Prince of Wales Hospital ASB construction completes

Major construction of the $782.8 million Acute Services Building (ASB) at Prince of Wales Hospital has completed.

Premier Dominic Perrottet, Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton toured the new building, due to open to patients early next year.

The building is the first major upgrade to the hospital in 25 years. The facility, Hazzard said, will support new and innovative approaches to acute health care and provide staff with purpose-designed treatment spaces.

“Patients in the Randwick area will have access to the very latest diagnostic tests and trials of new treatments in incredibly modern facilities.”

The $782.8 million Acute Services Building will also enable health-related academic and translational research spaces to be co-located with clinical services, and includes an investment by UNSW Sydney to provide an additional 5000 m² extension across Hospital Road, currently under construction.

The 2022–23 NSW Budget committed an extra $82.5 million to the project, bringing the total investment in the Acute Services Building to $865.3 million.

This will enable fit-out of more operating theatres and associated recovery spaces, an additional intensive care unit pod and inpatient areas, due for completion in 2024.

The new building includes a new and expanded:

• adult emergency department
• intensive care unit
• central sterilising services department
• psychiatric emergency care centre

along with:

• new digital operating theatres equipped with state-of-the-art technology
• a new helipad servicing the Randwick Hospitals Campus
• a new community assessment unit
• a new community management centre.
   

The building will also provide expansive new inpatient wards to replace existing ones, including: haematology and oncology; aged care (acute and rehabilitation); orthopaedics; respiratory and infectious diseases; and clinical neurosciences, incorporating an expanded acute stroke unit, neurology and neurosurgical beds and the complex epilepsy service.

Upton said the project has generated more than 2000 jobs across construction and related industries.

“The Eastern Suburbs will soon have an incredible acute care building that will service our local community for many years to come and give hardworking health staff a facility they can be very proud of,” Upton said.

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