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Help empower RCH patients

Being sick in hospital can be a challenging experience for children. With your support, art therapy provides patients with a creative outlet to express their feelings and find joy.

Click here to read more.

COVID-19 testing at the RCH

For children's COVID-19 testing, the RCH Respiratory Infection Clinic is open daily from 8.30am to 4.15pm. To access COVID-19 testing, please enter the hospital carpark via entry 4 and follow the signage to lower ground carpark.

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Stay safe as sport returns

Playing sport is a great way for kids to have fun, make friends and stay healthy. However, it is also one of the most common ways kids get injured.

Click here to read more.

2021 Good Friday Appeal

We are humbled to announce that the Good Friday Appeal once again raised an incredible amount of money for The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) with the final tally standing at $17,122,879!

Click here to read more.

RCH National Child Health Poll

Traditional health concerns for children have dropped to the bottom of the concern list for parents with modifiable lifestyle factors including poor diet, lack of activity and screen time proving to be what worries parents most.

Click here to read more.

Help keep patients connected to their care

With your support, patients and families can continue to receive RCH care from home with access to specialised equipment.

Click here for more information.

COVID-19 resources

The RCH has made key information about COVID-19 available, including translated resources, helpful videos for children and families and information about hospital site attendance.

Click here to view the translated resources

My RCH Portal: Your record at your fingertips

Click here to learn more or sign up

Celebration of RCH turning 150 years old

For 150 years, The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has provided world-leading care to Victoria’s sickest and most vulnerable children and young people.

Click here to read about the history.

Kids Health Info

Kids Health Info is dedicated to providing quality, up-to-date paediatric health information that you can depend on. Over 300 factsheets on topics that are important to you and your child, it’s free and available 24-hours a day, when and where you need it.

Click here to access the Kids Health Info fact sheets

Travel a long way to get to the RCH?

The RCH offers telehealth video-consultation for families from rural and regional Victoria or interstate. Usually, this is for known patients for follow-up appointments. This can be in your home or with your local doctor.

Click here to find out more.

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Help empower RCH patients

Being sick in hospital can be a challenging experience for children. With your support, art therapy provides patients with a creative outlet to express their feelings and find joy.

Click here to read more.

COVID-19 testing at the RCH

Click here to read more.

Stay safe as sport returns

Playing sport is a great way for kids to have fun, make friends and stay healthy. However, it is also one of the most common ways kids get injured.

Click here to read more.

2021 Good Friday Appeal

We are humbled to announce that the Good Friday Appeal once again raised an incredible amount of money for The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) with the final tally standing at $17,122,879!

Click here to read more.

RCH National Child Health Poll

Click here to read more.

Help keep patients connected to their care

With your support, patients and families can continue to receive RCH care from home with access to specialised equipment.

Click here for more information.

COVID-19 resources

The RCH has made key information about COVID-19 available, including translated resources, helpful videos for children and families and information about hospital site attendance.

Click here to view the translated resources

My RCH Portal: Your record at your fingertips

Click here to learn more or sign up

Celebration of RCH turning 150 years old

For 150 years, The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has provided world-leading care to Victoria’s sickest and most vulnerable children and young people.

Click here to read about the history.

Kids Health Info

Click here to access the Kids Health Info fact sheets

Travel a long way to get to the RCH?

Click here to find out more.

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Your guide to the RCH

Kids health information

Clinical practice guidelines

My RCH
Portal

Translated resources - COVID-19 Telehealth appointments Your guide to the RCH Children’s health information Clinical practice guidelines My RCH Portal

Emergency Department status

View the Emergency Department status page for a real time guide to how busy we are.

Kid's COVID-19 testing

View the Respiratory Infection Clinic status page for a real time guide to how busy we are.

Emergency Department status

View the Emergency Department status page for a real time guide to how busy we are.

Kid's COVID-19 testing

Visit the Respiratory Infection Clinic status page for a real time guide to how busy we are.

Archives and collections

Take a walk through time as we move through the hospital’s beginnings, growth, and innovations since its inception.

Archives and collections

Take a walk through time as we move through the hospital’s beginnings, growth, and innovations since its inception.

Archives and collections

Take a walk through time as we move through the hospital’s beginnings, growth, and innovations since its inception.

