Centre's growth to cut wait times for infusions.
 

Concord Hospital’s Day Therapy Centre has expanded its capacity by 50 per cent with the opening of 16 new infusion chairs in recent months.

Eight new chairs were commissioned in September 2025, with the remaining eight chairs coming online in November 2025. The new chairs take the capacity of the centre to 48.

Day Therapy Centre Nursing Unit Manager Joy Contemplacion said the centre’s expansion would ease pressures elsewhere in the hospital.

“We had a wait list,” she said.

“Just over 55 patients who were waiting for long term spots in our Day Therapy Centre were actually being admitted to the ward, using up an acute hospital bed for an admission just for the day for their infusion, and then they'd be discharged.

“So having these new chairs and taking those 55 patients off the wait list has been a great service, not only for the patients, but also for the hospital.”

Joy said the Day Therapy Centre had recruited seven new nurses and had secured new equipment to monitor patients and document the care the centre delivers.

The Day Therapy Centre provides an Outpatient Service for Concord Hospital, taking referrals from a range of different specialties, including (but not limited to), Oncology, Haematology, Neurology, Immunology, Rheumatology, Renal and Gastroenterology.

The Specialist Nurses are accredited in a range of disciplines to support the centre’s work, including ultrasound-guided cannulation, management of central venous access devices, chemotherapy/immunotherapy and supportive therapies.

Joy said she believed the services offered by the Day Therapy Centre would continue to grow as innovative new treatments were developed.

“I think we're going to see, long term, new therapies come out and see those therapies get PBS listed so more patients can access them,” she said.

“We're seeing new therapies for Myasthenia Gravis, new treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and other diagnoses.”