Tuesday, 5 April 2022

St Albans electorate health services

Ms SULEYMAN (St Albans) (12:56): I rise today to acknowledge the new Sunshine private hospital in the heart of St Albans. I had the pleasure of visiting and officially acknowledging the milestone building and the construction work on behalf of the Minister for Health. It was great to see the progress, and let me say just in the last 12 months we have seen the infrastructure and the building constructed. This means that the west will have choices and quality health care for local residents in the west and also in the heart of St Albans. The new private hospital will be a complement to the strong team at Western Health, which is across the road and is led by CEO Russell Harrison.

What an amazing job our healthcare professionals have been doing—not only during the pandemic but afterwards as well. I am really passionate about seeing my residents in particular having choices but also having jobs at the doorstep of St Albans. This particular infrastructure—the Sunshine private hospital and Western Health hospital—form a triangle, as I call it, where we see the appropriate health and wellbeing services together with educational facilities, such as the Victoria University St Albans campus, coming together, providing those choices and providing the best healthcare choices right there in St Albans.