Health Infrastructure is redeveloping the John Hunter Health Campus to deliver enhanced facilities and provide additional capacity to meet the demands of the Greater Newcastle, Hunter New England and northern NSW regions.
OVERVIEW
John Hunter is one of the most utilised healthcare campuses in NSW. It has one of the busiest Emergency Departments, trauma centres and public hospital neurosurgery units in the state.
The redevelopment of the John Hunter and John Hunter Children’s Hospitals will deliver a significant expansion providing additional capacity and purpose-built infrastructure, to enable the implementation of contemporary models of care. The project includes an interim expansion of the existing Emergency Department to relieve current pressure.
The NSW Government is investing $835 million to redevelop the John Hunter and John Hunter Children’s Hospitals.
BENEFITS
The project will:
- Deliver enhanced and expanded facilities with a new seven-storey acute services building
- Deliver a new Emergency Department to meet a projected future demand of over 95,000 presentations per annum
- Double the capacity of the Intensive Care Unit and provide capacity for future expansion
- Provide 22 operating theatres and nine (9) interventional suites to respond to significantly increasing demand
- Deliver five procedure rooms for endoscopy and minor procedures
- Provide purpose-built flexible education space co-located within clinical services.
SCOPE
The project includes:
- A new acute services building
- Expanded and enhanced Emergency Department, intensive care services (adult, paediatric and neonatal) and operating theatres including interventional suites
- Women’s services including birthing unit, day assessment unit and inpatient units
- Expanded and enhanced medical assessment and coordination unit providing early intervention of acute medical patients within the Emergency Department
- Expanded and enhanced cardiac close observation unit
- Integrated flexible education and teaching spaces
- Retail spaces
- Two adult inpatient units
- Nexus Child & Adolescent Mental Health Unit (funded by SWMHIP)
- Link bridge to connect the new acute services building to Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).
For more information, visit the project website.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
A28a(i): Approved Plans
A28a(ii): Current Statutory Approvals
A28a(iii): Approved Strategies, Plans and Programs
A28a(iv): Environmental Performance
- No reporting currently completed. To be undertaken periodically during construction and issued at that time.
A28a(v): Summary of Monitoring Results
A28a(vi): Summary of the Current Stage and Progress of the Development
A28a(vii): Contact Details to enquire about the project
A28a(viii)
A28a(ix): Audit Report and Applicants Response
A28a(x): Other matters required by the Planning Secretary
- Nil identified by the Planning Secretary