Vision and Mission

Our Vision

• Better Health for Children
• Excellence in Child Health Care

Our Mission

The Children's Hospital at Westmead will constantly challenge the existing boundaries in paediatrics and child health by leading change and striving for excellence in clinical care, research, teaching and advocacy.

Our Values

• Commitment to the organisational vision.
• Accountability to each other, our customers and to the Hospital.
• Respect for one another and for the families within our care.
• Excellence in our individual and corporate roles.
• Service to the organisation, the community and external agencies.

Our Vision, Mission and Values all contain the word "excellence". Excellence is an upwardly moving target - what was excellent last year may no longer be excellent today. As standards become higher, we should never become complacent.

Our Values are in four dimensions - our relationships with our patients, with the Hospital, with our colleagues and with our community. For example, for the value of Respect, we will respect the families and children we look after no matter who they are or where they are from. We will respect the Hospital as an outstanding institution of which we are proud. We will respect the roles of our colleagues, particularly those for whom we may have responsibility and we will respect the faith the community has in our work. A similar, four-dimensional view applies to each of our Values.

This Hospital is incredibly complex in terms of the interdependencies needed to make it work well. We all contribute to the care of sick children. For those delivering clinical care, this is obvious. For others, in corporate services, finance, community relations and information technology, it is less obvious but just as true. It is this inter-dependence, when we work as a team, respecting each other's contributions which will help us achieve our vision of excellence in child health care.

Corporate Strategic Plan

Click here to download the Corporate Strategic Plan.

Code of Conduct

The Hospital's Code of Conduct is available online.

Business Ethics

The Hospital's Business Ethics is available online.

Fraud Control

The strategy adopted by the Hospital is an endeavour to prevent any losses of scarce health resources through fraudulent activities of people, both from within and from outside the Hospital. Click here to download the Fraud Control Strategy.

Reporting Suspected Fraud or Unethical Behaviour

If you are concerned about a suspected fraud, or a possible breach of the Hospital's Business Ethics, or about any conduct that could involve fraud, maladministration, corrupt conduct, or serious and substantial waste of public funds, please contact CHW Internal Audit Manager directly by letter to Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145 Australia or e-mail audit@chw.edu.au.

Charter of Physical Activity and Sport

The Hospital's Charter of Physical Activity and Sport for Children and Youth is available online.

Annual Report 2007

The Children's Hospital at Westmead's Annual Report 2007 (1.11 MB) is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for printing or reading online.

You will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 6.0 or higher) to print or read the Annual Report.

The Children's Hospital at Westmead's 2006  (1.14 MB), 2005  (1 MB), 2004  (1.2 MB), 2003  (0.9 MB), 2002  (0.6 MB), 2001  (1.0 MB), 2000  (0.4 MB) and 1999  (1.9 MB) Annual Reports remain available.

Other Sites

Do you require more information? You may find some of the following sites useful.

NSW Health is an important part of the NSW community and a major responsibility of the NSW Government. Around 100,000 people work in or directly with NSW Health. NSW Health provides a comprehensive range of health and health related services covering health protection, health promotion and education, health screening, diagnosis, treatment, emergency transport, acute care, rehabilitation, continuing care for chronic illness, counselling, support and palliative care.

Karitane provides support, guidance and information to health professionals and families with children from birth to five years. Services include the Karitane Care Line (24-hour telephone counselling), family care cottages, a specialised unit for women with perinatal mood disorders and a residential facility.

For more than 53 years UNICEF has been helping governments, communities and families make the world a better place for children. Part of the United Nations system, UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children. Its activities are as varied as the challenges it faces, encouraging the care and stimulation that offer the best possible start in life, helping prevent childhood illness and death, making pregnancy and childbirth safe, combating discrimination and cooperating with communities to ensure that girls as well as boys attend school.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) supports Ronald McDonald Houses and other projects that directly help seriously ill children lead happier healthier lives. Ronald McDonald Houses are attached to major children's and women's hospitals throughout Australia and provide accommodation and support for families of sick children. As well as the Ronald McDonald Houses, RMHC provides Family Rooms, Holiday Houses, the RMHC Cord Blood Bank and small grants. Another major initiative is the Ronald McDonald Learning Program for children whose education has suffered through illness and missed schooling. This is a comprehensive educational catch-up program.