About: Helping children and young people live their healthiest lives possible.
Each year our services manage:
- 51,000 inpatient admissions
- 92,000 Emergency Department presentations
- Over one million outpatient service visits
Our vision and mission:
The formation of the Network in 2010 was a significant milestone for paediatric services in NSW. The Network’s leadership group has established a solid corporate and strategic platform to enhance clinical care, further groundbreaking research, invest in education and training of the health workforce and advocate for a healthy future for children in NSW and beyond.
Our team, more than 5,000 staff across the Network, is committed to providing world-class paediatric health care in a family-focused, healing environment. Sick children have access to the best facilities, with speciality care available for children with conditions such as cancer, heart problems, severe burns, HIV/AIDS and children needing organ, bone marrow or cord blood transplants. Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has adopted the following purpose, mission and values to guide us in providing the best care for sick children and their families.
- Purpose: helping children and young peoplelive their healthiest lives possible.
- Mission: Working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of children through clinical care, research, education and advocacy
- Values: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment
Achievements: A pioneering role in adolescent healthcare for 40 years is worth celebrating! Back when The Children’s Hospital at Westmead was at Camperdown, Prof David Bennett was key in opening the first hospital based adolescent medical unit in 1977. The Youth Arts Program was introduced in 1984, with visual artists working with young people in hospital.
Since then, there have been many milestones.in developing a comprehensive, integrated and creative model of care, linking inpatient, outpatient and community based services for young people. “We have taken a holistic, family centred approach,” said Prof. Bennett. . Today, there are many services for young people, often in partnerships with other departments and organisations.
Senior staff in the unit have been influential in young people’s health, both nationally and globally, in research, policy and advocacy. Prof.Kate Steinbeck was appointed as the inaugural Chair of Adolescent Medicine in 2010, ,and this year recived NHMRC funding to establish a Centre of Excellence in Adolescent Health Research focusing on making health services work for adolescents in the digital age.
Address: Research Building, The Children’s Hospital
Westmead, Australia
Phone: +61-2-9845 3031
Web Site: http://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au
