Palliative care understands the needs of people living with a life-threatening illness, where a cure may no longer be possible. The focus of care is to provide pain relief and control symptoms to enhance quality of life. Our team approach also aims to support the psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, carer and family.

Sunshine Hospital Radiation Therapy Centre brings together the expertise and excellence of Western Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to provide a holistic, patient-centred facility, dedicated to providing radiation therapy services to people from the Western metropolitan Melbourne.

The Western Health Dermatology team have a weekly skin cancer clinic at 1.30pm on Friday afternoons in outpatients at Footscray hospital. This clinic sees approximately 20 patients and does minor procedures and biopsies on the day.

We're making sure every child and young person feels safe, respected and supported when accessing our services.

Our 32-bed inpatient unit at Sunshine Hospital cares for children with a wide range of medical and surgical needs.