TWO weeks out from the election, federal MP Andrew Laming has announced a $30 million upgrade to the Redland Hospital.
The 11th-hour funding comes after months of disputes between the state and federal governments over expenditure and allocations for the hospital.
Mr Laming said the injection represented the largest federal funding investment at Redland Hospital since its construction in 1999.
He said the money would be used to connect the renal dialysis building with the main hospital and relocate administrative services.
"The administrative space left vacant may be repurposed for clinical infrastructure to meet the demand on Redland Hospital for current and emerging services," Mr Laming said.
He said the works would enable Redland Hospital to be more self-sufficient.
"Increased service capacity will mean better health equity for the community," Mr Laming said.
Digital health services would also receive a boost.
In response to Mr Laming, Capalaba MP Don Brown said the state government had received no information about the announcement, what it was for or when the funding would become available.
"Is this going to be like other recent LNP announcements, where the money won't be available for years down the track, like 2023-24?" Mr Brown said.
"Andrew Laming's record on health is clear, the federal government has cut $52.7 million from Metro South Hospital and Health Service, including Redland Hospital."
Redlands MP Kim Richards said the Palaszczuk government was investing $1.5 million in a preliminary business case to plan for future hospital upgrades.
She said the business case was critical.
"It will look at all options to expand our public health services and build the capacity of Redland Hospital to meet future growth," she said.
"It will include options for additional infrastructure, additional beds and an intensive care unit.
"You wouldn't hand your money to builder without a plan and hope for the best, and you don't do that for a hospital expansion either."
Ms Richards said the federal government and Mr Laming should pay back money they already owed rather than make unbudgeted funding commitments two weeks out from an election.
The state and federal governments have been at loggerheads for months over hospital funding.
Last month the state government announced that work would start immediately on a $1.5 million preliminary business case to redevelop and expand the hospital.
Capalaba MP Don Brown said at the time the business case followed the completion of a master plan that looked at what infrastructure might be needed.
The Queensland government had already started to build a four-bed expansion to the emergency department and a birthing suite with birthing pool, while infrastructure replacement projects were also under way.
A business case for a car park was also under way and expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Mr Laming said the federal government had given the region's health service increases of $83 million last year and $96 million this year, together with $16 million for the hospital car park and $15 million to council to upgrade roads into the hospital precinct.
Mr Miles has said federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Mr Laming were playing politics, trying to distract from a $156 million cut to Queensland hospitals by the Morrison government.
"That's a $23.8 million cut from Metro South hospitals, including $1 million from Redlands Hospital," he said.
"It is simply not true to say the state has provided less.
"Funding from the Queensland government has increased year-on-year since we came to government in 2015."
Mr Brown said in response to this announcement that the Palaszczuk government was committed to improving health care for the Redlands.
"We've increased the Metro South budget to a record $2.4 billion for Metro South in 2018-19 and since 2015 we've employed an additional 153 nurses and midwives, 37 doctors and 21 health professionals at Redland Hospital," he said.
"We're currently delivering a range of capital improvements including an expansion of the emergency department, an upgrade to the maternity unit to include a water birthing suite, bringing the total number of birthing suites to seven."
