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  • At ceremonies held across Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) and Bentley Health Service (BHS) recently, staff were recognised for reaching the remarkable milestones of 20, 30 and 40 years of service.
    Royal Perth Bentley Group celebrates long-serving staff 25 September 2025 The Royal Perth Bentley Group has paid tribute to its long-serving staff – people whose careers have spanned global disasters, medical breakthroughs and the evolution of our health system over the past four decades.
  • Refurbished Ward 2K to enhance comfort and healing
    Refurbished Ward 2K to enhance comfort and healing 13 August 2025 The recent reopening of Ward 2K, our dedicated voluntary mental health unit, marks a new era in patient-centred mental health care delivery at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) and East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS).
  • Co Naming RPH Hospital
    Royal Perth Hospital reveals new co-name during NAIDOC Week 08 July 2025 After an extensive consultation period with local Aboriginal elders, Walbirring Karlup – meaning Healing Place or Place That Brings Good Health – was agreed upon as the approved co-name for RPH.
  • Trifecta for RPH Fitness Team
    Trifecta for RPH fitness team 26 June 2025 A fitness team from Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) has scored the trifecta by winning the Corporate Cup in the Busselton Festival of Triathlon for the third consecutive time.
  • BeST of the best to manage workplace aggression
    BeST of the best to manage workplace aggression 29 April 2025 East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) has welcomed eight new staff members who will make up our organisation’s inaugural Behaviour Support Team (BeST).

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  • Picture of Curtin nursing partnership
    Curtin-EMHS pathway key to growing nursing numbers 08 May 2024 A new collaborative pathway between East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) and Curtin University will see 15 nursing students undertake part of their clinical rotations across Royal Perth Hospital (RPH), Bentley Health Service (BHS) and Armadale Health Service (AHS).
  • Picture of Orla Lagan-Brown (centre) with Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson (left) and EMHS Board Member Vanessa Elliott.
    Graduate Transition Program helps RN thrive 17 April 2024 March 26 was a special day for Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) Registered Nurse (RN) Orla Lagan-Brown. That afternoon, she met with Minister for Health Amber-Jade Sanderson and East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) Board Member Vanessa Elliott, who is also an inaugural member of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame
  • Photograph of Professor John Papadimitriou who worked on the microscope and was visiting the TEM exhibit.
    Museum celebrates RPH role in HIV research race 17 April 2023 A very special exhibit has opened at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) Museum – one that encapsulates the primary role played by the hospital in the discovery of HIV in human tissue. As part of the Boorloo Heritage Festival which ran over the weekend of April 15th, the RPH Museum showcased the transmission electron microscope (TEM), which remains in its original position since it was first commissioned in 1980 at the old hospital building. It was using this microscope that Dr John Armstrong and Mr Robert Home of the RPH Department of Anatomical Pathology along with their dedicated team won the global race to demonstrate the presence of virus particles in patients with HIV infection. Dr Armstrong captured the first image of the virus particles in human tissue, something which ultimately shaped the way AIDS was treated and diagnosed across the world. Dr Armstrong made the landmark disco...
  • RPH Trauma Surgeon Dr Sudhakar Rao, Service Registrar (General Surgery) Dr Kirsten Biddle, ED Physician Dr Jenny Vance and A/State Trauma Service Director Dr Stephen Dunjey.
    WA State Trauma Conference brings together the best in trauma care 30 November 2022 The WA State Trauma Conference took place this month, with more than 200 delegates streaming into The Westin from Friday to attend a range of insightful workshops, presentations and networking sessions.
  • Photograph of Gerald Watts holding 2 microphones
    Congratulations to Professor Gerald Watts 19 August 2022 Professor Gerald Watts has won Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand's prestigious research award the R T Hall Prize.
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Last Updated: 25/02/2022
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