Royal Adelaide Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital located in Adelaide, the capital
city of South Australia. It officially opened in September 2017 with a 3 day move from
the old RAH at the other end of North Terrace. The RAH has a helipad for 2
helicopters, 700 overnight beds, 100 day beds and a 60 bed Intensive Care Unit.
Medical Imaging at the RAH is designed as a “distributed model” meaning services for
outpatients, inpatients, emergency and intensive care patients are on four different
floors. This allows more timely access for patients without the delays often encountered at the old RAH where all patients moved through the one area. Medical Imaging services are run 24/7 with the out of hours component mainly available from the Emergency floor.
The floor opening times are:
Emergency Imaging (Level 2): 24/7
Outpatient Imaging (Level 3): 08:30 – 17:00
Hot Floor CT (Level 4- procedures and ICU): 08:00 - 17:00
Inpatient Imaging (Level 5): 07:00 – 20:00
There are a variety of rostered shifts, with permanent shift radiographers working in 4 shift groups.
There are 7 staff on a PM (afternoon shift); 6 rostered in X-ray and 1 in CT.
At 23:15 when the night shift starts there are 3 radiographers, 1 is a CT operator.
CT and X-ray run 24/7 while MRI, Ultrasound, Angiography and CVIU are all on a call
back basis where the on- call radiographer can be called back in at any time.
The RAH is the major teaching hospital for the University of Adelaide School of
Medicine and for allied health students from the University of South Australia.
The Emergency Department has 65 patient cubicles, and 8 separate resuscitation
areas. The Emergency Department has approximately 75,000 patient attendances per
year; Medical Imaging performs over 130, 000 examinations per year over all modalities.
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is the largest trauma centre for the State of South Australia seeing over 1,500 major trauma cases annually. It is supported by these onsite specialist units:
cardiothoracic
neurosurgical
orthopaedic
burns
spinal injuries
hyperbaric medicine
The Burns, Spinal and Hyperbaric units are the sole referral units for SA and the NT.
the NT.
References and Useful Links:
My Hospitals website: https://www.myhospitals.gov.au/hospital/41CN00019/royal-adelaide-hospital/
SAhealth RAH website