Coomera Hospital: What state budget means for public health facility ahead of 2027 opening

The under-review Coomera Hospital project’s future has been revealed after months of uncertainty about the northern Gold Coast health facility. FIND OUT MORE

The Coomera Hospital will be built under a $11.4 billion statewide infrastructure spend once a review is completed, according to Budget documents.

Specific funding for the hospital is not listed in the Budget papers, released on Tuesday, but it is covered in a $911 million spend on the infrastructure scheme in 2025-26.

The spend is down from $1.1 billion on the previous year, however it will be ramped up after reviews on the hospital builds are finalised and new contracts with private construction companies signed off.

Artist impression of the new Coomera Public Hospital: Picture: Supplied by Queensland state government.

The spend will increase post 2025-26 and covers new hospitals at Bundaberg and Toowoomba, along with expansions at Redcliffe, Cairns and Prince Charles hospitals.

Health sources say the review on Coomera Hospital will see a better value contract negotiated in the future.

Under Labor, the LNP Government says the cost was stated to be $1.3 billion with the build due to be finished in September 2027.

But the Capacity Expansion Program independent report, sought by the Crisafulli Government, found costs had blown out to $2.2 billion with the earliest completion of Coomera to be in March 2028.

Concrete is poured at the Coomera Hospital site on Tuesday September 3.

Treasurer David Janetzki said Queenslanders had endured an ailing health system for too long, with 45 per cent ambulance ramping, ballooning elective surgery waitlists and deteriorating infrastructure.

“In 2025–26, the Health Budget will reach a record $29.4 billion, a 10.2 per cent increase,” he said.

“With new hospitals to be built at Toowoomba, Coomera and Bundaberg, and expansions for 10 existing hospitals, it will deliver more than 2600 hospital beds across the state.”

Key health takeaways from 2025-26 State Budget include:

* More health workers, growing the workforce to 10,733 full time workers across the Coast.

* $14 million for the new Southport East ambulance station.

* $5.5 million to redevelop the Pimpama ambulance station to be fit for purpose.

* $8.9 million to relocate Child Youth Mental Health Services to enable Adult Community Health to expand.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls said the budget was the single greatest investment in health care in the State’s history.

“The Budget delivers funding needed to properly maintain our health facilities from the Cape to Currumbin, while also delivering the new hospitals needed for Queensland’s future,” he said.

“More Queenslanders will access elective surgeries sooner under a $1.7 billion investment, including expansion of the Surgery Connector Program.”

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Originally published as Coomera Hospital: What state budget means for public health facility ahead of 2027 opening