Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals to be split in two under expansion plan

Daniel Andrews announces 12-year strategy to separate emergency care from elective surgery

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Emergency care and elective surgery would no longer be provided under one roof at Victoria's Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's hospitals as part of an expansion touted by the Andrews government as the nation's largest hospital infrastructure project.

The state government on Tuesday committed to creating a new medical precinct to deliver non-urgent treatment near the inner north Melbourne site of the Arden train station.

Australian Associated Press contributed to this report