Health and wellbeing
A wealth of health opportunities
Is your health business looking for opportunities to grow?
The health and wellbeing industry is booming on the Sunshine Coast, propelled by the $5 billion Sunshine Coast Health Precinct, which is Australia’s largest health infrastructure project currently being developed.
Add an ideal climate and natural environment and you have the ideal location for clever health-related businesses.
Emerging opportunities
Key capital investment projects are changing the face of the Sunshine Coast and paving the way for a stronger economy.
Emerging opportunities include:
- Research centres of excellence
- Wellness in aged care: programs, research, education, technology and facilities
Health and wellbeing digital solutions
Digital health technology platforms and applications providing connected access to healthcare as well as innovative solutions to in-home care and national health challenges.
Opportunities also exist for technology-based health-related businesses and organisations with large scale data needs to leverage the fast, direct connection delivered by the Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network.
Supporting entrepreneurship in health
The SunRamp Healthtech Accelerator helps healthtech startups go further, faster by focusing on pathways to revenue and making deals, not just demo days.
SunRamp is designed to boost the growth of later stage startups who are ready to scale up with technology products targeting solutions to the health and wellbeing sectors.
Commercial investment
Vitality Village brings together health and wellbeing innovators
Vitality Village is an integrated community health space located in the Sunshine Coast Health Precinct.
Ideally located opposite the Sunshine Coast University Hospital and easily accessible from key arterials, Vitality Village links community service providers, industry leaders and change-makers for collective impact.
Fast, healthy facts
- The health industry is the Sunshine Coast’s largest employer
- $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital
- $150 million Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital
- $60.8 million Sunshine Coast Health Institute
- $830 million masterplan development adjacent to the Sunshine Coast Health Precinct
World-class research facilities
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