Governance of the new Queensland Children's Hospital

The Queensland Children's Hospital will be a Government-owned and operated public hospital for children and young people throughout Queensland.
It will be managed by Queensland Health and its staff complement will comprise the former staff of both the Royal Children's Hospital and the Mater Children's Hospital as well as transferring staff from the Queensland Paediatric Cardiac Service when it was located at the Prince Charles Hospital (prior to May 2008).

The establishment of a new tertiary hospital for children and young people in Queensland is only one part of a new approach to the coordination of statewide paediatric services.  Queensland Health is close to finalising a Statewide Paediatric Health Services Plan which is due for completion in March 2009.

Within this plan, the Queensland Children's Hospital will have a central role in the networked delivery of tertiary services (excluding those delivered in Townsville), and may also play a role to support paediatric capacity in a secondary network involving metropolitan, outer metropolitan and regional hospitals.

New leader for children's health services  

The planning and delivery of these coordinated networks and their inter-relationship with the QCH will be the responsibility of Dr Peter Steer who has been appointed to the Role of Chief Executive Officer of Children's Health Services for Queensland. 

Dr Steer took up his position in January 2009 following the completion of his executive duties in Canada where he has been President of McMaster Children's Hospital, Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University and Chief of the Department of Paediatrics at both McMaster Children's Hospital and St Joseph's Health Care, Hamilton, Ontario.

Dr Steer is a native Queenslander who has extensive international training and experience in paediatrics.