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| The controversial decision to establish a Pregnancy Advisory Service is made.
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| Statewide Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (NETS) is established and based at the hospital.
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| First woman gives birth in the hospital's Family Birth Centre.
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| Australia’s first ‘test tube baby’, Candice Reed, is born at the Royal Women’s Hospital.
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| Industrial unrest including participation in the Victorian nurses’ strike lasting 50 days.
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| Program established to provide assistance to pregnant women with an identified alcohol or drug dependency.
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| The hospital's Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) opens in a terrace house in Cardigan Street, Carlton.
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| Management of the private wing of the hospital, Frances Perry House, is contracted to Mayne Health for 20 years.
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| Evening antenatal clinic established to cater for working women.
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| First patient representative appointed.
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| The hospital's Department of Anaesthesia initiates an Acute Pain Service.
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| Opening of clinic catering for pregnant teenagers.
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| Department of Perinatal Medicine established.
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| Casemix funding system introduced to Victorian public hospitals.
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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.
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| Development of the hospital's Well Women’s service.
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| The Royal Women’s Hospital becomes the first public hospital in Australia to be accredited as a Baby Friendly Hospital by UNICEF/WHO.
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| Formation of the Women’s and Children’s Health Care Network, incorporating the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital.
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| The hospital's Family Accommodation Service commences.
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| A Multiple Pregnancy Clinic is established.
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| 35 babies born during the day - a new record for the most babies born in a 24 hour period.
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| The hospital's Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP) is established.
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| Publication of Dr Janet McCalman's social history of the Royal Women's Hospital, titled 'Sex and Suffering'.
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| Victorian Premier Steve Bracks announces plans to rebuild the Royal Women’s Hospital.
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| Women’s and Children’s Health Care Network is disaggregated and the Royal Women’s Hospital is again established as an independent health service with its own Board of Directors.
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| Establishment of the hospital's Clinical Practice Improvement Unit (CPIU).
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| Construction begins on the new $250 million Royal Women’s Hospital in Parkville.
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| Ms Dale Fisher is the first woman appointed to the position of Chief Executive in the hospital's 149 year history.
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| Launch of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health, supported by Government funding and $2.5 million donation from the Pratt Foundation.
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| Victorian Premier Steve Bracks launches the Royal Women's Hospital 150th celebrations
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