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  • 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).
  • Picture of Future Health Research and Innovation Ros Jones and Dr Jon Spiro
    Outpatients project wins FHRI funding 26 July 2024 It comes as no surprise that our amazing staff here at the Royal Perth Bentley Group (RPBG) pulled off an impressive feat at the recent Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund Innovation Challenge, with two projects receiving grants.
  • Picture of EMHS NAIDOC Week celebration 2024
    Spirit of NAIDOC Week 19 July 2024 Last week we all came together to recognise NAIDOC Week, and it felt truly amazing to see everyone across the Royal Perth Bentley Group (RPBG) actively participate in the many events across both sites.

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  • 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.
  • RPH moving to blue alert 12 August 2022 As announced by the WA Health Minister, due to the continuing decline in COVID-19 cases in the community, Royal Perth Hospital is moving from a red to a blue alert status from Monday, 15 August 2022.
  • Team members from the ICU and Social Work came together for the presentation
    DonateLife plaque encourages Aboriginal organ and tissue donation 10 August 2022 Last week, Royal Perth Hospital’s (RPH) new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was presented with a plaque from DonateLife WA, called “Coming together to learn”.
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Last Updated: 25/02/2022
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