Taranaki to benefit from hospital revamp
30 July 2008
Taranaki to benefit from $80 million hospital revamp
Minister of Health David Cunliffe today signed off on an $80 million revamp of Taranaki Base Hospital that will include two new surgical theatres and increase the number of hospital beds.
Stage one of the proposal will see a new combined theatre, ambulatory service and inpatient ward block, that will be funded from $43 million of government equity and the remainder from Taranaki DHB.
“This is an exciting new project that will benefit the people of the Taranaki region for many years to come,” Mr Cunliffe said.
Associate Minister of Health Mita Ririnui holds the delegation to the Taranaki District Health Board and is also delighted with the news that the proposed development for the Taranaki Base Hospital will go ahead.
“As with other DHB’s throughout the country, the Taranaki DHB boundary covers a large geographical area and a large proportion of that is rural. It is important to ensure that the Taranaki Base Hospital is well equipped and prepared to deliver all the necessary services required by the people living in their area to prevent transferring patients to larger cities such as Auckland, Waikato and Wellington wherever possible” said Minister Ririnui.
Mr Cunliffe said the decision to approve the redevelopment of Taranaki Base Hospital was part of the largest hospital building and redevelopment campaign that New Zealand could remember with over $1.5 billion committed so far.
“New
Zealanders from Kaitaia to the deep south have benefited
from this government’s massive investment in hospital
infrastructure.”
Seven new hospitals have been built
since 2000. Eight hospital campuses have had major
refurbishments or been significantly redeveloped since 2000.
In addition, ten specialist facilities have been built,
three redevelopment projects are almost complete and a
further four major capital projects for hospital
redevelopments have been approved and are underway.
"The
capital program of the last nine years has been very
comprehensive. It has kept pace with demographic pressure
in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty, substantially rebuilt New
Zealand’s provincial hospitals and provided a network of
modern mental health facilities around the country, Mr
Cunliffe said
New buildings
1. Seven hospitals have been built since the year 2000, as follows:
- Auckland
Hospital, Auckland DHB - $447M, major rebuild of base
hospital Opened in late 2003
- Southland Hospital,
Invercargill – $69.7M, new base hospital, opened in late
2004
- Wairarapa Hospital, Masterton – $29.5M, new
base hospital, completed in March 2006
- Christchurch
Women’s Hospital - $80M, new hospital on new site, opened
in March 2005
- Hawera, South Taranaki - $6.0M, opened
in March 2002. A 26 bed hospital with 21 inpatient beds,
four maternity beds, a fully equipped birthing room, 24-hour
emergency department (ED) and after hours general
practitioner (GP) care, outpatient and community services
- Dunstan, Central Otago - $7.6M, opened in June 2005.
Essentially a new hospital made possible by Crown funding.
Owned by the Otago DHB but operated by a community trust.
Services include emergency, inpatient medical beds,
maternity and community services, visiting specialists
-
Horowhenua Health Centre and hospital - $16.1M, opened in
June 2007. Provides hospital and primary health care
services, including GPs, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology
care.
Hospitals refurbished
2. Eight hospital
campuses have had major refurbishments or have been
significantly redeveloped, since the year 2000, as
follows:
- Burwood Hospital redevelopment, Canterbury DHB
- $21.5M. Key components included operating suite of four
theatres, recovery area including an eight bed post
anaesthetic care unit, post-operative orthopaedic ward
facility and enhancement of orthopaedic outpatients
-
Kenepuru Hospital redevelopment, Capital and Coast DHB (part
of larger regional hospital redevelopment project, see
paragraph 8 below). The redevelopment included a paediatric
assessment unit, child development unit; extension of the
radiology facility, Allied Health facilities for outpatients
and specialist rehabilitation, expanded outpatient services
and new facilities for the psychogeriatric service
-
Kaitaia Hospital, Northland DHB - $11.9M. Included new GP
centre, day surgery, renovated maternity unit, renovated and
upgraded general ward, new accident and medical centre and a
new after-hours facility
- Waitakere and North Shore
Hospitals, Waitemata DHB - $125M. Major development and
redevelopment of both campuses, focusing on acute personal
health care facilities
- Nelson Hospital,
Nelson-Marlborough DHB, $35M (approved prior to 1999)
-
Palmerston North Hospital, MidCentral DHB, $55M campus
upgrade (approved prior to 1999)
- Counties Manukau
facilities modernisation programme, this included the new
Kidz First children’s hospital and major improvements to
ED, Counties Manukau DHB, $160M.
Redevelopment
projects
3. Three redevelopment projects are almost
complete. These are:
- Whanganui Hospital, Whanganui DHB
- $33.8M. Focused on redeveloping hospital to integrate and
consolidate services, enable the DHB to deliver new, modern
models of care, and to meet current seismic code
requirements
- Core consolidation projects, Counties
Manukau DHB - $64.9M and $39.8M. Involves a significant
upgrade of the previous poor hospital facilities.
The redevelopment of Tauranga hospital (Bay of Plenty DHB)
has been substantially completed ($139.3M).
4. A
further five major capital projects for hospital
redevelopments have been approved and are currently
underway. One project is awaiting final approval.
Capital and Coast Regional Hospital, Capital and Coast DHB -
$346M (includes Kenepuru hospital redevelopment now
competed)
Hutt Hospital, Hutt Valley DHB - $81.9M.
Includes new theatres, emergency department, parking,
utilities and infrastructure development (most recent
redevelopment).
Wairau Hospital, Nelson-Marlborough
DHB - $36.7M. This consolidates the hospital into a compact,
flexible health operation that meets seismic and other code
compliance requirements and enables delivery of modern
models of care. Includes new ED, ambulatory care and medical
imaging facilities.
Lakes Health Services
Improvement Project, Lakes DHB – major redevelopment of
Rotorua Hospital and Taupo Hospital, $51.3M
Waikato
and Thames Hospitals, Waikato DHB, $214.9M.
New
specialist facilities
5. Ten specialist units have been
built or redeveloped using Crown equity or new lending since
the year 2000, including:
dementia unit, West Coast
DHB - $3.8M
breast screening unit, Waitemata DHB -
$3.3M
breast screening unit, Waikato DHB - $0.7M
high containment laboratory for drug resistant
organisms, pandemic or bioterrorism samples, Canterbury DHB
- $0.9M
burns unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU), Counties Manukau DHB - $42.0M
Intellectual
Disability Secure Services Unit, Capital and Coast DHB -
$6.5M
Regional Intellectual Disability Secure
Services Unit, Waitemata DHB - $8.6M
Forensic Mental
Health Unit, Waitemata DHB - $6.3M
Te Atarau medium
secure Mental Health unit, Waitemata DHB - $14.8M