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.