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Our Children's Emergency Department has moved from High Street to Botany Street and is now open to the public!
Bright, modern, and spacious, the new Children's ED offers patients and families greater privacy and bigger single rooms along with a new short stay unit.
The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is always on the look out for dedicated and passionate health professionals to join our wonderful team. Head to the links in the comments for more information on our vacancies.
25/11/2025
What should you do with unfinished prescribed antibiotics?
It's tempting to keep leftover antibiotics for next time but reusing them can be unsafe and ineffective.
If you've unfinished antibiotics, make sure you return them to your pharmacy for safe disposal.
Don't share antibiotics. Your infection can be different to someone else's.
24/11/2025
Ben, 16, opens up about life with autism, navigating social anxiety, and learning what helps him feel happier. Clinical Psychologist Stella Li shares practical tips for supporting young people with autism in this honest MindChat episode.
Listen now on your favourite platform.
21/11/2025
Some wiggly magic from behind the scenes with The Wiggles 🎬
Step behind the camera as we wiggle our way through the new hospital building, including our new ED which is now located on Botany Street.
20/11/2025
At home, treatments can often be driven by misconceptions. A common misconception when treating infections is that the stronger the antibiotic, the better.
The reality is that the best antibiotic is one most targeted to your infection. "Stronger" drugs can lead to more side effects and antimicrobial resistance.
🦠What is antimicrobial resistance? 🔍
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, infections, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics. This can lead to the spread of drug-resistant infections, which are harder to treat, increasing the risk of severe illness and death.
What's the best thing you can do?
Speak to a health expert and use the right antibiotic in the right dose, at the right time.
20/11/2025
We bid our old wards a bittersweet goodbye this week as hospital staff busily packed away to make a fresh start in our new building at the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. Patients and families were given a warm welcome to the fresh, modern wards in the new building.
The following services and wards have moved from Building C to Building B (new building):
- Children's Emergency has moved to Level B1, accessible via Botany St
- Children's Intensive Care Unit (C1 West) has moved to Level 1
- General Medical/Isolation Unit (C3 West) has moved to Level 3
- Oncology Inpatient Unit (C2 West) has moved to Level 6
- Adolescent Unit (C3 South) and Cardiac, Renal and Surgical Infants Unit (C1 South) has moved to Level 7
- Neurosurgical, Neurology, Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics Unit (C2 South) has moved to Level 8
19/11/2025
A WIGGLY TOUR l With The Wiggles leading the way, we’re excited for you to explore the new hospital building.
Discover the new Emergency Department on Botany Street, vibrant single-patient rooms with carer beds, a playground and family retreats. The new building offers welcoming spaces for all families to relax, play and be together.
These spaces have been designed with our families and staff, and brought to life by the dedication of our teams and project partners to deliver new and expanded health services for children and young people across the state.
Thanks to the support of Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation, Health Infrastructure, Childrens Cancer Institute, John Holland, Billard Leece, Minderoo Foundation, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, and NSW Health.
18/11/2025
The Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick welcomed its first patients to its new Emergency Department on Botany Street today. Thanks to the support of our amazing staff and Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation, the new ED is already supporting families when they need us most.
If you're visiting the new Emergency Department via car, you can use the emergency drop-off parking via Botany Street.
15/11/2025
📱 Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is coming soon.
Our Clinical Psychologists Daniel You and Micah Boerma share 5 ways to help your child adjust before the ban comes into effect:
1️⃣ Talk about what’s coming
2️⃣ Reduce screen time gradually
3️⃣ Replace, don’t remove, online connection
4️⃣ Build real-world friendships
5️⃣ Model healthy screen habits yourself
Let’s help our kids stay connected, supported and ready.
14/11/2025
Meet your friendly guides in our new building!
Our new hospital building is set to open in stages from Tuesday 18 November. We're excited to introduce special animal friends who will help you find your way in the new building as we all settle in.
These animals represent different levels, and can be found on signs and walls throughout the building.
🐭 Level B1 - Brushtail Possum - Children’s Emergency Department
🐢 Ground Floor - Sydney Basin Turtle - Reception, admissions, playground
🦉 Level 1 - Tawny Frogmouth - Children's Intensive Care Unit
🦎 Level 2 - Eastern Water Dragon - Pharmacy
🦀 Level 3 - Red Shore Crab - Medical Short-Stay Unit, Starlight Express Room, Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre
🦋 Level 4 - Skipper Butterfly - Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre
🐦 Level 5 - Grey Plover - Day Oncology, Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre
🐝 Level 6 - Native Bee - Cellular and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Haematology and Oncology Unit
🐋 Level 7 - Humpback Whale - Medical/Surgical Unit and Infant Unit, Medical/Surgical and Adolescent Unit, Sleep Unit
🐙 Level 8 - Octopus - Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Unit, Neurosciences Ambulatory and Research Centre
These animals come from different places, just like our patients and their families. Look for these friendly faces on your next visit.
12/11/2025
Take a colourful journey through our new building!
The lifts in the new building at Randwick have been transformed into vibrant, uplifting spaces thanks to several artists, including Beci Orpin, Nadia Odlum, Luca French and Annie Holcombe.
Each artwork tells a story. From ocean-inspired collages and playful word games to scenes of coastal lifestyle and discovery, they’re designed to spark imagination and provide joyful distraction for children and families.
Nadia’s word-art walls feature playful phrases created by children and young people in the hospital, in partnership with Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation.
As part of our Arts, Play and Discovery strategy, these creative touches help make hospital spaces more welcoming and full of wonder.
07/11/2025
A few weeks ago, some of our patients took part in a special pebble painting session with the SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium team.
Those patients were invited to the aquarium last Friday to witness those pebbles being introduced to the Gentoo Penguin colony for breeding season 🐧
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On Friday 12 June 1998, the Prince of Wales Children's Hospital officially became known as Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick.
Health minister Dr Andrew Refshauge, who coincidently begun his career as resident doctor at the same site, joined with the then executive director, Prof Les White for this momentous occasion. The event provided public recognition for a facility that had grown and matured over more than half a century of specialist care for sick kids.
What started as a small paediatric wing in the early 1900s had officially graduated into a fully-fledged hospital in its own right; a centre of training and excellence and a facility focussed solely around the needs of sick children.
In 1964, founder Prof John Beveridge had the goal of creating a hospital where caring for children was the main agenda;
“Treat them as if they were your own; your clinical commitment should be nothing less than perfection; your understanding of them and their families should be nothing less than comprehensive; your commitment to them should be nothing less than absolute.” Prof John Beveridge.
This goal continues to shape every aspect of the work undertaken by the team at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and has over time evolved to the simple but important vision of ‘Children first and foremost’.
Working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of children through clinical care, research, education and advocacy remain the mission of the staff at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, a goal shared with colleagues across the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network.
