Randwick Campus Redevelopment

The $658 million Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre will be delivered as one project in a single facility.  It will bring world-leading clinical care, research and education together under one roof to transform children's health.

This project is a team effort between our partners, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, the Children’s Cancer Institute, and UNSW Sydney. We are working together to make sure children get the best care possible. 

Find out about the services included in the new building.

How we involved the community

The facilities have been designed with children and families in mind. More than 2,000 children, parents, carers, and staff shared their ideas to help make it a welcoming and comfortable place. Using their extensive feedback, we have designed places and spaces that will feel more like a home, promote health and wellness, family togetherness and patient-centered care.

The new building will be safe and welcoming for the whole community. There will also be a dedicated gathering space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families within the main entrance level.

Delivering the project

The funding for this new hospital comes from different sources:

• $478 million from the NSW Government
• $100 million from the Commonwealth Government
• $25 million from the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation
• $25 million from the Children’s Cancer Institute
• $30 million in-kind contribution from UNSW Sydney for the Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre
• $50 million in donations, including $15 million from the Minderoo Foundation, the naming rights partner to the Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

The NSW Government has invested more than $1 billion in the Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct, strengthening health, research, education and innovation outcomes to ensure NSW is at the forefront of health research and education internationally.

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The NSW and Federal Governments are working with the Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (including the Kids Cancer Centre), and UNSW Sydney to create Australia’s first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

For almost 40 years, the Children’s Cancer Institute and Kids Cancer Centre have worked together to turn scientific discoveries into real treatments for children at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.

By bringing scientists, clinicians, and educators together in one place, the new centre will speed up cancer research and improve treatments for kids.

The centre will include:

• state-of-the-art wet and dry laboratory spaces
• spaces for education, training, and research
• comfortable retreat areas for patients and families
• new oncology inpatient units
• a new day oncology unit.

A team effort to fight childhood cancer

Professor Michelle Haber AM (Children’s Cancer Institute) and Dr Richard Mitchell (Kids Cancer Centre) will lead the new Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre. Their team will focus on using the latest research to improve cancer treatments for children.

By working with top cancer centres in Australia and around the world, the centre will help advance cancer care everywhere. The knowledge gained will also help with other childhood diseases.

Learn more about the Minderoo Children's Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

A range of Prince of Wales Hospital services and inpatient units have now relocated to the new Acute Services Building, including the Adult Emergency Department.

The Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Services Building (ASB) was the first step in redeveloping the Randwick Campus. In partnership with UNSW Sydney, this project was the starting point for transforming the Randwick Health Campus and expanding world-class health, research, and education facilities within the Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct.

The new Prince of Wales Hospital ASB includes:

• an expanded adult Emergency Department
• an expanded Intensive Care Unit
• a new digital operating theatres equipped with state-of-the-art technology
• a new shared medical imaging department
• a new and expanded Central Sterilizing Services Department
• a new helipad servicing the Randwick Hospitals Campus (operational from late 2025)
• an expanded Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre
• a new Community Assessment Unit
• Community Management Centre
• Replacement of existing inpatient wards and provision of additional inpatient beds providing contemporary facilities for the following specialties:
  • haematology and oncology
  • aged care (acute and rehabilitation)
  • orthopaedics
  • general surgery and specialty surgery
  • respiratory and infectious diseases
  • clinical neurosciences floor that will incorporate an expanded Acute Stroke Unit, neurology and neurosurgical beds and the Complex Epilepsy Service
  • research, education and training spaces, including additional spaces funded by UNSW Sydney, to enable clinical innovation and research, biomedical engineering, and clinical translational research laboratories co-located directly alongside clinical staff providing acute healthcare services.

The ASB is the first major upgrade to the Prince of Wales Hospital in 25 years, delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure that will support new and innovative approaches to acute healthcare and provide staff with purpose-designed and built facilities that support contemporary clinical practice.

Health-related academic and translational research spaces will be co-located with clinical services. These include laboratories and spaces to support collaboration and the testing and trialing of new models of care and innovative treatments.

