Documents/TCP/1: Quality Health Care/1.2: Health Facilities

1.2: Health Facilities

Construct new health facilities to meet current and future needs.

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As part of the Capital Asset Development Plan, the ACT Government is meeting current and future needs through the construction of new health facilities. These include a women’s and children’s hospital, which will incorporate neonatal intensive care, paediatrics, maternity care and gynaecology; a neurosurgery operating theatre; a number of mental health facilities (see below); a surgical assessment and planning unit; a second cardiac catheter laboratory; and a new sleep studies laboratory. A new health centre will be constructed in Gungahlin, and at Calvary Hospital the intensive care/high dependency unit and the coronary care unit will be expanded.

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