Mona Vale Hospital

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Mona Vale Hospital provides medical services to the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, Australia. Their official homepage is at http://www.nsh.nsw.gov.au/monavale/ and contains a brief history of the hospital from 1964 until the present day.

The Northern Sydney and Central Coast Health Service is responsible for the management of Mona Vale Hospital [1]

[edit] Future of Mona Vale Hospital

The future of Manly Hospital and Mona Vale hospitals had been the subject of considerable public debate. The major focus of the debate was whether two hospitals were required on Sydney's Northern Beaches and if there was to be only one hospital, where it should be located.

In December 2000, the "Save Mona Vale Hospital" Committee was formed to campaign for the preservation of the hospital.

On 26 November 2005, a by-election was held in the electorate of Pittwater (which was traditionally a safe Liberal seat). The by-election was won by an independent (the mayor of Pittwater Council, Alex McTaggart) campaigning on the Save Mona Vale Hospital platform.

In February 2006, Pittwater Council resolved to adopt a proposal to use some nearby playing fields at Warriewood as the venue for a new level 5 hospital (instead of the current site). This led to bitter recriminations and a public meeting which voted against the Council proposal.

On 30 March 2006, the NSW Minister for Health announced that a new hospital would be built in Frenchs Forest and that Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals would be downgraded. The new hospital is expected to be complete by 2012.