Construction Underway 0f Northern Beaches Hospital

The long-awaited updated hospital services for the Northern Beaches is now well underway with Stage Two planning approval granted this month to commence construction of the nine-storey,  world-class hospital at Frenchs Forest.

The 6.5h site is now cleared and the shell of the hospital will be constructed first, followed by a 1400 space car park.  

There will be 488 hospital beds, including more public beds, bringing the total number of beds in the Northern Beaches Health Service to 554.  This bed increase will be supported by a large integrated emergency department, state-of-the-art intensive care and critical care units and modern inpatient mental health facility.

The Northern Beaches Hospital will provide a range of services including:

• Emergency Medicine
• Intensive Care
• Surgery
• Medicine
• Anaesthetics
• Maternity and Special Care Nursery
• Paediatrics
• Geriatric Medicine
• Inpatient Mental Health
• Renal Dialysis
• Chemotherapy
• Radiology
• Pathology
• Pharmacy
• Teaching, Training, Education and Research.

The new hospital will provide health services for both public and private patients. The Northern Sydney Local Health District will enter into a long-term partnership with the hospital operator Healthscope  to provide public patient services over the next 20 years. 

 The hospital will be fully operational by  late 2018.