The hospitals will include an emergency department, critical care unit, maternity unit, neonatology unit, paediatric unit, mental health unit, and various clinical support services.

Executive, teaching and administrative staffing and funding is provided by the DET in liaison with the hospital's paediatric and nursing units, and may vary according to the changing needs of the school.

The Making a difference campaign was launched under the birthday special with the aim of raising funds for paediatric units in public hospitals across South Africa.

In 2012, a new outpatients department opened, along with refurbished burns and paediatric units.

Peanut Ward is a nine-bed paediatric unit providing specialist plastic surgical, burns, maxillofacial and corneo plastic care for 0-16 year olds.

The paediatric unit was housed at the back of the hospital, a modern wing built on to the ponderous Victorian main hospital.

Dr Cristescue has toured West Suffolk Hospital's paediatric unit, courtesy of unit manager Miss Joanna Paul, and visited the Hardwicke House surgery, Sudbury.

This reinforced my interest in the subject, but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical, surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage.

Weston General Hospital opened a new paediatric unit, the Seashore Centre, in February 2007.

Currently the hospital has 6 general paediatric medical and 4 general paediatric surgical units.