Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | NSW Health and Sydney South West AHS

The $350 million redevelopment of Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital campus represented the largest component of the Sydney South West Area Health Services $550 million Resource Transition Program.

As Program Director, Project Director and Project Manager, Capital Insight played an integral part in the planning and design of the various projects, and worked closely with the Area Health Service to develop the operational strategies that parallel the redevelopment.

The redevelopment of the historic eastern campus involved the construction of a new hi-tech clinical building providing over 600 beds, 22 operating theatres, neonatal intensive care unit, intensive care unit and high dependency unit, enabling the collocation of complementary surgical, diagnostic, clinical, and administrative functions, as well as providing laboratory services and women’s and children’s services.

The $30 million Stage 2 provides a further 13,000 square metres expansion of the eastern campus and provides accommodation for admissions, perioperative and day stay services, biochemistry and microbiological services, and anatomical pathology services. Stage 2 also includes major refurbishment of the heritage listed Victoria Building (1901) and Fairfax Building (1943).

The west campus has seen the transformation of the King George V building from a maternity hospital to an administrative and community service facility, an expanded radiation oncology service, together with public and staff car parking.

The Institute of Rheumatology and Orthopaedics has been designed as a stand-alone facility providing state-of-the-art facilities and complementary services, whilst maintaining a close proximity to Sydney’s premier teaching hospital.

Other services and facilities included in the redevelopment works at RPA include:

• cancer services

• melanoma unit

• national liver transplant unit

• PET and MRI suite

• paediatric services

• an education centre.