'Ethically, it's wrong': Questions over timing of Calvary acquisition

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith, left, and Opposition health spokesman Jeremy Hanson. Pictures ACM

The ACT government will launch a compulsory acquisition process to take control and ownership of Calvary Public Hospital Bruce in the coming weeks.

It will be the biggest acquisition in the history of self-government and the government said it is being done so work can begin on a new $1 billion hospital for Canberra's booming north.