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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this month announced a new $220 million surgical hospital will be built at the North Shore Hospital Campus.
Waitemata District Health Board chief executive Dr Dale Bramley said the project represented the biggest single capital injection into the health needs of the Waitemata district since the construction of the North Shore Hospital tower block in the early 1980s.
“This investment ensures a rapid response to the health needs of the fast-growing Waitemata population,” Dr Bramley said.
Planning and design work on the new surgical hospital is underway.
Demolition of ageing buildings on the campus, which are no longer used for clinical care, is due to begin in the new year.
The demolition programme is expected to take about 12 months. Following demolition, construction of the new hospital begins. The construction is expected to take three years.
The four-storey building will add more than 12,000 square metres of floor space to Waitemata DHB’s existing elective surgery centre and will include 120 additional beds, four operating theatres, endoscopy suites and a sky bridge connecting the surgical hospital to the main hospital tower.
