rpa hospital

Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital is one of Australia’s premier hospitals. It is recognised as a pioneer in patient care – and is a world leader in healthcare excellence, research and innovation. In addition, it is home to the state’s first virtual hospital rpavirtual and it is the principal teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.

RPA is part of a network of hospitals managed by Sydney Local Health District. The network includes Concord, Canterbury, Balmain and Sydney Dental Hospitals, The Professor Marie Bashir Mental Health Facility (on the campus of RPA), Concord Centre for Mental Health and a range of other health services offered on campus and in the community.

RPA offers the most comprehensive range and most complex clinical care of any principal referral hospital in NSW. As a principal referral hospital, RPA provides tertiary and quaternary referral and acute services to the 740,000 people who live within the boundaries of Sydney Local Health District, more than 1 million people who come into the District each day to work, study and visit, as well as to other metropolitan residents, rural, interstate and overseas patients.

Since its foundation in 1882, RPA has been a respected provider of healthcare, maintaining the philosophy that our doors are always open to those who need our help. It has a long history of providing care to some of the most vulnerable people in our community, besides working in partnership with the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern and the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council and its local Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities.