The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is the highly respected, largest paediatric centre in NSW, providing excellent care for children from NSW, Australia and across the Pacific Rim. Each year we have over 25,000 admissions and provide nearly 700,000 appointments through our outpatient services.

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is world renowned for providing the best care for sick children and their families. This specialist care, combined with community education, advocacy for improved child health and ground-breaking research into childhood illnesses, is blended within a positive, caring and healing environment.

Children with problems such as severe burns, major heart conditions, and liver and kidney diseases are referred to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead because it houses leading specialty units within the Hospital grounds.

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is home to the NSW Paediatric Burns Unit, The Paediatric Liver Transplant Unit, The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, the first Paediatric Tumour Bank in the southern hemisphere, the NSW Newborn Screening Service, The Kerry Packer Institute for Child Health Research and the National Poisons Information Centre.

Established in 1880, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is a stand-alone public Hospital and registered charity with 3,000 staff working in 150 departments. Over 50,000 sick children and their families are cared for each year in a family-focused, healing environment.

Funded by the NSW Government, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead provides significant extra services aided by the generosity of individual and corporate donors.

For more information on these services please click on the links below:

The Child Protection Unit

Paediatric Intensive Care

The Oncology Unit

Homelessness - Adolescent Medicine

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