Our patients

Hospital School creation to help healthcare heroes

The students at The Hospital School at Westmead have shown that you are never too young to make a difference, producing mask extenders to help the hospital staff responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lost but never forgotten

Bear Cottage is more than a hospice, it's my family

"In May 2020 we came to stay at Bear Cottage for the first time. Being a Children's Hospice, we had no idea what to expect. Our beautiful girl, Bobbi, had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer just six months prior to our visit.

Charlotte's story

On Saturday the 28th March 2020, I was diagnosed with 'Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Vasculitis'.

I am 12 years old and had always been fit, strong and healthy and was really enjoying my first year of High School.

New hope for girls with Rett Syndrome

In a new clinical trial being led by The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, doctors are testing whether drug used to help adult Alzheimer’s patients can help improve some of the devastating features of Rett syndrome.