Women's and Children's Hospital

In reply to the Hon. S.L. GAME ().10 April 2024).

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State): The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:

The government has allocated $3.2 billion to building our new hospital on the SAPOL barracks site, near the Royal Adelaide Hospital, to ensure we provide space for both hospitals to expand in the future. The new hospital will provide many key clinical benefits and will be 25 per cent bigger and have 56 more overnight beds than the current Women's and Children's Hospital. The facility will have a future capacity to provide a further 20 beds.

As a key training facility for women's and children's services and specialities the Women's and Children's Hospital has a strong research history and has recently released a research strategy. It focuses on improving health outcomes by building research capacity, enhancing research culture, strengthening collaborations to deliver evidence-based care, and ensuring translation of research into clinical outcomes. Provision of onsite research facilities assists with the realisation and continuation of this vision through embedding research into health service, practice and policy the Women's and Children's Hospital will continue to improve the health of pregnant women and children.