Mr Doyle called on the government to "put your money where your hospital is" during a visit to Ballarat yesterday.

"Enough mucking around with this," he said.

"They (the State Government) are going to bring down a budget of $30 billion.

"I think they can probably afford a couple of hundred thousand for the helipad."

But a spokesman for Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said no-one but the Liberal Party wanted the helipad.

"Nobody is asking the government to do this - not the hospital, not the local community, not the rural ambulance service.

"The only people who are asking us to do this are the Liberal Party."

Mr Doyle has pledged $1 million to constructing a helipad at Ballarat Health Services Base Hospital if the Liberal Party wins government at the election.

The pledge came after Ballarat missed out on funding for a helipad in last year's state budget.

Mr Doyle yesterday said any State Government funding to the project should come on top of the hospital's regular budget.

"I'd love to see a capital injection for the helipad at Ballarat Base Hospital, not as part of the hospital's budget but as a separate one-off funding of a helipad for Ballarat Base.

"It must be a one-off capital grant to the Base Hospital to provide the helipad at the accident and emergency entrance there."

Mr Doyle said the helipad was vital for the hospital.

"I've said before, if we were building a facility the size and sophistication of Ballarat Base there is no way in the world that we would build it without a helipad.

"We've got the space for it, I believe we have got the political will for it."

The minister's spokesman said he was unable to comment directly on the budget.

But he said the hospital had investigated the helipad and found it was not feasible while the community was against the development due to amenity issues.

"We have been advised that residents have serious concerns about noise and other issues," he said.

"There are much better ways to spend that money that are going to directly help the people of Ballarat than to build a helipad."