Maternal and Child Health Care
The NSW Health system and health workers play a key role in assisting children and families to achieve health and wellbeing.
NSW Health provides a range of health care services to children and their families. Health services specifically provided for children and their families include:
- Early childhood health services
- Family care centres
- Residential family care centres
- Parent help telephone lines
- Child and family teams in community health services
- Child protection services
- Child and adolescent mental health services
- Children's wards in general hospitals
- Having a Baby
- Specialist children's hospitals.