Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Joondalup Health Campus in my electorate is the largest healthcare facility in the northern suburbs of Perth, a region that will be growing at a rate of 10,000 new residents each and every year for the next 20 years. It comprises a public hospital, operated in public-private partnership with the WA state government until 2043, and a private hospital.

A construction program of nearly $500 million is currently in progress to deliver additional beds and operating theatres and to expand services across public and private facilities. This includes $269.4 million in government funding for the public component and $190 million of private sector investment by Ramsay Health Care for the private hospital.

With the necessary federal funding, Joondalup has the potential to emerge as a strategic accessible centre for health and medical services that meets the northern suburbs' specialist and high-acuity medical needs, as well as general and emergency care and allied health services, eliminating the need for residents to commute long distances into Perth's CBD for essential medical treatment.

Ramsay Health Care seeks to build on the services it currently provides, with a significant focus on cardiology procedures, orthopaedics, general surgery, endoscopy and ophthalmology, while expanding ear, nose and throat, urology and vascular surgery. Ramsey also seeks to expand cancer care and associated surgeries at Joondalup Health Campus, including breast and colorectal surgery.

I call on the federal government and health minister to commit to critical investment and support the development of a specialist and medical hub within Joondalup City Centre, with targeted speciality inpatient and outpatient clinical funding and increased high-acuity specialist services based at Joondalup Health Campus.

The development of a Joondalup health and medical hub will improve the wellbeing of our growing community, bringing together preventive health care, primary health care, allied health care and hospital-level care, integrating those with teaching and research institutions at a location which is accessible to a population of more than 500,000 residents who live within a 20-minute drive of the Joondalup City Centre.