Stage 1 of LGH Masterplan complete

Julia Bullock, Craig Shennan, Anne O'Byrne and Premier Jeremy Rockliff at the opening of the Education and Learning Hub.  

November 2022

Last month the Launceston General Hospital’s $580 million redevelopment hit a key milestone, with the official opening of two facilities.

A new $20 million women's and children precinct represents the first time the two services have been offered in the same building, while a new $11 million education and learning hub will also serve the hospital’s Nursing Education Unit and Tasmanian Health Services North.

Both facilities have been given names in palawa kani – the language of Tasmanian Aboriginals.

Attached to the LGH, the Women and Children’s Precinct ‘lutha’ meaning gumtree, includes an outpatient clinic, a 34-bed children’s ward and pregnancy and gynaecology outpatient services. 

The Education and Learning Hub, located on the corner of Frankland and Charles streets, replaces the former TasTAFE Drysdale campus, and is now known as ‘tunapri mapali’ meaning lots of knowledge.

Level 1 of this building is now home to the Anne O’Byrne Education Centre.

Anne O’Byrne AM was a founding member of the Clifford Craig Foundation and served on a number of health, women's and political boards between the 1960s until 1994.

The existing Anne O’Byrne Centre, on the corner of Howick and Charles streets, will now be replaced as part of redevelopment’s second stage next year.

The hospital masterplan is being completed in four stages over the next decade. It will also see the office of the Clifford Craig Foundation, currently on level 5 of the LGH, moved to the Northern Integrated Care Unit.