IT for children's hospital still delayed
- 29 July, 2011 14:37
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The IT system for Victoria's new Royal Children's Hospital will not be operating in time for its opening in November.
State health minister, David Davis, said $23.9 million allocated for IT in the 2011/12 budget had come through too late to meet the project deadline.
The former Labor government failed to include funding for the system in its costings.
"The project is being worked through and scoped up now," Davis said on Friday.
"It will take some time to deliver (after November)."
But there is no indication when the new software will be installed, forcing the new $1 billion hospital to continue using the old computer system when it opens its doors on 30 November.
Davis made his first inspection of the new site on Friday, saying the investment, funded through a public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement, was worth the money.
"I think we've got good value for money," he told reporters.
"PPP projects are options into the future but to be assessed project by project."
Royal Children's Hospital executive director, Christine Kilpatrick, said the facilities, which will treat an additional 35,000 children every year, were world-class.
"I've not seen anything of this standard," Kilpatrick said.
"The eye for detail is astonishing, for both patients and their families."
A second stage of the hospital project to begin early next year, will include accommodation for extended families to stay within close distance of a sick child.
The new wards are divided from the out-patients ward, using an Australian flora and fauna theme for each level of the hospital.
The new site will be home to Australia's largest child health research institute, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne paediatrics department.
The majority of buildings on the old Flemington Road site have been demolished and will be turned into parkland.
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