Welcome to Royal Perth Hospital

Royal Perth Hospital is Western Australia's premier teaching hospital, providing a full range of emergency services for adults (except obstetrics) and serving as the State referral centre for many super-specialities.

Areas of excellence include interventional neuroradiology, cardiac and lung transplant, burns management, bone marrow transplantation, rehabilitation medicine and trauma services.

Royal Perth Hospital has always been a world-leader in medical technology and research and is the home of respected health care professionals such as our burns surgeon, and the 2005 Australian of the Year, Clinical Professor Fiona Wood.

The Hospital has been home to many significant breakthroughs in medical research - significantly, research into the bacterium Helicobactor pylori, which was found to cause stomach ulcers. This research work won the 2005 Nobel Prize for former staff members Dr Robin Warren and Professor Barry Marshall.

The hospital is divided between two campuses. The larger Wellington Street campus is in the centre of Perth, while the Shenton Park campus is located 6 kilometres away.

The hospital treats about 73,000 in-patients a year, receives about 225,000 outpatient attendances a year, and has one of the busiest Emergency Departments in Australia, with more than 54,000 presentations a year.