Latest news

21 March 2025

Super clinic improves access to specialist care for First Nations children

A new dedicated multi-specialty medical ‘super’ clinic and ENT clinic saw 110 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children access specialist care over two days at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

05 March 2025

Healthy Hearing supports rollout of new community hearing screening clinics

Children’s Health Queensland’s (CHQ) Healthy Hearing team has supported the launch of new Community Hearing Screening Clinics aimed at improving access to hearing screenings for children.

05 March 2025

How to help your child through the ‘big feelings’ stirred up by a cyclone

Cyclones and storms can be scary for people of all ages but for babies and young children ‘big feelings’ of fear and confusion can be overwhelming.

23 December 2024

Identical twins home in time for first Christmas after lifesaving surgery

The Heald family will spend their first Christmas at home in Central Queensland, thanks to lifesaving surgery for their daughter at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH).

13 December 2024

Groundbreaking cardiac surgery performed for the first time at the Queensland Children’s Hospital

The state’s top cardiac surgeons have performed a ground-breaking operation at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) – completing the first ROSS-PEARS procedure in the Southern Hemisphere.

11 December 2024

Landmark blister package recycling scheme introduced at Queensland Children’s Hospital

Thousands of medicinal blister packs are being recycled thanks to a landmark recycling scheme at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH).

29 November 2024

Queensland Children’s Hospital celebrates first decade of healing, hope and healthcare excellence

More than 472,000 children and young people from across Queensland and Northern New South Wales have been treated at the hospital since it opened on 29 November 2014.

22 November 2024

The most common items ingested by kids over the past decade

Beads, coins and button batteries were the most swallowed items by children behind a visit to the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) over the past 10 years, emergency records show.

18 November 2024

Staff recognised for 10 years of care at Children's Health Queensland

About 1,900 members of the Children’s Health Queensland team have been recognised for a decade of service to Queensland children and their families.