The history of the new Adelaide hospital

* June 2007 - Then SA Premier Mike Rann announces a new $1.7 billion hospital, the Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Hospital, to be built on old railway site of North Terrace and replace the existing Royal Adelaide.

* January 2009 - The "Save the RAH" campaign is started and includes a number of senior doctors who want the old hospital retained. They got strong backing from the Liberal opposition.

* February 2009 - Political infighting sees Ms Jackson-Nelson request her name to be taken off the building.

* February 2011 - Work begins clearing the site only to be slowed in December by significant contamination.

* June 2012 - Construction work begins.

* November 2014 - A worker dies after suffering serious head injuries from being crushed by a concrete slab.

* January 2016 - The hospital misses its first official completion date.

* February 2016 - A second worker is killed prompting a walk-off site amid mounting safety concerns and time pressures.

* April 2016 - The hospital misses a second official opening date.

* April 2017 - Premier Jay Weatherill promises the coroner will investigate the death of workers on the project.

* May 2017- The government announces September 5 as the long-awaited opening day for the hospital's emergency department.

* June 2017 - The government signs off on commercial acceptance triggering the start of $1 million a day payments to the development consortium.

* August 2017 - The hospital takes in its first out-patients.