Vic hospital to get $29 million upgrade

MELBOURNE'S Northern Hospital will receive a $29 million state government upgrade to serve a population that will double by 2030.

The new three-storey wing with 32 in-patient beds at the Epping site is expected to be completed by 2016, Premier Denis Napthine says.

The money for the project will be allocated in the May state budget.

"More beds, more services to a growing population," Dr Napthine told reporters on Wednesday.

"I will expect this will meet the needs for the next five to 10 years."

The population of Melbourne's northern fringe has grown steadily over the past decade and is tipped to swell by a further 55 per cent between now and 2026.

Work on the state-of-the-art facility will begin late next year.

"We are acting now to make sure that people and families in Melbourne's north continue to have access to top quality health services in the long term," Dr Napthine said.

The new funding is in addition to a $24.5 million redevelopment of the hospital's emergency department and special care surgery, which the government announced in 2011.

Health Minister David Davis said that with Wednesday's announcement, the government had now delivered more than 180 Victorian hospital beds.

Dr Napthine said the Northern Hospital expansion added to $4 billion in hospital works the government already had under way.

He said the government would make a further announcement on Sunday for extra mental health beds in Werribee in Melbourne's southwest.

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