Royal Adelaide Hospital ranked with world's best for orthopaedics and in Australia's top 15 by Newsweek-Statistica
The Royal Adelaide Hospital, opened in its second version at the western end of North Terrace, Adelaide, in 2017, has featured in the Newsweek-Statistic ratings of hospitals around the world since 2021.
Royal Adelaide Hospital was 36th in the 2024 ranking of the world’s top specialist hospitals for its orthopaedics and trauma department and placed 14th in the list of top Australian hospitals. Its endocrinology department was placed 119th in the world in 2024, up from 135 in 2023.
The annual rankings were made by global research firm Statista and Newsweek magazine from a survey of more than 40,000 medical professionals. Patient experience surveys also contributes to 15% of the score.
The Royal Adelaide Hospital was part of Central Adelaide Local Health Network whose chief executive professor Lesley Dwyer.said achievements that contributed to the improvement in rankings included a world-first human study to develop an alternative site for islet cell transplantation outside of the liver. Another was the use of a revolutionary artificial skin-like template to treat complicated diabetic foot wounds – something that could save hundreds of patients a year from foot amputations. Central Adelaide Local Health Network also became the first health network in Australia to introduce a tailored professional behaviours model for its workforce.
Ranged alongside Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and Charite, Berlin, in the world’s best, the Royal Adelaide Hospital orthopaedics and trauma department specialised in complex joint reconstruction and joint replacement, major trauma, spinal injuries, as well as a wide range of orthopaedic subspecialties. The clinic treated an average of 4,000-5,000 patients each year.
Central Adelaide Local Health Network head of orthopaedics and trauma, professor Bogdan Solomon, said critical to its success had been integrating the department with the discipline of orthopaedics and trauma at Adelaide University, with academic surgeons and scientists across the hospital and university “ensuring clinical orthopaedics is inseparable from research, teaching and quality improvement.”
