A charming illustration of a humpback whale travelling along Sydney's coastline adorns the sixty-metre-long clinical link bridge connecting the new children's hospital building to the Prince of Wales Hospital. 

When Aiden* presented to our hospital with significant mental health concerns, his family were at breaking point. An introduction to Shania Giles, in our Safeguards team, turned their life around.

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) has gone a step further in its efforts to embed art in clinical environments, with the new hospital buildings at Westmead and Randwick set to welcome digital, immersive artforms to transform treatment spaces.

Thanks to the work by the Kids Advanced Therapeutics program, we were the first site to dose participants in a worldwide SMA gene therapy clinical trial.

For families like Angelina’s, a rare disease diagnosis can feel like being lost in a dark forest, desperately searching for a clear path forward.