Civil Secure Unit - Campbelltown Hospital

Announced in 2019, the unit's construction is funded under the NSW Government's $700 million Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program (SWMHIP).

Project information

The unit will be based within the hospital's new clinical services building and co-located to operate alongside the general acute mental health unit. 

The gender separated unit will provide care for consumers with complex mental health and behavioural symptoms and work towards the transition of long stay patients to community-based services. 

The facility has been co-designed with, families, carers and health professionals, to ensure a holistic, patient-centred service is built that will meet the needs of these long stay consumers.

Benefits

The project will provide: 

• better mental health, physical health and wellbeing outcomes for complex needs consumers
• improved patient and carer satisfaction through delivery of patient centred and recovery-oriented care
• increased access to appropriate care
• enhanced capacity and improved efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services
• infrastructure that is co-designed by consumers, their family, carers and staff
• improved patient and staff safety (workplace health and safety, seclusion incidents). 

Scope

A new 16-bed civil secure unit that will include: 

• patient consult rooms
• internal and external communal patient areas
• nurses' stations that will be integrated into the communal spaces. 

This project is being delivered by Health Infrastructure in partnership with South Western Sydney Local Health District as part of the Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment Stage 2.