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Meet CAHS Community Ambassador Padmini Saxena 20 June 2026 For over two decades, Padmini Saxena has worked in Western Australian schools as a teacher, supporting children and families from a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This grounding and her own lived experience fuel her goal to ensure families from all cultural backgrounds feel informed, empowered and supported when navigating the health system. This also drove Padmini to become a CAHS Cultural Ambassador. “I am committed to amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering meaningful collaboration between communities and healthcare providers,” Padmini said. “My goal is to ensure lessons from the past lead to tangible improvements in culturally responsive care to that preventable harm is never repeated.” As an active leader in her community, Padmini participates in multilingual storytelling forums, sharing cultural narratives that fost...
Winner announced at Rotary-CAHS Nurse of the Year awards 19 June 2026 The Rotary-Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS) Nurse of the Year awards celebrating excellence in nursing were held at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) on 18 June. The Nurse of the Year award recognises the outstanding performance of a nurse who demonstrates commitment to an excellent standard of practice and professionalism and provides high quality, safe, evidence based, child and family...
Meet the voices shaping better care for families: introducing My Why? 16 June 2026 At the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), this work is strengthened by our Community Ambassadors - a dedicated group who partner with us by sharing their lived experience, cultural knowledge and insights to help improve care for children, young people and families across our community.
Children and families help shape artworks for WA’s first children’s hospice 08 June 2026 Earlier this month, children, families and volunteers contributed to creative workshops, helping shape integrated glass artworks for Sandcastles (Boodja Mia), WA’s first purpose-built children’s hospice.
Needle-free flu vaccine now available for WA kids 14 April 2026 Families across Western Australia can now access a needle-free influenza vaccination, with Australia’s most comprehensive FluMist program rolling out today. Eligible children aged 2 to 11 years can access the intranasal spray vaccine, offering a simple and painless alternative to the traditional injection.

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Premmies to test power of probiotics 01 January 0001 Some of Western Australia’s tiniest babies are helping to test the gut-boosting potency of probiotics, as part of exciting new research that will determine whether increasing supplementation enhances their gut health, thereby reducing their risk of serious health complications. A 2023 Telethon Trust Research Fellowship is enabling King Edward Memorial Hospital neonatal registrar Dr Chandra Rath to lead the project which could change the lives of the more than 500 Western Australians born at less than 32 weeks’ gestation every year. ‘These babies are our most vulnerable patients,’ he explains. ‘They are at high risk of poor nutrition, leaving them susceptible to a host of serious – and potentially life-threatening – health conditions such as late-onset sepsis and a devastating intestinal disease (necrotising enterocolitis) to which an imbalance of...

Last Updated: 22/06/2021