Rouse Hill Hospital update August 2025
Summary of the latest Rouse Hill Hospital development updates in August 2025.
This month, we announce our upcoming community information sessions and share a survey on comprehensive maternity services at Rouse Hill Hospital. We also feature stories on youth and Aboriginal engagement as well as a profile of some of the key women in our Rouse Hill Hospital team.
Come to our community information sessions!
You’re invited to join us at our upcoming community information displays to learn more about the early works planning application now on public exhibition, and further planning and design work for new Rouse Hill Hospital Development.
Community information display locations:
Tuesday 12 August 10.00am-2.00pm Castle Towers, near Coles
Wednesday 13 August 10.00am-2.00pm at Schofields Village, near Coles
Thursday 14 August 11.00am-1.00pm at Blacktown Hospital, outside Gloria Jeans
The Early Works Review of Environmental Factors and supporting technical documents will be available to view here, and feedback can be provided via the website until 11.59pm on 29 August 2025.
Have your say on comprehensive maternity services at Rouse Hill Hospital
Planning and design work to include comprehensive maternity services at Rouse Hill Hospital has now started and we want to know what’s important to the local community.
Please provide your feedback in a short online survey here. The survey will be open until 11.59pm on 29 August.
These insights are vital to ensuring the new comprehensive maternity services reflect the needs and lived experiences of the people they are designed to support.
Women in construction: Spotlight on some of the key women in the Rouse Hill Hospital team
We spoke to a couple of key female players in the Rouse Hill Hospital team, Rowena Sequeira, Julianne Harvey and Silvia Campos, with expertise spanning from nursing and hospital project management to architecture.
Each of them share their interesting career insights and advice.
Honouring 'Country' in the new Rouse Hill Hospital design
A series of Connecting with Country workshops have been held, bringing together local Dharug people, architects, planning and design teams to ensure the new hospital reflects and respects Dharug cultural values and knowledge.
These important gatherings create space for meaningful dialogue, allowing Traditional Custodians to share stories, knowledge, and priorities that will shape the hospital’s design in a culturally sensitive and inclusive way.
Giving a voice to the local youth
In some of the quieter spaces of the Westmead Education and Conference Centre, The Rouse Hill Hospital team and the WSLHD Youth Council work together to give a voice to young people in the planning and design of the new Rouse Hill Hospital.
The WSLHD Youth Council, comprised of young people aged between 16 and 24, provide consumer input into a range of projects across the district ensuring the voices of young people are included in planning for health services.
Feedback from consumers
Our Consumer Reference Group last met in June 2025 and were provided an update from the architects, HDR. The group discussed ambulance access, site access and access from the car park to the hospital.
The main entry plan was also shared which features a spiritual care and wellbeing space, lobby, toilets, waiting area, retail and security department. The patient arrival journey was also discussed including the ability for outpatients to utilise spaces downstairs in the 'care arcade' which includes retail spaces until they get notified to go up to their appointment.
The consumers then worked in small groups with the architects where they were consulted on separate unit layouts including specialist clinics, renal dialysis service, rehabilitation inpatient unit, and the emergency department. Feedback for the emergency department included having additional interview rooms for clinicians to have sensitive and private conversations with families, and having the entry connect with reception and triage to ensure it was obvious where people should go first.