The Brumby Government is taking action now to meet the challenges of the future and make Victoria the best place to live, work and raise a family.

And we're taking action to ensure families have the best health system.

We have reinvested in health services employing over 8000 extra nurses increasing funding by 96%.

Click on your part of the State to see what is happening in your local area, or read on for a snapshot of Victoria.

• Melbourne Metro: Information about Metropolitan Melbourne.
• Hume: There are new high-tech medical equipment and redeveloped hospitals. 
• Loddon: Investing $4.1 billion across Victoria to build, upgrade or refurbish 58 public hospitals and health services.
• Grampians: Country Hospitals are being redeveloped including those in Ararat, Stawell and Nhill.
• Barwon South West: The Government is funding the Geelong Hospital Accident and Emergency Department.
• Gippsland: There are 8000 extra Nurses employed across Victoria benefiting hospitals like West Gippsland Hospital.

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Since 1999 we have embarked on the largest health capital works program in Victoria’s history by investing $4.1 billion to build, upgrade or refurbish 58 public hospitals and health services.

Building our health system

• Building a brand new Royal Children’s Hospital at Parkville
• Saving the Austin Hospital from privatisation –  the $376 million rebuilding and completion of the Austin and the Mercy Hospital in Heidelberg makes it the largest health precinct in Victoria
• Building the new $250 million Royal Women’s Hospital
• New $80 million Casey Hospital at Berwick
• New $52 million Royal Dental Hospital
• $34 million redevelopment and expansion of Dandenong Hospital
• New regional hospital and aged care facilities are being built at Rochester and Elmore District Health Service, Rural Northwest Health in Warracknabeal, Stawell Health and Community Centre, Nathalia District Hospital, Warrnambool Hospital, Leongatha Hospital and Ballarat Hospital

Well funded hospitals with more staff treating more patients

• Victoria’s emergency departments are the number one in the nation, according to Federal Government reports. Victoria’s hospitals admitted over 1.3 million patients in 2005/06, 270,000 more since 1999/00
• Hospital Emergency Departments treated over 1.2 million patients, almost 400,000 more than in 1999/00
• 1,800 extra doctors are working in our hospitals now than in 1999
• Funding to ambulance services increased by over $140 million since 1999
• More than 713 extra paramedics, more than 100 extra ambulances on the roads and 68 new or upgraded ambulance stations