{"entity":{"id":"royal-prince-alfred-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Royal Prince Alfred Hospital","aka":["RPA","RPA Hospital"],"tldr":"A public hospital in Camperdown, Sydney, run by the Sydney Local Health District of New South Wales Health. Its pathology department tests tissue samples to diagnose cancer, beside the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital.","summary":"Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is a public hospital of the Sydney Local Health District in New South Wales. A New South Wales Health release of March 2024 describes the Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology Department opened at the hospital as part of its 940 million dollar redevelopment, bringing anatomical pathology and cytology together closer to the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse to speed urgent testing of samples from cancer patients; the department processed over 48,000 patient samples for cancer diagnostic tests in 2023. The redevelopment, due for completion in 2028, also expands the emergency department, intensive care, inpatient wards and interventional and imaging services. The hospital's own pages did not answer when OnCo tried them, so its other cancer services are not listed here. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 136.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney Local Health District)","url":"https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/rpa"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 136 (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"NSW Health: Tissue Pathology laboratory and Diagnostic Oncology Department opens at RPA (March 2024)","url":"https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20240318_01.aspx"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["chris-obrien-lifehouse"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Camperdown","country":"AU","lat":-33.889,"lng":151.183,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/rpa","newsweekOncology2026":136,"programs":["Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology Department"]},"route":"/institutions/royal-prince-alfred-hospital/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"chris-obrien-lifehouse","kind":"institution","name":"Chris O'Brien Lifehouse","route":"/institutions/chris-obrien-lifehouse/"}],"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}