Accelerating the sharing of excellence & innovation among health services caring for children & young people across Australia
& New Zealand.
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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
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…
Zoom Meeting
Targeted Oxygen for Initial Resuscitation of Preterm Infants
Zoom Meeting
Care Navigation: A Combined Effort
Zoom Meeting
Connected Communities, Safer Care: CAHS Community Ambassador Program
Zoom Meeting
The QCH Strong Foundations Program: building parent capacity when caring for a young person with an eating disorder
Zoom Meeting
‘We just want to be heard and understood’ – Measuring experiences of multicultural safety in hospital care
Zoom Meeting
Functional Neurological Disorder Pathways Clinic – Rehabilitation Planned Program
Zoom Meeting
Restacking the Odds
Zoom Meeting
Innovation Case Study: A tele-health enabled ADHD Service
Zoom Meeting
Utilising an experiential learning approach to develop a paediatric deteriorating patient education program
Zoom Meeting
The Evolution of the Butterfly Room: A Clinical Narrative of Bereavement Care
Face-to-Face
Call for Abstracts: CHA Paediatric Insight Forum, 19-20 October 2026 at Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach QLD
Face-to-Face
CHA Directors of Paediatrics Face to Face Meeting, 21 October 2026 at Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach QLD
Face-to-Face
CHA Directors of Nursing Face to Face Meeting, 21 October 2026 at Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach QLD
Advocacy for children and their families
Our members are motivated by a common goal – making things better
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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