Some doctors at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) may participate in protected industrial action on Thursday, October 1, 2026, involving a four-hour stop-work period from 1.30pm to 5.29pm.<\/p>\n
Our teams are working closely together to ensure patients and families continue to receive safe, high-quality care.<\/p>\n
At this stage, we expect most appointments and planned surgeries to proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n
If you have an appointment with Specialist Clinics<\/strong><\/p>\n If your appointment is affected, we will contact you directly.<\/p>\n If you have any questions, please contact Specialist Clinics on 9345 6180<\/strong> between 8.30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.<\/p>\n You can also reschedule your appointment online via the Specialist Clinics change of appointment form<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have surgery<\/strong><\/p>\n We currently expect most planned surgeries to proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n If changes are required, we will contact affected patients and families directly.<\/p>\n For questions about planned surgery, please contact the RCH Planned Surgery Unit on 9345 6182<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Thank you for your patience and understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some doctors at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) may participate in protected industrial action on Thursday, October 1, 2026, involving a four-hour stop-work period from 1.30pm to 5.29pm. Our teams are working closely together to ensure patients and families continue to receive safe, high-quality care. At this stage, we expect most appointments and planned surgeries … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7065,"featured_media":10811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}