Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Western Campus | NSW Health and Sydney South West Area Health Service

The $350 million redevelopment of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) was the largest component of the Central Sydney Area Health Service's (now Sydney South West Area Health Service) $550 million Resource Transition Program.  The extensive RPAH campus has three components:  RPAH East, RPAH West and the Institute of Rheumatology and Orthopaedics.

Capital Insight was engaged by NSW Health and South Sydney West Area Health Service to prepare a Masterplan for the Western Campus of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to resolve a series of planning commitments (made when the hospital redevelopment was initially approved), provide facilities for a number of health services, and to guide future developments. It also prepared a development strategy that involved disposal of surplus buildings to fund new facilities for health services, upgrade the urban environment, and resolve traffic and parking issues.

The Masterplan contemplated the establishment of a pedestrian zone linking the RPAH Eastern Campus and the University of Sydney, to University and Hospital functions to the west. Staff and visitor carparking will be constrained to the southern and western parts of the site.

The development strategy involved the refurbishment or creation of residential, commercial, child care, retail and health services buildings in a planned urban environment that will be both a thoroughfare and a destination in its own right. The strategy also provided a positive return to the Hospital in addition to over 30,000 square metres of new facilities for drug health, sexual health, child care, affordable accommodation and renal dialysis services.