The NSW government will pour an additional $840 million into hospital upgrades in its upcoming budget as rising building costs hit the state’s bottom line.
Hospital construction projects will cost NSW taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars more than initially allocated as rising building costs hit the state budget’s bottom line.
An artist’s impression of the $527 million redevelopment of Ryde Hospital, one of the hospital projects to receive additional funding in the upcoming state budget.NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said additional funds would go towards delivering the infrastructure already promised to Ryde and surrounding communities, including a new emergency department, inpatient ward and “cutting-edge imaging and diagnostic services”.
The two largest infrastructure outlays in the health budget are a $265 million upgrade of Port Macquarie Hospital, which will include expanded emergency and maternity services for the state’s Mid North Coast, and $250 million towards addressing a maintenance backlog of critical medical equipment, facilities and IT infrastructure across the state’s health system.
The extra spending on health infrastructure is an added headache for a government that has also committed toand given paramedics a 25 per cent pay rise. That is without considering the 15 per cent pay rise demanded by the 50,000 nurses who comprise NSW Health’s largest workforce.
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