The NSW government will spend $7.7 billion over the next four years on new hospitals and hospital redevelopments, including $720 million for the ageing Prince of Wales at Randwick, as part of a $23 billion spend on health just in the next year alone.

That includes the first few tranches of the $536 million over eight years promised to eHealth, including $29m for electronic medications management, $6 million for corporate systems and $4.5m for ICT for NSW Ambulance in 2017-18. There is also $73m for the year for the continued roll-out of the Cerner electronic medical record (eMR), the HealtheNet clinical data repository and upgrading digital infrastructure.