University Hospital Vienna (AKH Wien) – Comprehensive Centre for Paediatrics (CCP)

The University Hospital Vienna (AKH Wien) is Austria’s largest hospital and one of Europe’s leading university hospitals, jointly managed with the Medical University of Vienna. Its Comprehensive Centre for Paediatrics (CCP) serves as the hospital’s dedicated paediatric centre, bringing together specialists in the care of pregnant women, newborns, children, and adolescents within a coordinated multidisciplinary framework. By integrating highly specialised patient care, research, and education, the CCP provides comprehensive services for children with acute, chronic, rare, and life-threatening conditions, while serving as a national referral centre in several highly specialised paediatric fields. 

Guided by the shared mission of the University Hospital Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, the CCP is committed to delivering excellent patient care while advancing research and education. Its work is founded on evidence-based medicine, patient-centred care, interdisciplinary collaboration, quality improvement, and patient safety, ensuring that every child, adolescent, and family receives coordinated, personalised care across medical, surgical, and psychosocial disciplines. 

The CCP offers comprehensive specialist services across the full spectrum of paediatric and perinatal medicine, including neonatology and paediatric intensive care, paediatric cardiology, nephrology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, allergology, endocrinology, haematology and oncology, neuropediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, rare diseases, genetic disorders, prenatal diagnostics, and fetal medicine. The centre also provides highly specialised surgical care through expert teams in paediatric surgery, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and maxillofacial surgery. Its research strengths include rare diseases, precision medicine, neonatal and paediatric intensive care, paediatric immunology and infectious diseases, paediatric oncology, translational research, and participation in international registries and benchmarking activities.

Collaboration within ECHO

As a member of ECHO, the Comprehensive Centre for Paediatrics (CCP) brings expertise in highly specialised paediatric and perinatal care, paediatric intensive care, rare diseases, and translational research. The centre actively participates in the PREM-PED initiative. Through its involvement in ECHO, the CCP promotes European collaboration in clinical excellence, research, innovation, and multidisciplinary care to improve outcomes for children and families across Europe.