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Hospital visits from sports stars have been limited for our patients since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it has been extra special to welcome both familiar and new faces to the WCH this year as restrictions began to ease.

Everyone is at risk of heat-related illness during hot weather, but some groups of people – such as babies and young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people who have chronic health conditions – are more at risk than others.

After being born prematurely at just 25 weeks and 4 days in 2017 at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH), Lara and her family had a big journey ahead of them.

To celebrate Allied Health Professionals Day we share the story of 11 month old Betty and how her team of Allied Health Professionals from the Women’s and Children’s Health Network helped her start to life.

Patients of the Women’s and Children’s Health Network have 20,000 reasons to smile thanks to the Kids’ Cancer Project teddy bear program and the generosity of its supporters.

Play Therapist Chelsea brings a unique skill set and nurturing demeanour to the Michael Rice Centre for Haematology and Oncology – showing us there is so much more than clinical care when it comes to children’s cancer treatment.