Proud to be the Queensland partner for Hospitals United For Sick Kids
We are so proud to be the Queensland partner for Hospitals United For Sick Kids 💛 – the only national alliance of hospitals for children in Australia.
And this morning, we were delighted to welcome the Today Show to The Prince Charles Hospital to showcase some of the wonderful impacts of this incredible partnership.
This alliance has helped tens of thousands of Queensland children by funding patient care initiatives, vital equipment and research that helps sick kids to get home and back to the things they love and miss.
One amazing outcome of this partnership in Queensland is the appointment of a Child Life Therapist at The Prince Charles Hospital. It has also recently funded the expansion of the Child Life Therapy program into Caboolture Hospital.
Today, our team was so excited to meet the new Blip mascot. The kids also loved their new Blip plushies, which are available at Toymate and help to fund projects and equipment that support sick kids across the country.
Professor Gregory Scalia AMProfessor Gregory Scalia AM first stepped into The Prince Charles Hospital as a registrar in the early 90s. Now, as the hospital’s long-standing Director of Echocardiography, he has dedicated most of his career to ensuring that complex cardiac diagnoses are accessible to a much larger portion of the population through echocardiography
In this blog, we introduce you to our 2025 Research Fellowship recipients and share insights into their work and why their investigations are so important.
PhD candidate Carl Francia first observed the disproportionate impact of Acute Rheumatic Fever and RHD on Indigenous Australians while working as a physiotherapist in 2022.
The hospital’s Occupational Therapy department enlisted the help of some fourth-year UQ students to complete a joint project aimed at promoting Memory Lane and gathering feedback on its usage.
Over the past several decades on The Prince Charles Hospital’s campus, Jacaranda trees have offered shade and shelter from the elements, as well as a beautiful spot for people to gather outside the clinical environments.
And this morning, we were delighted to welcome the Today Show to The Prince Charles Hospital to showcase some of the wonderful impacts of this incredible partnership.
