Visiting hours
If you're the parent or carer of a child, you can visit anytime of the day or night. You're welcome to spend as much time with your child as possible.
Visiting hours for other family members and friends are between 10 am and 8 pm.
Please make sure young visitors are supervised by an adult at all times.
Intensive care unit
If you're the parent or carer of a child in our intensive care unit, you can visit anytime of the day or night.
Other visitors, with approval from the parent or carer, can visit between:
- 10 am and noon
- 2 pm and 9 pm.
No more than 2 people at a time can be at your child’s bedside. If you'd like to have more people in the room, you'll need to speak to the nurse in charge who may make an exception. This may depend on your child's condition.
Hand hygiene
We care for a lot of sick children which means there's a risk of infections spreading to other patients.
The best way to prevent this is to keep our hands clean. Make sure you wash your hands using soap and water or a hand sanitiser every time you go in or out of a patient's room.
If you’re unwell
Please don’t visit anyone in hospital if you have, or have recently had a cough, cold, diarrhoea, vomiting or any other infectious condition.
Please also tell our staff if you or another member of your family has had contact with someone who has recently been sick.
Things you can't bring into the hospital
To help us keep patients safe from allergies, please don't bring the following into the hospital:
- nuts or products containing nuts - including peanut butter
- fresh flowers
- latex balloons.
Getting here
Find out how to get to the hospital by train, bus, car or taxi, and where you can drop people off and pick them up.
Entering the hospital after hours
Our external entrance doors are locked between 8 pm and 6 am so people can't wander around the hospital after hours. If you need to come in during the night, you have to go through the emergency department on Stanley Street.
Our exit doors are always open from the inside.