Advocacy - Yanchep Hospital

The City of Wanneroo is one of the largest and fastest growing local governments in Australia, already home to more than 250,000 people across 685km2. The population is projected to grow to more than 438,000 people by 2046, which places strong pressure on existing infrastructure and services.

The current population of the catchment for a proposed Yanchep Hospital is 74,118 people and is forecast to grow to 185,614 people by 2046. 

Despite this expansion, there is currently no hospital within 27 kilometres (approximately a 26-minute drive) of this rapidly growing Strategic Centre, creating a significant gap in access to acute health services.

As a designated Strategic Centre, Yanchep plays a key role in supporting Perth’s northern growth corridor by providing jobs, infrastructure and services closer to where people live. Without a local hospital, residents must continue to rely on already overburdened metropolitan facilities, increasing travel times and delaying access to care.

Planned housing growth and State-supported land releases in the Yanchep corridor will accelerate population growth and further increase demand for health services.

Serving a rapidly expanding metropolitan fringe and a broader catchment extending into surrounding peri-urban communities, demand for a local hospital is urgent and continuing to grow in line with rapid population expansion.
 

Both the State and Federal Governments have recognised the need for health services in Yanchep. 

The Yanchep Two Rocks District Structure Plan, which identifies a hospital for Yanchep, was endorsed by the State Government in 2008. During the 2025 State election, Premier Cook reaffirmed the need for a hospital in Yanchep within the next 10 years, noting the land parcel has been identified.

Recent investment in primary and urgent care infrastructure provides a strong foundation for staged delivery of a future hospital in Yanchep. In 2024, the State Government partnered with Edith Cowan University to deliver a two-stage health centre including general practice, nursing and allied health. 
The Federal Government further strengthened access to care with the opening of an Urgent Medicare Clinic in February 2026.

However, significant service gaps remain.

There is now an opportunity to build on this investment to deliver integrated, world-class health services, support clinical training and research and futureproof the health and wellbeing of a rapidly growing community. 

To meet current and future demand, the Yanchep Strategic Centre requires a local hospital integrating primary, secondary and hospice care, with the capacity to expand to a tertiary-level facility over time.
The hospital should leverage modern technology and deliver:

• 24/7 inpatient needs
• Outpatient services
• Local access to medical specialists
• Inpatient and outpatient palliative care and co-located day hospice respite services. 

Access to palliative care is currently limited across Perth’s northwest sub-region, which has only 22 inpatient beds across public and private providers. Day hospice services are located 30–85km from the City’s southernmost and northernmost communities, creating significant barriers for patients and families at end of life.

A Yanchep Hospital would address this critical gap while significantly improving access to timely, local care for residents across the northern corridor.

Yanchep Hospital main catchment population and forecast hospital bed demand

Source: Population and household forecasts, 2021 to 2046, prepared by .id (informed decisions), March 2024.

A local hospital will also support health workforce attraction and retention, reduce long commuting times and strengthen local employment opportunities.

• Yanchep Hospital - Advocacy Factsheet - (PDF 8.7 MB)

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