Everyone should be able to access the health care they need, close to home, when they need it.

That is why my government is investing in better health services across NSW.

The $411 million St George Hospital Stage 3 redevelopment will be a crucial addition to healthcare services for our growing local community.

It will provide staff, patients and carers with a first-class facility, designed to meet the health needs of this area, now and into the future.

The new Kensington Street Building will centralise a range of services currently scattered around the hospital campus.

The building will also include three levels of inpatient beds and the new Cognitive Transition and Aged Care specialty units.

As part of our plan to improve health and patient outcomes, Labor is also building 25 more Urgent Care Clinics across the state over the next two years.

Urgent Care Clinics are free medical clinics that treat a range of illnesses and injuries that are serious, but not life-threatening.

A free Urgent Care Clinic has already opened its doors in Carlton, and is open 7 days a week, 8am to 8pm.

We have also invested more than $200 million to reduce overdue surgeries, allocating funding towards fast tracking planned surgeries and boosting hospital capacity, like St George, to ensure planned surgeries can be delivered on time.

We are already seeing positive results; we've cut the elective surgery waiting list (waiting longer than clinically recommended) from 14,000 to 3500 in one year.

NSW Labor is working every day to solve these problems and get our health system back on track.

We have saved 1,112 nursing jobs, delivered record pay increases for our nurses to improve recruitment and retention rates and rolled out 500 additional paramedics.

We know there is still much more to do, but we are making progress to rebuild the health system and give you and your family the best possible care.