among health services caring for children & young people
across Australia & New Zealand.
CHA is a vibrant and diverse non-profit community of children’s hospitals & paediatric units across Australia & New Zealand.
Our members share a passion for continuously improving the experiences & outcomes for all children & young people requiring hospital care, and their families.
Every week they generously share ideas & improvements with each other through CHA. All staff of member hospitals are welcome to participate.
Our Community
children’s healthcare services across Australia and New Zealand.
of children receiving public inpatient care each year are looked after by CHA members.
children’s healthcare professionals
actively participate in our community.
In Focus
What We Do
Networking
Benchmarking
Collaborative Improvement
What We Do
Networking
CHA creates opportunites for our members to connect and share ideas, learnings and innovations within networks of like-minded peers.
Benchmarking
The CHA Benchmarking Program facilitates data driven improvement in healthcare and outcomes for children and families.
Collaborative Improvement
CHA supports member services to work together, to share learning and to partner with children and families to deliver safe, high quality & equitable healthcare to all children and young people.
Upcoming Events
Every week CHA host virtual meetings on a wide range of topics to enable members to showcase their achievements and seek support from peers for challenges. Log in to our member’s website to register for free for any meetings that interest you…
Paediatric HITH – From crafting a successful…
February 5th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
Donna Cleary from the Centenary Women’s and Children’s Hospital, ACT, will kindly share her journey in creating an effective paediatric…
Face to Face Meeting Program Development -…
February 11th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
Join us to help shape the program for the CHA Medication Safety Face-to-Face Meeting on 26–27 May 2025! This interactive…
Wellbeing by design: engaging youth with chronic…
February 19th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
The webinar will provide a case study of a 12-month co-design process conducted with young people with chronic illness to…
Welcome to Consumer Engagement Leaders Network
February 25th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
We’re excited to announce the launch of the CHA Consumer Engagement Leaders Network—a group for paediatric leaders passionate about working…
Improving Support for Autism and Intellectual Disability…
March 5th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
ISAID is a novel model of care for children and adolescents with ASD and/or ID who present to the ED…
Strengthening Care 4 Children – a Stepped…
March 6th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
Across Australia and other high-income countries, hospitals are struggling to meet demand. More children are waiting on long outpatient clinic…
Paediatric Emergency Education Program (PEEP)
March 19th, 2025 12:30 PM AEDT
The Paediatric Emergency Education Program (PEEP) is a new free peer-reviewed resource featuring over 50 Case-Based Discussions (CBDs) on common paediatric emergency presentations, such…
Cerebral Palsy Programs and Models of Care
April 30th, 2025 12:30 PM AEST
The first CHA web conference of 2025 will explore Cerebral Palsy (CP) programs and Models of Care, emphasizing the importance…
Advocacy for children and
their families
for children and their families requiring hospital care. CHA is
committed to championing effective strategies for partnering with
children, young people and their families and advocating for a healthy
sustainable future for children, families and the planet.
Organisational Membership
- Connecting, supporting and developing our community.
CHA Membership is open to all public and private hospitals/health networks providing care to children and young people. All staff at member hospitals are welcome to participate in CHA networks that interest them.
Associate Membership is available* for other organisations that share CHA's commitment to excellence & innovation in children's healthcare (*on approval from our board).
CHA connects over 3,400 paediatric professionals from more than 95 hospitals and hospital networks, ranging from large specialist children's hospitals through to paediatric wards in small rural hospitals.
- Connecting, supporting and developing our community.
CHA Membership is open to all public and private hospitals/health networks providing care to children and young people. All staff at member hospitals are welcome to participate in CHA networks that interest them.
Associate Membership is available* for other organisations that share CHA’s commitment to excellence & innovation in children’s healthcare (*on approval from our board).
CHA connects over 3,400 paediatric professionals from more than 95 hospitals and hospital networks, ranging from large specialist children’s hospitals through to paediatric wards in small rural hospitals.
Organisational Membership
- Connecting, supporting and developing our community.
CHA Membership is open to all public and private hospitals/health networks providing care to children and young people. All staff at member hospitals are welcome to participate in CHA networks that interest them.
Associate Membership is available* for other organisations that share CHA’s commitment to excellence & innovation in children’s healthcare (*on approval from our board).
CHA connects over 3,400 paediatric professionals from more than 95 hospitals and hospital networks, ranging from large specialist children’s hospitals through to paediatric wards in small rural hospitals.
What our members are saying
Our health service is working with CHA to develop a benchmarking process to help us to study and improve the quality of care we provide. It is such a pleasure to work with the enthusiastic, helpful, and knowledgeable CHA team. They bring a collaborative, ‘can-do’ attitude to our meetings that helps us to break complex problems into manageable steps and work towards a shared goal.
Gehan Roberts
Paediatrician/Associate Director, CCCH, the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
We are developing something from scratch for which there is no template or logical precursor. Busy clinicians often have ideas of what could be in the data space but seldom the skills or abilities to turn this into reality. CHA is the bridge between concept and reality.
Doug Shelton
Clinical Director, Women, Newborn and Children's Services, Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD
[CHA is]…a platform for networking, consultation and collaboration to drive innovative
ideas and evidence based practice in the management of Australian children’s healthcare.
Joanne Clark
Allied Health Coordinator, WA Country Health Service
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