Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH)
WebsiteOverview
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH), part of Metro North Health, is Queensland's largest teaching and research hospital, located in Herston, Brisbane. It has close to 1,000 beds and more than 9,000 staff, and provides more than one tenth of all patient services in Queensland.
Its Cancer Care Services cover medical oncology, haematology and bone marrow transplantation, radiation oncology and clinical trials, with 89,425 cancer care visits in 2023.
RBWH is the bone marrow transplant referral centre for all of Queensland and partners with more than 14 Queensland and national universities.
Scale
Beds: close to 1,000 Cancer care visits per year: 89,425 (2023)
Accreditation
Accredited against the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, mandatory for every Australian hospital
Strengths and key treatments
Bone marrow transplantation: the referral centre for all of Queensland, performing autologous and allogeneic (related and unrelated donor) stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
Radiation oncology: TomoTherapy, VMAT, IMRT, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) and brachytherapy for gynaecological and prostate cancers.
Dedicated inpatient units: a haematology and BMT ward with radiation speciality suites, and a ward for solid-tumour patients on chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Medical oncology and clinical trials within a large public academic cancer service.