Hummingbird House has shut for three weeks over Christmas — instead of its usual five-day closure — due to staff shortages linked to an operating deficit. While operator Wesley Mission Queensland has ...

But as terminally ill babies and children are turned away from the facility, staff and families fear for the future of the state’s only pediatric hospice. Hummingbird House closed on Friday for three ...

Nurses have also been left to look after the young patients without a doctor present with directions to call triple-0 if they needed help. The facility, operated by Wesley Mission Queensland, will ...

More than 50 Queensland parents, including those who are currently caring for babies and children with life-limiting palliative conditions, are speaking out about their “deep concerns” regarding ...

He settled in on a Tuesday morning and his mum crawled into bed with him and that is where she stayed until the moment he took his last breath — that same evening. Tom was one of the many terminally ...