Over the past 18 months, NSW Health Pathol­o­gy has deliv­ered nine new or refur­bished lab­o­ra­to­ries across the state, with cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy, faster test­ing and mod­ern, fit-for-pur­pose facil­i­ties to ben­e­fit patients, clin­i­cians and staff.

NSW Health Pathol­o­gy is proud to be trans­form­ing pathol­o­gy ser­vices across Syd­ney and region­al NSW through a major pro­gram of new builds and exten­sive refur­bish­ment of exist­ing labs.

Since mid-2024, we have opened or are about to open new lab­o­ra­to­ries at:
• Liverpool
• Griffith
• Wyong
• Narrabri
• Moree
• Hawkesbury
• Cowra (due to open Decem­ber 2025)
• Coffs Har­bour (due to open Decem­ber 2025)
• Dub­bo (due to open ear­ly 2026)

The Coffs Har­bour lab­o­ra­to­ry refurbishment.

But the invest­ments don’t stop there. There are a num­ber of oth­er sites cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion includ­ing Ryde, Shell­har­bour, Shoal­haven (Nowra), Euro­bo­dal­la and Moree (part of the planned hos­pi­tal redevelopment).

Look­ing for­ward, more upgrades are planned for Can­ter­bury, Bankstown, Fair­field, Rouse Hill and a Statewide Pathol­o­gy Hub at West­mead.

Open­ing a new lab­o­ra­to­ry is no small feat. Our teams often main­tain test­ing ser­vices right up to, dur­ing and imme­di­ate­ly after relo­ca­tion, to ensure patients con­tin­ue to receive qual­i­ty care.

Each new lab­o­ra­to­ry is also required to under­go a rig­or­ous accred­i­ta­tion by Australia’s lead­ing accred­i­ta­tion organ­i­sa­tion, NATA (Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Test­ing Author­i­ties). These reg­u­lar audits ensure all NSW Health Pathology’s lab­o­ra­to­ries meet the high­est inter­na­tion­al standards.

Three of the new labs – Hawkes­bury, Moree and Narrabri – have tran­si­tioned from oth­er pathol­o­gy providers to NSW Health Pathol­o­gy this year. We are excit­ed to be part of these com­mu­ni­ties and pro­vid­ing locals with access to high qual­i­ty pathol­o­gy test­ing and col­lec­tion services.

As well as rede­vel­op­ing our lab­o­ra­to­ries, we’ve been invest­ing in advanced diag­nos­tic tech­nol­o­gy, includ­ing point of care test­ing and high-tech auto­mat­ed chem­istry analy­sers that are expand­ing capac­i­ty and speed­ing up turn­around times at many of the new labs.

Since 2023, NSW Health Pathol­o­gy has invest­ed $56 mil­lion to upgrade chem­i­cal pathol­o­gy analy­sers across the state, one of the largest equip­ment replace­ment projects we’ve ever undertaken.

By replac­ing age­ing chem­i­cal pathol­o­gy analy­sers across NSW, we can pro­vide new lev­els of automa­tion which means a faster, more effi­cient ser­vice for patients and clin­i­cians. Automa­tion is key to being able to make best use of our people’s time and exper­tise, and this will ensure we can meet the chang­ing, com­plex needs of patients.

What our people are saying

“We have a love­ly new col­lec­tions space, and the new lab is spa­cious and filled with lots of nat­ur­al light. We also increased the lab’s oper­at­ing hours to 24/7 to ensure we were meet­ing the needs of the com­mu­ni­ty when the new hos­pi­tal opened.”
- Jody Landy, Grif­fith lab manager

“I am excit­ed for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to lead this new team and ensure the deliv­ery of qual­i­ty, safe and reli­able ser­vices. I look for­ward to get­ting to know every­one at Hawkesbury.”
- Bless­ings Ndlovu, Hawkes­bury lab manager

“Pathol­o­gy is an essen­tial sup­port ser­vice for the Liv­er­pool Hos­pi­tal and the upgrade of pathol­o­gy ser­vices is com­ing at a cru­cial time for the hos­pi­tal. We are proud to be embrac­ing new tech­nolo­gies and set­ting the bench­mark in patient care for South West­ern Syd­ney com­mu­ni­ties, and the peo­ple of NSW.”
- Parth Nana­vati, Senior Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er South West­ern Sydney

These invest­ments mean faster, more accu­rate results for clin­i­cians and patients, improved access to pathol­o­gy ser­vices in region­al com­mu­ni­ties, and mod­ern work­places for our ded­i­cat­ed staff.

It’s all part of our com­mit­ment to deliv­er­ing world-class pathol­o­gy ser­vices for the peo­ple of NSW.

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