The Randwick Hospitals Campus has had teaching affiliations with UNSW Sydney for nearly 60 years. The Acute Services Building (ASB) provides the opportunity to further leverage this long-standing partnership by providing a physical and working integration between the Hospital and UNSW.
In an integrated extension of the Prince of Wales Hospital ASB, UNSW Sydney houses state-of-the-art research, clinical innovation, biomedical and teaching facilities across 10 floors, embedding research, education and training initiatives with clinical activities. This co-location strengthens links between clinicians and researchers to provide important insights into current healthcare practice that will lead to learning and advancement in the way healthcare is delivered.
Construction of the 5,000 square metre extension on the eastern facade of the ASB was completed in early 2023, with fit out activities continuing until mid-2024 in preparation for the spaces becoming operational soon after.
Known as the UNSW Integrated Acute Services Building, facilities within the UNSW extension to the ASB broadly include:
The spaces align with work happening at the hospital, maximising the benefits of co-location to improve health outcomes for our community.
The ground floor is home to a Clinical Research & Innovation Facility (CRIF) and be home to outpatient research, clinical trials and multidisciplinary team space. Initially the space will pilot a National Comprehensive Dementia Care facility.
Across from the hospital’s first floor operating theatres, IASB space prioritises medical technology ideation, bio-printing, rapid prototyping and testing laboratories.
On the second floor and near the hospital’s Central Sterile Supply Department, UNSW has space for clinical prototyping: co-design for implants, prosthetics, orthotics, devices, surgical robotics computational modelling. It includes a sample preparation laboratory for specimen reception and distribution, molecular, processing, short-term cryostorage.
The intensive care unit and medical assessment unit on level three links to UNSW’s data visualisation spaces, a connected health floor with co-working zones for data interfacing with hospital medical assessment unit.
Another PC2 laboratory on level four maximises links with the hospital’s haematology, oncology and sub-acute aged care units. It has shared services for clinical research as well as a haematology translational research space and high-end analytics lab for cell therapy and clinical trials for haematology and oncology patients.
On levels five through eight, UNSW has dedicated clinical education and research zones to encourage collaboration and learning. These spaces correspond to the hospital’s aged care and orthogeriatric, surgery, respiratory and spinal, stroke and clinical neurosciences units.
On level eight, UNSW has another secure research laboratory that can be used for future infectious disease research.
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On 18 December 2019, the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) approved the State Significant Development application (SSD-10339) for the UNSW Addition to the Integrated Acute Services Building, the first expansion of the Prince of Wales Hospital.