Meals

Your child will get 3 meals a day while they're staying in hospital. We meet special dietary requirements where this is part of your child’s medical care or cultural or religious needs.

If your child isn't on a restricted diet, they can choose from a range of meals on our inpatient food trolleys which visit each ward. If your child has a food allergy or special dietary requirements, they may not be able to choose from the trolley and will be provided with a trayed meal from the kitchen. In this case, a nutrition assistant may visit you and your child to select a meal that meets your child’s preferences.

Snacks and drinks are always available on wards. Just ask our nursing staff.

Our menu

• Breakfast: Cereal or toast with yoghurt, fruit or juice.
• Lunch: Hot meal with vegetables or a main salad, if it's available and dessert or fruit.
• Dinner: Hot meal with vegetables and dessert or fruit.

Meal times

Meal service times run for about 20 minutes.

Meal vouchers for parents and carers

You don't have to leave your child to find something to eat. Meal vouchers can be purchased and used to access meals from our inpatient food trolleys.

Patient meals will be served first from the food trolley. Parents with purchased meal vouchers will be served at the end of the meal service.

Buying meal vouchers

You can buy vouchers from the Cashier’s Office on Level 2.

• Each voucher costs $7.50, and will buy one meal (breakfast, lunch, or dinner) from the inpatient food trolley.
• You can buy as many vouchers as you want.
• You can use cash, eftpos or credit cards to buy vouchers.
• Vouchers don't expire.
• Unused meal vouchers can be refunded at the Cashier’s Office.

You must use vouchers to buy meals from our food trolleys. We don't take cash or have eftpos on our wards.