AN allocation of $10.3 million to the second and third stages of the John Hunter Hospital's neonatal unit tops the Hunter Region's list of health spending promises in this year's budget.
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All up, the expansion is set to cost $18 million and to be finished in 2018.
Singleton Hospital is also receiving $5.4 million this year of a $7 milion upgrade, also timed to finish in 2018.
These are the only two new major works listed in the Hunter health budget.
The list of Hunter works in progress includes a $7.5 milion allocation to the John Hunter under the "Energy Efficient Government Program" or EEGP title.
John Hunter Children's Hospital paediatric intensive care unit also receives $5.1 million in 2016-17, the final tranche of a $14 million project that began in 2014.
Muswellbrook Hospital's redevelopment stage two receives $2.9 million of a $19.9 million project that began in 2015 and which is due to finish in 2019, with $1 million spent so far.
Maitland's new hospital receives $6.2 million in planning and site preparation funds, money added to the $13.6 million spent already on a $20 million planning stage that began in 2013.
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