The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH)
For parents & families
The Royal Children's Hospital not only cares about your child, and also about informing and supporting parents and carers about their child's health issues. Please find a selection of consumer health information and support sites below.
| RCH Parent info The RCH is a big place, which can be confusing for families. The RCH Parent info site is here to help. Multilingual versions of our "A really helpful guide to The Royal Children's Hospital" booklet are now available. Visit the website... |
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| Kids health info for parents Factsheets about lots of common and not so common medical conditions affecting children. Helping families and healthcare providers care for children together. Visit the website.... |
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| Family Resource Centre The Family Resource Centre is a non-clinical area of the hospital provided for families and caregivers of inpatients and outpatients. It provides a quiet, friendly, relaxing area for families within the hospital, but away from the busy noise and stress of the hospital environment. |
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| Child Health and Safety Resource Centre The Resource Centre for Child Health and Safety (CHAS) is a parent resource centre open to the public. The Centre retails books for parents, medical texts and home safety products. The Centre also has a comprehensive support group directory. The Centre is part of the Family Services Department, which also includes the Safety Centre, the Family Resource Centre and the Volunteer Service. |
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| Consumer Liaison Do you need help understanding Patients Rights? Would you like to give us feedback or make a complaint? Visit the Consumer Liaison page for more information. |
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| Swine Flu Swine Flu Read the latest updates |
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More RCH links...
Please explore the following destinations on the RCH site for more patient and parent information:
- Anaesthesia & Pain Management
- Diabetes
- Cardiology parent information
- Children's Cancer Centre - living with childhood cancer
- Children's Epilepsy Program
- Day Centre
- Equipment Distribution Centre
- Family Advisory Council
- GP - find a family doctor near your home
- Maps of RCH - find you way around RCH
- Support Group Directory
- Wash-up - a new web site to help increase hand hygiene compliance.
