ACT project account
Improving Canberra's Health Infrastructure – Northside Hospital Development / Delivering the new Northside Hospital
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Reporting boundary
The project appears under three separate agency lines in the 2026-27 Budget: Infrastructure Canberra (the build, $1,471.215m), Canberra Health Services (enabling works / North Canberra Hospital enhancement, $21.620m, and the Northside Hospital Transition Project, $12.000m) and Health and Community Services Directorate (detailed design, $9.844m). They are recorded here and in adjacent records separately because the Budget does not consolidate them. The Budget Outlook states the hospital 'will include more than 300 treatment spaces' and 'increased emergency department, medical imaging, Intensive Care Unit and operating theatre capacity' — the source says treatment spaces, NOT beds, so no bed count is recorded. The seed note's '$1.34bn over seven years' figure is NOT the number printed in the 2026-27 Budget; the Budget prints $1,471,215 thousand (iCBR table) and 'more than $1.3 billion' (narrative).
Project structure
How this record relates to other projects
Has phase
Northside Hospital design and early worksDesign, early and enabling works precede the main whole-delivery commitment.Source and location
Document mining
ACT Budget 2025-26 — Budget Statements G (Infrastructure Canberra), incl. Table 15: 2025-26 Infrastructure Canberra Infrastructure Program ($'000) and Table 13 Discontinued Accountability Indicators
2025-26 Budget Statements G (Infrastructure Canberra), Table 15: 2025-26 Infrastructure Canberra Infrastructure Program ($'000), 'Works in progress' section, page 23
Improving Canberra's health infrastructure - Northside Hospital development | 129,995 | 49,755 | 64,064 | 0 | 0 | 113,819 | TBD
Open original source: ACT Budget 2025-26 — Budget Statements G (Infrastructure Canberra), incl. Table 15: 2025-26 Infrastructure Canberra Infrastructure Program ($'000) and Table 13 Discontinued Accountability Indicators
Project account
Reviewed baseline and latest estimate
Current forecast
| First promised | Reviewed outcome |
|---|---|
| Original estimateNot reported | Current forecast$1.47bnAs printed: 1471215 ($'000)Improving Canberra’s Health Infrastructure – Delivering the new Northside Hospital | Infrastructure Canberra | Works-in-progress | Construction | Health Services | Health | Belconnen | 1471215Reviewed interpretationWhole-project total investment · Current forecast · act-northside-whole-deliveryMachine-readSource and locationDocument mining Searchable Database - 2026-27 Budget (Infrastructure Investment Program, 273 project rows, column 'Total Revised Project Value ($'000)') Searchable Database - 2026-27 Budget.xlsx, sheet 'Master Data', row 16, column "Total Revised Project Value ($'000)" Improving Canberra’s Health Infrastructure – Delivering the new Northside Hospital | Infrastructure Canberra | Works-in-progress | Construction | Health Services | Health | Belconnen | 1471215 Open original source: Searchable Database - 2026-27 Budget (Infrastructure Investment Program, 273 project rows, column 'Total Revised Project Value ($'000)') |
Direct change
Not directly comparableComparison status
Not applicable. Reason not reported.
Cost as published, edition by edition
What each edition said this would cost
2 observations
| Edition | Published figure | Publisher | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $1.47bnAs printed: 1,471,215 ($'000)Whole-project total investment, accepted interpretation, eligible for a project headlineReviewed interpretationWhole-project total investment · Current forecast · act-northside-whole-delivery | Document mining | Machine-read |
| 2026-27 | $1.47bnAs printed: 1471215 ($'000)Whole-project total investment, accepted interpretation, eligible for a project headlineReviewed interpretationWhole-project total investment · Current forecast · act-northside-whole-delivery | Document mining | Machine-read |
Movement across editions
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Cost basis is not stated for both figures, so the difference is not meaningful.
Sources
Original documents
Document mining, ACT Budget 2026-27 — Budget Statements G (Infrastructure Canberra), incl. Table 9: 2026-27 Infrastructure Canberra Infrastructure Program ($'000)
Statement G (Infrastructure Canberra), Table 9: 2026-27 Infrastructure Canberra Infrastructure Program ($'000), 'Works in progress' section, page 18
Open original sourceDocument mining, Searchable Database - 2026-27 Budget (Infrastructure Investment Program, 273 project rows, column 'Total Revised Project Value ($'000)')
Searchable Database - 2026-27 Budget.xlsx, sheet 'Master Data', row 16, column "Total Revised Project Value ($'000)"
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