RCH News

- Champions for Children: Meet George and Greta
  Everyone experiences pain differently and there are many ways to manage pain. For children living with chronic pain, the cause and effects can vary greatly. We chat with George Chalkiadis and Greta Palmer from the RCH’s Children’s Pain Management Service to learn more.
- Every cleft smile tells a story: this is Georgie’s
  Every cleft smile tells a story. Two-year-old Georgie was diagnosed with cleft palate soon after she was born. Click here to read her journey!
- Receiving the gift of life twice
  Not many families receive the gift of organ donation twice. For two-year-old Riley and her parents Katrine and Rob, the prospect of needing two separate liver transplants quickly became their reality.
- Five month hospital stay ends for Dash as he walks out of the RCH
  Dash has finally returned home more than five months after a serious accident that left him fighting for life. Click here to read about his farewell from the RCH.
- Taya and Mya break down the stigma of type 1 diabetes
  Taya and Mya are both Victorian state athletic medallists, undiscouraged by their battle with type 1 diabetes. These fearless young girls prove anything is possible. Click here to read their story.
- Oliver’s RCH journey: the diary of a heart kid
  At 20-weeks pregnant, first-time parents Jacinta and Darcy attended a morphology scan to be told that something was wrong with their baby’s heart. Click here to read brave Oliver's story.
- Champions for Children: Meet Aboriginal Case Manager, Annette Gaulton
  In honour of NAIDOC Week 2021, we caught up with Annette Gaulton – or Netty – from our very own Wadja Aboriginal Family Place.
- World Scleroderma Day: Harrison Pennicott’s incredible journey
  In recognition of World Scleroderma Day today, we caught up with a familiar face at the RCH, Harrison Pennicott. The brave nine-year-old has spent five years battling the rare skin and auto-immune disease. Click here to read about his journey.
- Infant Mental Health Awareness Week
  The RCH Infant Mental Health team is dedicated to advocating for education, awareness, and promotion of positive infant mental health. We had a chat to RCH Senior Mental Health Clinicians, Lisa Da Silva and Kathy Eyre, to find out more.
- Congratulations, Paul!
  Congratulations to RCH Pastoral and Spiritual Care Coordinator Paul Hammat who has been awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. Click here to read more.

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RCH News

Champions for Children: Meet George and Greta
Everyone experiences pain differently and there are many ways to manage pain. For children living with chronic pain, the cause and effects can vary greatly. We chat with George Chalkiadis and Greta Palmer from the RCH’s Children’s Pain Management Service to learn more.
Every cleft smile tells a story: this is Georgie’s
Every cleft smile tells a story. Two-year-old Georgie was diagnosed with cleft palate soon after she was born. Click here to read her journey!
Receiving the gift of life twice
Not many families receive the gift of organ donation twice. For two-year-old Riley and her parents Katrine and Rob, the prospect of needing two separate liver transplants quickly became their reality.
Five month hospital stay ends for Dash as he walks out of the RCH
Dash has finally returned home more than five months after a serious accident that left him fighting for life. Click here to read about his farewell from the RCH.
Taya and Mya break down the stigma of type 1 diabetes
Taya and Mya are both Victorian state athletic medallists, undiscouraged by their battle with type 1 diabetes. These fearless young girls prove anything is possible. Click here to read their story.
Oliver’s RCH journey: the diary of a heart kid
At 20-weeks pregnant, first-time parents Jacinta and Darcy attended a morphology scan to be told that something was wrong with their baby’s heart. Click here to read brave Oliver's story.
Champions for Children: Meet Aboriginal Case Manager, Annette Gaulton
In honour of NAIDOC Week 2021, we caught up with Annette Gaulton – or Netty – from our very own Wadja Aboriginal Family Place.
World Scleroderma Day: Harrison Pennicott’s incredible journey
In recognition of World Scleroderma Day today, we caught up with a familiar face at the RCH, Harrison Pennicott. The brave nine-year-old has spent five years battling the rare skin and auto-immune disease. Click here to read about his journey.
Infant Mental Health Awareness Week
The RCH Infant Mental Health team is dedicated to advocating for education, awareness, and promotion of positive infant mental health. We had a chat to RCH Senior Mental Health Clinicians, Lisa Da Silva and Kathy Eyre, to find out more.
Congratulations, Paul!
Congratulations to RCH Pastoral and Spiritual Care Coordinator Paul Hammat who has been awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. Click here to read more.

Support Us

- Help empower RCH patients
  Tyler was diagnosed with leukaemia just weeks before his fifth birthday. Through your support, he’s able to receive art therapy sessions between his chemotherapy treatments.
- Support the art therapy program
  Being sick in hospital can be a challenging experience for children. With your support, art therapy provides patients with a creative outlet to express their feelings and find joy.

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

COVID-19 information

Appointments

Help empower RCH patients

COVID-19 testing at the RCH

Stay safe as sport returns

2021 Good Friday Appeal

RCH National Child Health Poll

Help keep patients connected to their care

COVID-19 resources

My RCH Portal: Your record at your fingertips

Celebration of RCH turning 150 years old

Kids Health Info

Travel a long way to get to the RCH?

Help empower RCH patients

COVID-19 testing at the RCH

Stay safe as sport returns

2021 Good Friday Appeal

RCH National Child Health Poll

Help keep patients connected to their care

COVID-19 resources

My RCH Portal: Your record at your fingertips

Celebration of RCH turning 150 years old

Kids Health Info

Travel a long way to get to the RCH?

Emergency Department status

Kid's COVID-19 testing

Emergency Department status

Kid's COVID-19 testing

Archives and collections

Archives and collections

Archives and collections

The Royal Children's Hospital

The Royal Children's Hospital