The George Gregan Foundation playground at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane was officially opened in September 2008. 
The playground includes wonderful life like sculptures of animals including a five metre crocodile called 'Sweetheart'. Brightly coloured swings, slides and interactive equipment are designed to delight and entertain not only the kids in hospital, but also their siblings and other visitors.

This playground is a scaled down version of the original plans due to the fact that the Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane will close in the near future. A full scale, all access playground will be built in the grounds of the new Queensland Children's Hospital and will include all the equipment originally planned for the Royal Children's Hospital.

The George Gregan Epilepsy Fellowship - Brisbane

The Foundation is thrilled to be funding a Fellowship in Neurology at the Mater Children's and Royal Children's Hospitals in Brisbane. The role of the Fellow is to support the clinical care of children with epilepsy at both hospitals, in the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Dr Damian Clark was the inaugural George Gregan Foundation Epilepsy Fellow for Queensland in 2009. During his time as the 2009 Epilepsy Fellow, Dr Clark worked on a number of important projects and made a great contribution to the treatment of children at the Mater and Royal Children’s Hospitals.  Dr Clark is now working at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne in Paediatric Neurology.

The 2010 Epilepsy Fellow is Dr Harry Singh. At present Dr Singh is supporting the care of children with epilepsy at both the Royal and Mater Children's Hospitals, both inpatients and outpatients. Dr Singh is working on a new exciting project (in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland) to bring high quality education about paediatric epilepsy to all health professionals caring for children with epilepsy throughout Queensland. It is hoped that this education will be provided through online spaces that people currently work in, allowing the doctors to meet one of their key objectives which has been to improve access to education for all health care professionals across the state.

Moving forward through the year, Dr Singh will also work on a project looking at misdiagnosis of epilepsy through an audit of new epilepsy referrals at both Children's Hospitals.

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