In memory of Luka

15 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, a day to promote greater awareness and support for families whose lives have been impacted by the loss of a child during pregnancy, at birth or in infancy. Families just like Renee’s.

Make a difference to Butterfly

Like Jess’s, the Butterfly team want to hear from families with lived experience to partner with them and help improve the NICU experience at the RCH. Click here to learn about Jess and Jack’s story and how you can get involved.

Champions for Children: Meet Alice and Lisa

Clinical psychologist, Alice, and Travancore teacher, Lisa, work together to run the In2School program – a wrap around program designed to tackle school avoidance.

Champions for Children: Meet Karen McLean

Meet Karen McLean, Paediatrician and Vulnerable Child Health Lead and our latest Champion for Children. It’s National Child Protection Week so we chatted to Karen about her role and what this week means for her.

Champions for Children: Meet Cate

Wear it Purple Day is annual LGBTQIA+ awareness day to celebrate diversity, especially for young people. Cate Rayner, Co-Director of the RCH Gender service spoke with us about why Wear it Purple Day is important.

Burns Awareness Month: Meet Finn

Finn’s mother, Surini will never forget receiving the phone call from her husband Jeremy, telling her that he was in an ambulance with their six-year-old son Finn on their way to The Royal Children’s Hospital.

A family’s worst nightmare: RSV

Last winter, Shaun and Georgie’s worst nightmare came true. Eve, three, alongside her brother Jack who was just six months, both were admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the RCH with RSV.