The new facility will integrate scattered components of the outpatient service and improve access for the public. The building will be two storeys with parking underneath. The sloping site enables public access at ground level, with doctors and nurses offices upstairs connecting into the main hospital. At present outpatient facilities are very unsatisfactory.
Buildings are in substandard condition and no longer cope with demand.
The master plan recommends that the General Outpatient Department be demolished because it has no long term value as a building. The proposed new building will be critical in supporting planned mechanisms of referred care levels. Economies of scale realised with staffing, use of rooms and keeping of records.