Key events - 1975 to now
1975 |
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The controversial decision to establish a Pregnancy Advisory Service is made. |
1976 |
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4 October |
Statewide Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (NETS) is established and based at the hospital. |
1979 |
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17 October |
First woman gives birth in the hospital's Family Birth Centre. |
1980 |
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23 June |
Australia’s first ‘test tube baby’, Candice Reed, is born at the Royal Women’s Hospital. |
10 December |
Professorial Unit in Obstetrics and Gynaecology opened by the Minister of Health. |
1984 - 1986 |
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Industrial unrest including participation in the Victorian nurses’ strike lasting 50 days. |
1986 |
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Program established to provide assistance to pregnant women with an identified alcohol or drug dependency. |
1987 |
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19 June |
The hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) opens in a terrace house in Cardigan Street, Carlton. |
1988 |
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1 February |
Management of the private wing of the hospital, Frances Perry House, is contracted to Mayne Health for 20 years. |
1989 |
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Evening antenatal clinic established to cater for working women. |
1991 |
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The hospital's Department of Anaesthesia initiates an Acute Pain Service. |
1992 |
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Department of Perinatal Medicine established. |
1993 |
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Casemix funding system introduced to Victorian public hospitals. |
1993 - 1994 |
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Transfer from hospital-based to tertiary training of midwives. The last group of midwives, trained at the Royal Women’s Hospital, graduates in November 1993. The hospital collaborates with La Trobe University in offering a one year Graduate Diploma in Midwifery. |
1995 |
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Development of the hospital's Well Women’s service. The Women’s first capital campaign raises $1.6 Million matched by the then State Government to build a 22 bed oncology unit. |
1 August |
Formation of the Women’s and Children’s Health Care Network, incorporating the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital. |
1997 |
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February |
The hospital's Family Accommodation Service commences. |
29 April |
35 babies born during the day - a new record for the most babies born in a 24 hour period. |
1998 |
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The hospital's Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP) is established. |