Royal Prince Alfred Hospital dialysis from the 1960s to the 2000s

The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) renal unit opened in 1965 with the first haemodialysis performed in June 1967.The first home training patient was undertaken in 1971. Peritoneal dialysis began in the 1960s for patients with acute renal failure or those patients with chronic renal failure but no access. The first patient to learn continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis was in 1978 with nine patients trained in the first year. In 1994 the RPA Renal Unit combined with the Concord Renal Unit to become the Statewide Renal Service (SRS) and in 2009 is the third largest renal service in Australia.