$1.8b hospital not a major fire risk: Health department

The region's new $1.8 billion hospital has been cleared of being a major fire hazard as part of a statewide review following London's Grenfell Tower blaze.

Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) has been cleared of major fire risk. Picture: Contributed

THE region's new $1.8 billion hospital has been cleared of being a major fire hazard as part of a statewide review following London's Grenfell Tower blaze.

The fire which claimed more than 70 lives and destroyed the 23-storey West London unit block last June triggered a statewide review of government-owned and private buildings.

The recently released 2017-18 Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service annual report said two health service buildings - Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the Nambour General Hospital - had been identified for further testing and review by the Cladding Investigation and Remediation Program.

The report said the health service was still waiting for the outcome of testing in August.

But on Thursday a Queensland Health spokeswoman said fire engineers had confirmed no testing of building materials was needed on the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

The spokeswoman said a review of SCUH had found none of the Aluminium Composite Panel Cladding in question had been used on any buildings.

"The review recommended further investigations of some hardwood and polycarbonate elements,” the spokeswoman said.

"These elements are located in external areas, none of which directly impact on patient care areas.

"Visitors and staff are reassured the building has excellent firefighting systems and evacuation procedures in place.”

All sampling and testing of cladding had been finished on Nambour General Hospital and "minor areas of suspect cladding were identified”.

The spokeswoman said "no immediate risk mitigation works” had been recommended by fire engineers.

"Further fire engineering will be undertaken to determine if any of these components need to be replaced,” she said.

By late-February more than 27,000 building approvals were assessed by the State Government taskforce as part of the review and 879 government buildings were referred for further investigation.

Of those, 71 were still to be ruled out as a risk by February.

The taskforce also identified about 12,000 private buildings likely to need review and expected about 10 per cent of those to require detailed assessment.