Parliamentary Committees

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE: LYELL McEWIN HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT—STAGE C

Mrs VLAHOS (Taylor) (11:03): I move:

That the 393^rd report of the committee, entitled Lyell McEwin Hospital Redevelopment—Stage C, be noted.

The Lyell McEwin Hospital was established in Elizabeth Vale in 1958 and provides some very important community services to the people of the northern suburbs, where I am the member. It provides a comprehensive range of specialist and diagnostic treatment services for the population, based around 196,000 people living primarily in the northern suburbs of Adelaide within the Playford and Salisbury council areas, and has a wider catchment area, including the township of Gawler.

Due to the limitations imposed by the existing building stock, we have moved to increase the hospital's capacity in a number of ways since the year 2000. The proposed works include:

construction of a new 96-bed acute inpatient facility building to support expansion of clinical services, including a helipad on the upper level;

construction of the new ambulatory care building to accommodate expanded outpatient and allied health functions;

construction of a new support service building to accommodate expanded women's health facilities and maternal assessment unit, administration, research, education, clinical offices and relocated expanded back of house services space; and

a range of internal refigurations, relocations, refurbishments and upgrade works to suit existing and expanded functional requirements.

The total capital budgeted for the project, including a multi-deck car park (already constructed), is $201.65 million (GST exclusive). The works considered in this report, not including the car park, total $182.42 million.

The principal purpose of the Lyell McEwin Hospital Redevelopment Stage C is to provide the hospital with physical infrastructure and capacity to support the changed role of the hospital, where it will become one of the three adult tertiary hospitals in South Australia. The committee is told that the project will go through seven phases during the new construction refurbishment work, which will be rolled out, with the final project completion in June 2015. I give the above and pursuant to section 12C of the Parliamentary Committees Act 1991, the Public Works Committee reports to parliament that it recommends the proposed public work.

Motion carried.