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$630 MILLION - Baillieu delivers hospital cash

Nationals leader Peter Ryan, Liberal candidate for Bendigo East Michael Langdon and Opposition leader Ted Baillieu.
Posted by Admin in BENDIGO NEWS on 10 Sep 2010 at 09:03 am

By ANTHONY RADFORD

THE VICTORIAN Opposition will build a bigger, more expensive and more complex Bendigo hospital if it wins the November election.

Opposition leader Ted Baillieu announced details of the Liberal Party’s plan in Bendigo on Friday, after the plan was revealed in the Bendigo Weekly that morning.

The Opposition’s hospital plan will cost $630 million, $157 million more than the government’s plan released in May.

The Opposition’s figure is closer to the $700 million mooted by senior health figures during the campaign to build the new hospital.

The Liberal Party plan will boost the number of acute inpatient beds to 355, an increase of 152 on what exists now and 47 more than the government’s proposal.

Significantly, the Opposition’s plan also includes building an integrated cancer centre on the site of the main hospital.

The Labor Government’s plans for the new Bendigo hospital included splitting it over the existing site and a complete redevelopment of the Anne Caudle Centre site.

That left most cancer services, including oncology and radiology on the existing site, connected to the acute part of the hospital via a footbridge over busy Arnold Street.

Mr Baillieu said the funding commitment would provide for additiona...
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