The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEIIMC), commonly known as just QEII, is a medical campus in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia, situated in the suburb of Nedlands directly adjacent to Kings Park. It contains

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) is a teaching hospital in Nedlands, Western Australia. Opened in 1958 as the Perth Chest Hospital and later named in honour of Sir Charles Gairdner, governor of Western Australia from 1951 to 1963, it is pa ...

, the

Perth Children's Hospital Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) is a specialist children's hospital in Nedlands, Western Australia, located at the corner of Winthrop Avenue and Monash Avenue on the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEII) site. It is Western Australia's sp ...

, the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and various smaller facilities. The current QEII site was bought by the state government in 1910, and in 1922 a

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was granted to the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

(UWA). The land remained largely undeveloped, so in 1953 the land was designated for the construction of a new medical centre with a

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at its core. The site was originally known as the Perth Medical Centre, but changed its name in 1977 to commemorate the

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. A 1966 act of parliament created a separate

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to manage the land, with UWA receiving representation on the board.

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* Nedlands, Western Australia 1953 establishments in Australia {{PerthAU-geo-stub