Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital is steeped in history, with a legacy of nursing and medical firsts to its credit and having paved the way in many clinical areas - both nationally and internationally.

Sydney Hospital is Australia's first hospital and dates from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.

The Sydney Eye Hospital started at Miller’s Point in 1882 and moved to another site Woolloomooloo in 1922, until finally joining the Sydney Hospital campus in 1996.

The Sydney Eye Hospital is a quaternary referral unit, providing surgical and medical management of vitreo-retinal, corneal, glaucoma, oculo-plastic and oculo-oncology conditions.

Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital functions as one hospital and is co-located on the site of Macquarie Street in Sydney's central business district.

The Hospital includes ground floor emergency with eye hospital outpatients, two levels of clinical wards and an operating theatre on the top floor as well as an eight level car park.

Sydney Hospital has a dedicated hand unit and is a tertiary referral centre for hand trauma, abnormalities and diseases.

The Hospital also incorporates the Kirketon Road Centre and Sydney Sexual Health Centre which provide sexual health, drug and alcohol, HIV/AIDS and an AIDS psychiatry services.

Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital has become a centre of excellence in the areas of eye, hand and sexual health as well as specialist alcohol and other drug treatment services, including such clinical areas as the Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney Hospital Hand Clinic, Sydney Sexual Health Centre and Kirketon Road Centre.

Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospitals' modern facilities and professional staff provide a strong blend of general and specialist medical services for the public.