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The new Royal Children’s Hospital project
Project Summary
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| Project name | | The new Royal Children’s Hospital project |
| Value | | $946 million (Net Present Value June 2007) |
| Status | | Contract Let |
| Department or agency | | Department of Human Services, Royal Children’s Hospital |
| Private sector partner | | Children's Health Partnership consortium, comprising Babcock & Brown as sponsors, Bovis Lend Lease as builder, Spotless Group as facilities manager and architects Billard Leece, Bates Smart and HKS (US). |
| Description | | The new Royal Children’s Hospital project is the largest hospital redevelopment undertaken by the State Government of Victoria. The outcomes of the project will have a major impact on the quality of tertiary health services to be delivered to children in both metropolitan Melbourne and rural/regional Victoria.
On 21 November 2007 the Premier announced that the Children's Health Partnership would design, build, finance and maintain the hospital for a 25-year period, as well as provide a significant range of extra facilities to benefit sick children, their families and hospital staff.
The new hospital will be built immediately to the west of the existing site on Flemington Road in Parkville. The Research Precinct Building and the Front Entry Building will be retained.
The new RCH will:
- have capacity to treat an additional 35,000 patients each year;
- provide over 2000 carpark and more than 500 bicycle spaces;
- provide more accommodation and other facilities for parents;
- have more play areas, better park access and expanded childcare facilities;
- include state of the art research and education facilities and;
- include a range of shops and services for staff, patients, families, carers and visitors.
The new hospital will open in 2011. Following the relocation, much of the old site will be demolished and reinstated as parkland.
All health services will continue to be publicly operated in accordance with government policy that core services should be provided directly by the government. |
| Downloads | | Royal Children's Hospital Project Summary - February 2008 |
| Contact information | |
Royal Children's Hospital project team
Phone: 1300 1 NEW RCH (1300 1 639 724)
Email: info@newrch.vic.gov.au
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| Related information | | The new Royal Children's Hospital
Download the Contract T0607018
Download the Contract - E2918 |
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