The Children's Hospital at Westmead - Bandaged Bear Appeal

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead cares for more than 99,164 children every year. As the largest paediatric centre in NSW, the Hospital provides world-class care to children from NSW, Australia and across the Pacific Rim. It is home to the NSW Paediatric Burns Unit, the Paediatric Liver Transplant Unit, the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, the NSW Newborn Screening Service and National Poisons Information Centre, as well as the first Paediatric Tumour Bank in the southern hemisphere.

From paying for new equipment, training and education to funding groundbreaking research or the building of new state-of-the-art facilities, this holistic approach makes a positive impact right across the board, raising the standard of paediatric care as a whole.

Current paediatric health funding does not extend to cover the costs needed to reach the level of excellence these kids deserve, nor does it allow for the kind of groundbreaking research needed to make new discoveries and advancements in paediatric health.