The NSW Government delivered the Prince of Wales Hospital (PoWH) Acute Services Building (ASB) as the first stage of the Randwick Campus Redevelopment. Collaborating with UNSW Sydney, the ASB is the catalyst project for master planned infrastructure transformation of the Randwick Health Campus and for expanding the world-class health, research and education facilities within the
Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct (RHIP).
OVERVIEW
The Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Services Building (ASB) is the first stage of the Randwick Campus Redevelopment, one of the largest Health Infrastructure redevelopments in NSW.
Following construction completion, the ASB opened to the public in early 2023, delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure to support new and innovative approaches to acute healthcare and provide staff with purpose-designed and built facilities that support contemporary clinical practice. Fit out works to deliver additional operating theatres will continue throughout 2025.
The UNSW Integrated Acute Services Building, a 5,000 square metre extension on the eastern façade of the ASB, became operational in mid-2024, seeing research and education spaces integrated with clinical services to deliver accelerated care outcomes for patients. These include laboratories and spaces to support collaboration and the testing and trialling of new models of care and innovative treatments.
The NSW Government is investing $869.822 million in the ASB. This investment includes $82.5 million that was committed in June 2022 for additional ASB fit-out works, including additional operating theatres, an ICU pod and two additional wards. UNSW has invested a further $62.8 million for the extension to the ASB, integrating UNSW health-related education, training and research activities with clinical services.
BENEFITS
The project will:
- Respond to a growing population, increased demand for integrated services and patient-focused models of care for the increasing complex needs of the community
- Expand capacity by replacing and redeveloping aging infrastructure to support delivery of contemporary, responsive models of care
- Provision for up to 156 new beds, enabling up to 388 beds in the new hospital when fully fit-out and operational
- Support new and innovative approaches to acute healthcare and provide staff with purpose-designed and built facilities that support contemporary clinical practice
- Provide state-of-the-art technology for neurosurgery and complex orthopaedics
- Enable clinical innovation and research, biomedical engineering, and clinical translational research laboratories to be co-located directly alongside clinical staff providing acute healthcare services
- Integrate health services with research and education at the precinct to foster a culture of discovery and innovation, and drive the rapid translation of clinically informed research, innovation and education excellence to the bedside, to improve delivery of care to patients at Randwick
- Attract outstanding clinicians, health professionals and academics, drive better healthcare outcomes for patients and generate economic benefits for the community.
SCOPE
The project includes:
- New adult Emergency Department
- New Intensive Care Unit
- New digital operating theatres
- Expanded central sterilising services department
- New psychiatric emergency care centre
- New community assessment unit
- New shared medical imaging department
- Haematology and oncology
- Community Management Centre
- Aged care (acute and rehabilitation)
- Orthopaedics
- Respiratory medicine and infectious diseases
- Neurosciences floor that incorporates an acute stroke unit, neurology and neurosurgical beds and the complex epilepsy service
- New helipad
An additional development (SSD-10339), funded by UNSW, was constructed on the eastern façade of the ASB to facilitate research, education and training spaces and enable clinical innovation, research and biomedical engineering laboratories to be co-located directly alongside clinical staff providing acute healthcare services.
For more information, visit the project website.