UnitingCare plans a $250m Comprehensive Cancer and Day Surgery Centre

The state government has given its tick of approval for a leading not-for-profit’s development of a $250m cancer and day surgery centre at an inner city private hospital.

An artist's impression of the entrance to UnitingCare's new Comprehensive Cancer and Day Surgery Centres linked to The Wesley Hospital Campus.

Not-for-profit private hospital operator UnitingCare plans to expand its Wesley Hospital Campus with a $250m Comprehensive Cancer and Day Surgery Centre has taken a step closer.

The Queensland Government issued a Ministerial Infrastructure Designation approval for a

new 10-storey health precinct connected to The Wesley Hospital via a pedestrian bridge.

It has been envisaged as Brisbane’s largest private comprehensive cancer centre and will focus on advancing treatment through collaboration, research and innovation.

The facility will also feature a new day surgery centre, radiology, radiation oncology bunkers and dedicated cancer care services.

An artist's impression of UnitingCare's development at The Wesley.

UnitingCare will anchor the precinct with a day surgery and other established health services, and is actively inviting health, research and cancer care organisations to register their interest in being part of what will be a thriving health ecosystem.

We hear that Hutchies has been appoint to build the centre.

The new health facility is part of UnitingCare’s broader portfolio growth in healthcare services and builds on the recent opening of St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Day Surgery Centre.

As well as The Wesley Hospital, UnitingCare operates St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, and St Stephen’s Hospital.

Staying on

Former Queensland Investment Corporation chief executive and chairman of the QTC Capital Markets Board Damien Frawley has quietly extended his three-year term by another six months.

Frawley’s three-year term at QTC was up on June 30 and it has been confirmed he will finish his tour of duty on December 31.

Why he was asked or felt the need to stay one we don’t know but when Citybeat caught up with him in March he couldn’t confirm what his exact plans were.

Frawley (illustrated) was appointed by the then Labor government in 2022 and is well respected by both sides of politics.

Chairman of the QTC Capital Markets Board Damien Frawley.

In the same broad space we hear of a new partnership between QIC and one of Queensland’s largest superannuation funds.

A $50m mandate will see Brighter Super and QIC invest Queenslanders’ retirement savings back into the Queensland economy to drive productivity.

With QIC as investment manager, the mandate will generate investment in innovative

Queensland companies across a range of sectors, particularly those leveraging rapidly

developing artificial intelligence technology, digitisation, agtech, healthtech and frontier tech.

Initial investments will include Attekus, Australia’s leading booking and event management

platform provider tailored to local councils and government, and autonomous agriculture

pioneers SwarmFarm Robotics.

The mandate is part of Brighter Super’s Queensland Investment Strategy which will see an

additional $500m invested into Queensland assets in the next three to five years.

Smoko time

The Waterfront Brisbane construction team is celebrating a project milestone this week with the core foundations for the north tower now complete.

The Dexus development team, led by project director Matt Beasley and the John Holland construction team, led by Tony Froio, gathered for a frosty beer or two at Riverland to mark the occasion.

After two and half years of dismantling the old Eagle Street Pier and establishing foundations, the 52-storey north tower will start to emerge in the coming months.

The John Holland construction team reckon they have earned a beer – they have been working double shifts to make up lost time after a particularly wet summer.

Construction site of the Waterfront Brisbane development at the site of the old Eagle St Pier. Picture Lachie Millard

Originally published as UnitingCare plans a $250m Comprehensive Cancer and Day Surgery Centre