Corporate Body
Royal Children's Hospital (1953 - )
- From
- 1953
Parkville, Victoria, Australia - Functions
- Hospitals or Clinics
- Website
- http://www.rch.org.au
- Location
- Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052
Summary
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) was established in 1953 when the Children's Hospital was granted the prefix 'Royal'. In 1963 the hospital moved from its cramped premises in Carlton to a new building in Parkville. In 2002 the RCH is a 310 bed paediatric hospital. The Hospital provides services for infants, children and adolescents from the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania, as well as south-east Asia.
Published resources
Books
- Gardiner, Lyndsay, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, 1870-1970: a History (Parkville, Victoria: Royal Childrens Hospital, 1970), 231 pp. Details
- McInnes, Margaret, Caring for our Children: the History of Nursing, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006), 380 pp. Details
- Yule, Peter, The Royal Children's Hospital: a History of Faith, Science and Love (Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales: Halstead Press, 1999), 656 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Robson, Belinda, 'From kindergarten teachers to child psychotherapists: an account of the development of child psychotherapy at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital 1930s to 1970s Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1-16', Health & History, 17 (1) (2015), 1-16. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7373942. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/127301998. Details
- Pictures Of Standard Syndromes and Undiagnosed Malformations (POSSUM), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, 2019, https://www.possum.net.au/. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-470221. Details
Resource Sections
- 'VA 1239 Royal Childrens Hospital', in Public Record Office Victoria online catalogue, Public Record Office Victoria, 2002, https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/VA1239. Details
See also
- Keys, Adam, 'Dr Ian Hamilton McDonald, MBBS, DA, FANZCA: the evolution of paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne', Anaesthesia and intensive care, 47 (3 supp.) (2019), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X19864946. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 22 July 2002, Last modified: 26 June 2018