time frame.
Congratulations to everyone involved. We have also put significant funding of
$1.8 billion towards the women's and newborns' hospital, and
concept design is underway.
There is no doubt that COVID-19 has
impacted on the construction industry, but this government is absolutely
committed to doing everything we can to continue to deliver important health
upgrades across our state.
her question and I am very pleased that we are able today to announce that
expressions of interest for the redevelopment of Geraldton Health Campus are
now open.
WA Health has, if not the biggest
and most extensive infrastructure portfolio of government, certainly one of the most extensive, and we care for 2.6 million
residents over 800 sites in the state. Some of those sites are very small and
others are very large. They range from community clinics through to the large
tertiary hospitals. It is an extensive infrastructure portfolio. This
government is committed to ensuring the best possible quality health care and
infrastructure for all of Western Australia. We have committed $1.6 billion to
health infrastructure alone over the coming four years, with 119 projects that
will use or have utilised that funding.
Today, we have reached another
milestone in the infrastructure program with our announcement that expressions of interest for the next stage of the Geraldton
Health Campus development have now been released on Tenders WA . That is a $122.7 million redevelopment that will
deliver more beds, more treatment spaces, an expanded emergency department, a short-stay unit, and an integrated mental health service, which
is incredible for the region, including an inpatient unit that will be
co-located with community treatment and expanded critical care services. I know
this has been a passion project for the member for Geraldton and I thank her
for her consistent advocacy for this project. It will make a big difference to
the whole of the midwest. It includes 400 additional car bays that were put in
place in the first stage of enabling works and the reconfiguration of the main
entrance to the emergency department. We know
that the midwest currently does not have any inpatient mental health
facilities, so this will be a really significant development that will
be co-located with those community-based services. It is the single biggest
redevelopment of and investment in Geraldton Health Campus since it was first
developed by the Gallop government in the 2000s. We are very proud of this
government to be supporting that development.
Our
other significant infrastructure developments include Joondalup Health Campus
stage 2, with a budget allocation of $256 million, which will see the
construction of over 100 mental health unit beds, 112 public beds, a cardiac
catheterisation lab and central plant upgrade. This achieved contract execution
in January 2021 and has already successfully completed the expansion of the
emergency department up there in the northern suburbs.
The
Bunbury Hospital redevelopment is another project and is close to the member
for Bunbury's heart, with a budget allocation of $200 million aiming to address projected demand increases
across the entire south west. It will include maternity, birthing and
neonates, as well as important mental health services. Early works, which also
included the new car park, include offsite accommodation for ambulatory care
and hospital in the home, and procurement of necessary ICU equipment.
We have also seen a large number of
projects completed recently, including the Osborne Park Hospital expansion; the Royal Perth Hospital mental health observation
area; the RPH helipad; the Carnarvon aged and palliative care facility;
upgrades to the Dongara aged-care facility; and the 430-bed modular wards at
the Osborne Park, Rockingham, Bentley and Bunbury hospital sites. That
construction was fast-tracked to ensure that all four wards were operational
within 12 months of project conception, which is an incredible time frame.
Congratulations to everyone involved. We have also put significant funding of
$1.8 billion towards the women's and newborns' hospital, and
concept design is underway.
There is no doubt that COVID-19 has
impacted on the construction industry, but this government is absolutely
committed to doing everything we can to continue to deliver important health
upgrades across our state.
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