Children with cancer will have access to Australia’s first Comprehensive Children’s Cancer Centre and a new emergency department at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick.

The NSW and federal governments have committed $528 million to fund the centre and emergency department that will be more than 50 per cent bigger than the current ED, state and national health ministers Brad Hazzard and Greg Hunt announced on Friday.

Mr Hunt said the centre would for the first time give children from across Australia the same level of integrated cancer care experienced by adults.

It will bring the latest research “from the laboratory bench to the bedside”, with scientists and clinicians working at the same campus, Mr Hunt said, to create “the best children’s cancer centre in the world”.