An essential component of this plan is the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, which will provide South Australia with the most advanced hospital in Australia.
Complementing the provision of GP Plus Health Care Centres, this new hospital will be progressed as a high priority, so that it is ready to meet demand for complex hospital care.
The design of the new hospital will allow clinicians to explore alternative models of care using world’s best practice experiences.
The new hospital will:
- Be the most modern hospital in Australia, optimising technology and efficiency of service delivery.
- Be the central core of South Australia’s four major hospitals.
- Incorporate all the current services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) and some complex services currently provided at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
- Provide a modern working environment that encourages staff collegiality and the attraction and retention of staff.
- Provide facilities that allow clinicians to maximise teaching and research opportunities.
The hospital will be central to major rail, tram, and road services, becoming a medical hub for all South Australians – city and country.
Services to be provided include:
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Critical care services
- Emergency department
- Trauma
- Intensive care
- Hyperbaric medicine
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Diagnostic services
- Medical imaging/CT/MRI
- Pathology
- Nuclear medicine
- Endoscopy
- Angiography
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Statewide services
- Burns
- Cystic fibrosis for adults
- Infectious diseases
- Renal transplant
- Major trauma
- Hyperbaric
- Spinal
- Radiation oncology
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Medical & surgical services, including
- Cardiology/cardiothoracic
- Neurosurgery
- Vascular
- Respiratory
- Haematology, including stem cell transplant
- Colorectal
- Orthopaedic
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| Mental health and drug & alcohol |
Ambulatory care |
| Researching |
Teaching |
The current RAH will continue to function until the new hospital is completed.
This construction has been comprehensively costed against rebuilding the current RAH. The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will cost $1.7 billion and will be open within eight years. This is also a larger site capable of expansion and will cause minimal disruption to clinicians and patients. In comparison, to ensure that the current RAH site meets current building codes and provides a modern service to patients, the cost would be $1.4 billion and would take 15 years to complete. There would also be significant disruption to the running of the current RAH site over that time.
For the city of Adelaide, the new hospital will:
- Achieve remediation of a contaminated site.
- Improve access to the River Torrens.
- Complete the North Terrace upgrade with new cultural and open spaces.
- Comprise world-leading green building design to achieve the highest environmental performance in water and energy efficiency.
- Improve community access via tram and train access to the new hospital.
| $1.7 billion will be spent building the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. | |