The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Transition Support Service has been recognised nationally as setting the benchmark for excellence in healthcare, receiving the inaugural Exemplar Award from the Australian Commission of Safety and Quality Healthcare.
At just 18-months old, little Zoe Reid was diagnosed with retinoblastoma after RCH ophthalmologists discovered a cancerous tumour in her right eye.
As we celebrate International Nurses Day tomorrow, we visited nurses on our Sugar Glider, Cockatoo and Koala wards to find out why they wanted to become nurses.
The RCH has made key information about COVID-19 available in a number of community languages, including Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Punjabi, Hindi and Vietnamese.
May 3 is Wild Koala Day and an important day to recognise the conservation of one of our most iconic Australian animals and their habitat. To mark this this day we visited our own Koala ward to meet six-year-old Ruby.
The home is the most common place for children to be injured, and with kids currently spending more time at home than usual, many parents may be considering how to make their child’s environment as safe as possible.
The RCH has worked with RACV and TAC on a new tag on children’s clothing, helping parents identify when it may be the right time to take their child out of a booster seat.
It’s been another record breaking Good Friday Appeal, raising $18,200,000 for The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)! This was the first time in almost nine decades that the hospital was quiet on Good Friday, and it was the right thing to do.
When Harry Munro started prep this year, it wasn’t the playground or the school books that excited him. It was another child who had a scar just like his.
Not even a day in oncology can stop Maxwell White’s cheeky personality from peeping out.
