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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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Ministerial Statement

ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:02): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement.

Leave granted.

The Hon. M.D. RANN: The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be Australia's most advanced hospital when it opens in 2016. It will be developed and constructed with the needs and comfort of patients at heart, purpose built to accommodate the latest medical equipment and provide the best healing environment.

Today I can inform the house that we have reached a major milestone in the construction of the new hospital. Last year the two consortia short-listed to build for the project were provided with very detailed and thorough specifications for what is required by the people of this state for the new hospital. Those specifications were developed with input from a range of experts, including doctors, nurses, allied health staff and hospital designers.

Late last week the two consortia—Torrens Health Partnership and SA Health Partnership—provided to SA Health their final proposals. Tomorrow and on Thursday the bidders will present their final designs. The proposals will then be evaluated by a team, including SA Health, Treasury, senior doctors and nurses, and other hospital staff, as well as external experts. The preferred bidder for the project will be selected later this year, with construction to begin early next year in 2011.

The presentation of the two proposals is a major step forward in the development of the hospital and a very exciting milestone in this massive project. Through the private partnership process being used to build the hospital, an intensive competitive process is underway which will mean South Australians get the best hospital built for the best price. Importantly, South Australians will get a brand new state-of-the-art hospital with much greater capacity. Let me remind all members of this house what will be included as part of the new RAH. There will be:

a larger emergency department to treat 25 per cent more patients;

120 extra beds and a majority of single rooms for the best patient care and healing and privacy;

five more theatres, all larger than the majority of the current RAH's theatres; and

40 per cent more intensive care beds.

The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will provide South Australians with the best care into the future, and I wish both consortia all the best in their efforts to build South Australia's new Royal Adelaide Hospital, which will not just be a landmark for our city but also a landmark for health care in the nation.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. M.D. RANN: I think that members opposite, having seen the number of leaders and deputy leaders that they churn through, should be looking at each other more than at me.

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