Enhancing the patient experience 

The new and improved facilities, along with innovative healthcare approaches, put patients at the heart of care by:

• Upgrading services and technology to provide modern, high-quality treatment.
• Connecting healthcare with education and research to bring new discoveries quickly to patients.
• Creating a calm environment with clear directions and easy access to services.
• Supporting wellbeing with safe, green, and open spaces that link to indoor areas.

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The NSW Government is partnering with UNSW Sydney to strengthen the Randwick Hospitals Campus through the integration of health education, training and research with acute healthcare services.

The UNSW Integrated Acute Services Building (IASB) is an extension of the Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Service Building (ASB). It brings together research, medical innovation, teaching, and healthcare in one place across 10 floors. This setup allows doctors and researchers to work closely together, improving medical knowledge and leading to better healthcare practices.

New facilities include:

• research and collaboration spaces
• clinical research spaces
• clinical innovation and translation spaces
• clinical translational laboratories (PC2 and PC3)
• biomedical engineering innovation spaces.

Learn more about the UNSW Integrated Acute Services Building.

The UNSW Health Translation Hub (HTH) will bring together educational and medical researchers, clinicians, educators, students, industry partners and public health staff to drive excellence in innovation.

Currently under construction, the HTH is set to be complete in 2025 and will include:

• Purpose-built spaces for researchers, educators, students and industry partners to work alongside clinicians.
• Education, training and research rooms.
• Clinical schools.
• Ambulatory care clinics.
• Support facilities including retail premises.
• More than 2,500 square metres of publicly accessible open space for staff, students, patients and the community.

Learn more about the UNSW Health Translation Hub.

The Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct brings together world-class education, research and healthcare organisations to address real-world problems across the lifespan, from newborns to centennials.

The Precinct is creating an integrated environment that expands and enhances our capability as a world-leading university, clinical health and business innovation cluster, in a permeable community space where people work, study and live.

Learn more about the Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct.

The Randwick Hospitals Campus operates in a dynamic environment. Over the past 20 years, we have seen the volume, complexity and range of health services delivered at our hospitals continue to grow.

The campus is now operating close to capacity and around 60 per cent of infrastructure is over 30 years old. Without this investment, our hospitals would be unable to meet future demand or respond to the increasing complexity of health care needs.

The redevelopment will expand capacity by replacing and redeveloping this ageing infrastructure and supporting delivery of contemporary, responsive models of care; positioning the campus to continue to respond to the needs of our community now and into the future.

The first stage of the Randwick Campus Redevelopment, the new Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Services Building, opened in early 2023.

Subsequent stages of the redevelopment, including the Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre project, are progressing through design, procurement and construction phases, with construction completion expected in 2025, followed shortly after by the adjacent UNSW Sydney’s Health Translation Hub.

The Randwick Campus Redevelopment is located on land bounded by Hospital Road and Botany, High and Magill Streets in Randwick. This land sits between the current Randwick Hospitals Campus and UNSW Sydney and required the acquisition of 92 properties by the NSW Government.

The NSW Government also acquired Eurimbla Avenue from Randwick City Council.

There are no plans to acquire additional properties.

The construction and operation of major public infrastructure such as hospitals, ports and railways occurs through a statutory planning process known as a ‘State Significant Development’ (SSD) application. The SSD application is submitted to the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) for assessment.

Each major facility to be delivered under the Randwick Campus Redevelopment is subject to the statutory planning process and was approved by DPIE before major works commenced.

You can access DPIE approvals and related documents in our document library.

Construction Traffic and Pedestrian Management plans are developed in consultation with key stakeholders and traffic management consultants. These plans are tailored to manage the potential impacts of specific activities and to ensure construction works are undertaken in a way that:

• maintains the safety of pedestrians and all road users at all times
• minimises disruptions to surrounding pedestrian and traffic routes
• ensures emergency, logistics and general access at all times
• communicates proposed changes ahead of implementation.