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.