Lady Cilento Children's Hospital goes live in Brisbane, replacing Royal Children's and Mater Children's Nurses Meegan Price, Roslyn Bale and Marissa Alexander put the finishing touches to the emergency ward. PARENTS will be turned away from Brisbane's Royal Children's Hospital from 8am today and told to cross the river to the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital as it opens its doors for the first time. Named in honour of Brisbane-based medical practitioner and journalist Lady Phyllis Cilento, the new hospital replaces the Mater Children's and Royal Children's hospitals, with about 60 children from each moving into the new site this morning. NEW HOSPITAL: Opening date confirmed OPINION: Bligh's biggest blunder WAIT TIMES: Not all surgery qualifies Lady Cilento director of emergency Jason Acworth urged parents not to go to the Mater or RCH after the doors closed at 8am. "We'll be ready from 8am to deal with any major emergencies," Dr Acworth said. The kid-friendly waiting room at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital. Pic: Tara Croser It will be busy. But we'd also encourage people not to come just for a sticky beak. There will be no extra ambulances on standby for parents who mistakenly arrive at the RCH after the cutoff. Parents will be expected to drive their children to Lady Cilento or, if their child's condition has seriously deteriorated, they will have to call for an ambulance. The only staff there will just be finishing off the care for those children, we won't have a fully staffed emergency department ... If they're going to be arriving after 8am they're much better off coming to Lady Cilento," Dr Acworth said. There will be some instructions there at the Royal, they should just call triple-0 ... It will go as part of the normal process with calling in an emergency. He urged parents to remember there are children's emergency hospitals still operating on the northside at Prince Charles and at Logan, Ipswich, Redlands, Redcliffe and Caboolture. An inpatient room with point-of-care terminal ... and city views! Eight ambulances will be on a continual loop moving inpatient children from the RCH to Lady Cilento today, with oncology patients travelling first. It's a separate group of ambulances ... they've put on separate staff and crews just dedicated to do that. We will be having one child coming across every 10 minute basically for the whole day," Dr Acworth said. Children will travel with a parent and a medical staffer. Patients at the Mater Children's Hospital will be walked or wheeled across from 7.45am. Staff were expected to work through last night putting final touches to the new hospital, with 60,000 pieces of furniture and equipment moved in over the last two months. "We've got a lot of new equipment in here and then all the equipment that we can from the Royal Children's Hospital has come across too," Dr Acworth said. There are 359 inpatient beds available, and it is likely a third to half of these will be full by tonight depending how many children present today. There are 64 beds in emergency plus six triage bays. Head of nursing Shelley Nowlan will oversee 1200 nurses, and said the new hospital provided better care for children and their parents. Every room has an entertainment screen, parent's bed and ensuite, with every bed - including in emergency - having a point-of-care terminal so nurses do not have to go back to hubs to enter information. "The most fantastic thing about this hospital is having all clinical services together in one hospital under one roof, it is state-of-the-art," Ms Nowlan said. Exterior view of the new Lady Cilento Children's Hospital.