Specialist Children’s Health Queensland services are delivered subject to individual catchment restrictions. Please check the catchment area for the service your patient requires via the Find a service page before submitting your referral.

Children who live within the Queensland Children’s Hospital catchment should be referred to our hospital for specialist treatment as required.

Children who live outside the Queensland Children’s Hospital catchment should be referred to their local hospital and health service if they require treatment for general paediatric conditions.

However, patients should be referred to the Queensland Children’s Hospital if:

• it is an urgent referral such as a new cancer diagnosis
• the local service does not provide the required service/s.

The Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) is part of a statewide network of public hospitals providing general paediatric care. While the hospital provides sub-specialist paediatric care to patients from across the state, only children and young people living within QCH’s local catchment area can be referred to the general paediatric outpatient department.

All referrals for general paediatric outpatients should be sent to your patient’s local hospital service in the first instance. To determine which general paediatric catchment area your patient lives in, please use the search function below.

Search by your patient’s suburb of residence or postcode to find their nearest hospital and health service offering general paediatric care.