2025 Regional Funding Announcement
The Good Friday Appeal is taking The Royal Children’s Hospital excellence into the regions to support regional paediatric health services – Barwon Health, Bendigo Health, Grampians Health, Goulburn Valley Health, Albury Wodonga Health and Latrobe Regional Health.
Find out more about regional funding
Research
Research is essential in transforming the future of children’s health & your community support helps research teams to push the boundaries of paediatric care.
- Generation Victoria (GenV): Establishment and Campus Value
- The RCH Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS)
- The Melbourne Children’s Trials Centre
- TOTAL XVII – TOTAL Therapy Study
- Type 1 Diabetes Immunotherapy Program at MCRI/RCH
- Healthy Trajectories: A Child and Youth Disability Research Hub
Patient & Family Centred Care
The Royal Children’s Hospital is committed to focussing not only on the patient but the whole family. This ensures families are considered and included each step of the way in their child’s care.
- Child Life Therapy (Educational Play Therapy Procedural Support)
- The Comfort Kids Program
- Child Life Therapy in the Emergency Department
- Implementing a Vascular Access Specialist Team at the RCH
- The Integrated RCH Apheresis service – A Centre of Excellence
- Melbourne Children’s Campus Mental Health Strategy
Education and Training
With a highly skilled staff of almost 4,000, the hospital invests in academic leadership, education programs, scholarships, fellowships and fostering excellence for staff and the future generation of health care professionals.
- Uncle Bobs Neurology Fellowship
- Allied Health Research Capacity Development (Director of Allied Health Research)
- Allied Health and Nursing Development, Education and Leadership Program
- Workforce education for impact and reach: The Education Hub
- Health Literacy Program
- Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine
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