Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Bayswater electorate

Mr TAYLOR (Bayswater) (14:41): (6451) Our healthcare workers are true heroes, so it was great to head out to the Angliss Hospital recently with the Minister for Health to say a massive thankyou to them and talk up the major upgrade we are delivering at this much-loved local. So my constituency question is to the Minister for Health. When will construction start on the $112 million of work to back in this great hospital?

Day in and day out our healthcare workers continue to turn up to give people the care they need when they need it. The Angliss is a great hospital that has served this part of the world for well over 80 years, but it needs a bit more work to ensure the staff and patients have the very best facilities, so I am excited that the state Labor government are significantly upgrading this loved local. I am also excited that architectural firm Silver Thomas Hanley has been appointed to design the expansion, which will see more beds, more elective surgery suites and better facilities for world-class care.

At the peak of construction the project is expected to create and sustain around 330 construction jobs, and the expansion builds on previous upgrades from 2018, which included a new ICU and a refurbishment of the adult short-stay and paediatric emergency areas. Thank you again to the team there and across the state who, during unprecedented demand on the healthcare system, continue to do incredible work each and every day. I am proud this government backs them in at every single step and always will.