Aerial photo shows how St George Hospital is being transformed

The photo also shows, while most of the hospital has been modernised, there is still a component dating back to the 1930s.

The nine-storey high acute services building, surrounded by scaffolding, is in the foreground of the photo.

At ground level is the new emergency department, which opened in 2014.

Above it are seven levels of critical care units, operating theatres and other services, and a helicopter landing site is on level nine.

The new, elevated helipad can be seen at top left of the photo.

It will replace the existing helipad, marked with a cross, at right of photo.,

The old section of the hospital, an elongated, brown brick and red tile building, is at the rear.

The left-hand side of the building is James H Laws House, which was the old nurses’ quarters, and is now used largely for administration.

It was opened in 1937 by Bertram Stevens, who was NSW Premier from 1932-1939. He was later knighted.

The building was named after the hospital’s chairman James Law.

The right hand side of the old brown brick building, the Pritchard Wing, was added at a later date.

Alice Pritchard was a former St George Hospital matron who gave nearly 30 years of service to the  hospital.

The Pritchard Wing is still used for outpatient services and includes a wide range of clinics including, sexual health, paediatrics, ante-natal, gynaecology, renal and genetics.

Women’s and childrens’ health services, genetic counselling and diabetes education are among other roles performed in the Pritchard Wing.

Early this year, the chair of the medical staff council, Associate Professor Theresa Jacques said the state government should begin planning to replace these old facilities, as well as several demountable buildings, which are also used for clinical purposes.

Dr Jacques said some of the $30 million saved by accelerating stage two of the redevelopment, the clinical services building, should be used to start planning stage three.