Armidale Rural Referral Hospital is a 99 bed rural referral hospital within the Hunter New England Local Health District. It is the referral centre for the Northern Tablelands for non-tertiary care to NSW. The Hospital provides acute health care services to residents of Armidale and surrounding towns: Uralla, Kentucky, Wollomombi & Hillgrove. The Hospital is also a referral centre for hospitals in Guyra, Glen Innes, Inverell, Emmaville and Tenterfield to the north and Walcha to the south. The nearest referral hospital is Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital, 110 kms south.

The Paediatric Unit has 8 beds with over 700 admissions per year. Outreach clinics are provided locally from John Hunter Children's Hospital and Sydney Children's Hospital for Oncology, Diabetes and Respiratory. The Hospital provides a Level 4 child protection and sexual assault service. One of the local Paediatricians provides outreach clinics in Glen Innes, Inverell and Moree as well as at the local Narwan Aboriginal Centre.

In this region the Child, Young Person and Family Service consists of Child and Family Health Nursing Services (including Families NSW and Parenting Education), Genetic Counselling from Tamworth, PANOC Child Protection Counselling, Child, Adolescent and Family Counselling (Psychologists, Social Worker and Welfare Officer), Speech Pathology Services, Community Midwife (Pregnancy Care Program-Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Strategy), Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services. Audiometry Services and Immunisation Services are provided by community nurses working in collaboration with the paediatric staff from Child and Family.

These professionals provide a variety of child and family health services (including assessment, therapy and counselling) to children, adolescents (aged 0-18 years) and their families who live in the Armidale, Uralla and Guyra areas.