Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre building, 2016
Geography
Location Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates 37°48′1″S 144°57′24″E / 37.80028°S 144.95667°E / -37.80028; 144.95667Coordinates: 37°48′1″S 144°57′24″E / 37.80028°S 144.95667°E / -37.80028; 144.95667
Organisation
Care system Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type Specialist
Affiliated university The University of Melbourne
Services
Helipad No
Beds
Speciality Cancer
History
Founded 24 June 2016 (2016-06-24)
Links
Website www.victorianccc.org.au
Lists Hospitals in Australia

The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary specialist cancer hospital and research centre located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The VCCC comprises an alliance between The University of Melbourne, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Health, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, the Royal Women's Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital, Western Health, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Austin Health, and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.[1]

Comprising two facilities located on two sites, the VCCC building opened on 24 June 2016 in Melbourne's Parkville Biomedical Precinct, located on the intersections of Flemington Road, Grattan Street and Elizabeth Street. The building houses the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, formerly in East Melbourne.[2] The second facility is located inside the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The two sites are joined by pedestrian bridges over Grattan Street.

Cancer services

Building project

Designed by architects from Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc and McBride Charles Ryan,[3] the building project was delivered as a public-private partnership, costing A$1.2 billion. The project was delivered by the Plenary Health consortium, comprising PPP specialist Plenary Group, builders Grocon and PCL, and financiers including National Australia Bank. In 2015 the Premier, Daniel Andrews, made a controversial alteration to the project, removing a private hospital planned for the centre.[4] In the months prior to its opening, building management signed tenants for commercial spaces including four cafes, a shop and a pharmacy.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Alliance". Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Pty Ltd. 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Our new home" (Press release). Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Spooner, Rania (5 February 2016). "Inside Melbourne's new state-of-the-art cancer centre". The Age. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Medew, Julia (3 April 2015). "Fury as Daniel Andrews axes private Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre hospital at Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Johanson, Simon (15 July 2015). "Plenary Health signs up cafe tenants for new cancer centre". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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