More hospital beds as Children’s Hospital Westmead expands

14 January 2026
Construction of the centrepiece of the $659.1 million Children’s Hospital Westmead Stage 2 Redevelopment is now complete, delivering new treatment spaces and beds to the Western Sydney hospital. 

The redevelopment includes a new 14-storey hospital building featuring a major expansion of intensive care facilities, including dedicated paediatric and neonatal intensive care units spanning two floors. These units are equipped with state-of-the-art medical pendants and automated dispensing cabinets, enhancing efficient delivery of critical care to our young patients.

The redevelopment was designed in consultation with staff, patients and families to create a home-like and welcoming environment. All inpatient units have single-patient bedrooms, furnished with a carer bed and private ensuite to support family togetherness. Design elements such as natural light, calming interiors, and patient entertainment devices will improve comfort and the ability for families to stay connected.

The new hospital building provides new and expanded critical care and acute healthcare services, including:  
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit  
  • Cancer services including a new day oncology treatment centre and inpatient units 
  • New perioperative unit with operating theatres, cardiac catheterisation labs and interventional laboratory    
  • New facilities for a state-wide service for burns, offering inpatient and outpatient facilities   
  • Pharmacy and oncology pharmacy, equipped with a robot to streamline the delivery of medication
  • New Surgical Short Stay Unit  

Final preparations are underway to ensure staff are ready to welcome patients and their families in the coming months.

The investment of $659.1 million into the redevelopment includes an extra $40.1 million boost under the Minns Labor Government in 2025/26, in partnership with the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. This will enable the fit-out of two inpatient units on Level 13 of the new building, which will provide dedicated care for children living with chronic and complex medical conditions.

The Minns Labor Government is investing in more staff, more hospitals and more beds in Western Sydney, including: 
  • A new Rouse Hill Hospital; 
  • A new Bankstown Hospital; and 
  • More beds for Blacktown and Mount Druitt hospitals. 

We are working to reverse the health failures of the NSW Liberals who: 
  • Promised to build Rouse Hill Hospital at three elections, and failed; 
  • Failed to select a site for a new Bankstown Hospital; 
  • Failed to build enough beds for Blacktown and Mount Druitt hospitals; and 
  • Planned to privatise six acute public hospitals across NSW.  

Quotes attributable to Minister for Health Ryan Park:

“I am so pleased and grateful to mark the completion of construction of another hospital to meet the growing health needs of our community. 

“We are delivering more hospitals, more beds and more services to ensure patients and their families receive the care they need, when they need it.

“After the Liberals’ failure to deliver Rouse Hill Hospital, the Minns Labor Government is pleased to announce the delivery of stage 2 of Children’s Hospital, Westmead. 

“And thanks to the passage of Joe’s Law, Children’s Hospital Westmead will be protected from future Liberal privatization.”

Quotes attributable to the Member for Parramatta, Donna Davis:

“We’re incredibly proud to have a hospital of the calibre of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, which has been a place of comfort and healing for thousands of families across Sydney and regional NSW. 

“The redevelopment will provide new and expanded critical and acute healthcare services right here in Western Sydney, in a facility that matches the skill and dedication of its staff. 

“As Parramatta and Western Sydney continues to grow it is comforting for families to know that the best healthcare, they may ever need for their children is available right on their doorstep with the construction of this incredible new facility.”  

Quotes attributable to Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Cathryn Cox PSM: 

"This is another important milestone in our redevelopment project, with the new facilities reflecting the exceptional care our clinicians and support staff deliver each and every day. 

“We look forward to moving into the new building in the coming months, and seeing the positive impact these modern spaces, technology and equipment will have on the health and wellbeing of the children and families that we care for.”   ​