New trials hub for Vic hospitals project

"The north tower ... won't just have 400 beds it will also have a clinical trials centre," he told reporters on Wednesday.

A digital health command centre will also be set up in Parkville to co-ordinate staff and patients, while the university will also build a new health and sciences school.

The hospitals project, billed as the biggest in Australia's history, is expected to cost between $5 billion to $6 billion and be completed by 2034.