A Health Infrastructure (HI) team is hitting the road in a bid to get regional input on how to spend some of the $150 million committed by the NSW government to Dubbo Hospital’s stage three and four redevelopment.
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It will run workshops in Nyngan, Bourke, Walgett and Coonamble across three days, starting February 6. About half of Dubbo Hospital patients come from rural and remote communities.
The workshops will focus on the “look and feel” of some public areas earmarked for redevelopment, including the hospital’s front of house/main entrance and foyer, outdoor courtyard spaces, quiet rooms and public waiting areas. They will feature schematic design plans and artist impressions unveiled in Dubbo by NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant in November.
Stage three and four redevelopment is scheduled to begin in “coming weeks” with the construction of another floor on the hospital’s new clinical services people, built under the $91.3 million stage one and two redevelopment. Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd has won the tender to build the extra floor
Later, a three-storey building will be constructed in the south-eastern corner of the hospital campus to accommodate a new emergency department, medical imaging unit, critical care floor and renal dialysis unit. Planning is underway to include an integrated cancer centre in stages three and four redevelopment.HI will offer “further community consultation opportunities” in Dubbo in the future.
