Children's burns service
We have specialist pathway for children up to the age of 18. The information below only applies to children.
Children’s burn pathway (for under 16 years)
When children like you come to the hospital with a burn, our special burn doctors or senior nurses will decide the best place for you to stay, depending on what care you need.
If your burn needs extra special care, like close monitoring and advanced skin treatments, you might first go to our Intensive Care Unit.
This is a room with special equipment to keep track of your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. There are also machines that help give you medicine. You’ll have your own nurse who will stay with you the whole time and a friendly Play Specialist to make sure you’re comfortable and have things to do.
After assessment or intensive care
If you’re feeling a bit better or your burn doesn’t need as much care, you’ll move to our children’s burns ward. This ward has lots of cool things to make you feel at home! We have:
- Four individual bedrooms for kids who need their own space.
- A special four-bed room where kids can stay together.
- Two treatment rooms where we help you heal.
- Our fun Jungle room and Bubble room, which are colourful and bright to help you feel better!
We even have a place for your parents! One parent can stay with you in your room, and there’s a kitchen and shower room just for them to use.
Recovery
When your burn gets smaller and you’re feeling much better or if you don’t need to stay, you’ll come back to the hospital as an outpatient, which means you don’t need to stay overnight.
You’ll visit us in our Jungle room or Bubble room until your burn is fully healed.
Discharge and after care
Once your burn is all healed, our burns therapists will help if you need anything to make sure your skin stays healthy. They’ll support you with any care you need for your scar.