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A - Z Health Factsheets

Established in October 2002 Kaleidoscope acts as an umbrella organization that integrates a range of health care services designed to meet the every-changing health needs of babies, children, young people and their families.

Extending from the flagship John Hunter Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, this single network brings together the
vast range of hospital and community-based services in the Lake Macquarie, Upper and Lower Hunter,
Port Stephens, Lower Mid North Coast and Greater Newcastle regions.

Kaleidoscope links together children's services at hospitals across the region, including Taree, Maitland, Cessnock, Kurri Kurri, Muswellbrook, Scone and Singleton as well as a wide range of community-based services including mental health.

Many children visit the Hunter for specialist health services each year, particularly from the Mid-North Coast and New England regions of New South Wales. In fact, John Hunter Children's Hospital provides services to about 20% of the State's population of children aged up to 16 years.

Kaleidoscope, in conjunction with Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital have developed a very comprehensive library of fact sheets for common illness's in Children. There are fact sheets on everything from abdominal pain to Whooping Cough. This is a fanatstic resource for parents to use and as you can see from the following examples it is great place for all your needs:

For more information and how to access the A - Z factsheets, please click on the following link www.kaleidoscope.org.au

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