Two new hospital buildings are transforming care for children and families across Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. 

The Bilima Building opened at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick in November, followed by the Wattle Building at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in May. 

Together, they represent a major step forward for children’s healthcare in NSW, bringing expanded clinical services, advanced technology and research into spaces designed around the needs of children and families. 

At Randwick, the Bilima Building is home to a new Children’s Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and Australia’s first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre. By bringing clinical care, research and education together under one roof, it will help promising discoveries reach children sooner. 

At Westmead, the 14-storey Wattle Building provides new and expanded critical, complex and acute care services, including cancer services, intensive care and advanced surgical facilities. 

Both buildings were designed with input from patients, families and hospital staff. Light-filled private rooms allow parents and carers to remain close to their child, while spaces for play, rest and time together can make difficult hospital stays a little more manageable. 

The buildings are already welcoming patients, but what they make possible will continue to grow—supporting world-class care today and the research and innovation that will shape children’s healthcare for generations to come. 

Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, children can receive care in environments designed to help them feel safer and more comfortable, while clinicians and researchers pursue better treatments and brighter outcomes.