Children's Specialist Clinics and Adolescent Health Service

Our clinics and services provide care for children and adolescents.

Our clinics and services include:

Allied Health clinics 

For hips, hand therapy, dietetics and autism assessment.

Children's Allergy Clinic 

For allergies including food allergies, insect allergies, eczema and asthma.

Endocrine clinics 

For children who need assessment and management of actual, or suspected paediatric and adolescent endocrine conditions:

1. General Paediatric Endocrinology Clinic: for children up to 17 years of age with general paediatric endocrinology conditions that require a paediatric or adolescent endocrinologist.

2. Young Adult Diabetes Service (YADS): a multidisciplinary clinic for young people between 15 to 25 years of age with diabetes mellitus.

Medical clinics

For general medical follow up including newborns who spent time in the Special Care Nursery, and neurology.

Paediatric Behavioural and Developmental Clinics 

For children up to 17 years of age who: 

• have been identified with delays in development
• have symptoms that indicate possible Autism Spectrum Disorder
• have challenging behaviours that require assessment, evaluation and management. 

Specialist Cardiology Clinic services 

For patients up to 17 years of age who require specialised assessment and management of actual, or suspected heart disease. The clinics are facilitated by Paediatric Cardiologists.

Specialist Paediatric Growth and Nutrition clinic 

For patients up to 17 years of age who require assessment and management of feeding and eating difficulties including feeding tube dependence resulting in growth delay or nutritional deficiency. The clinic is facilitated by a multidisciplinary paediatric team comprised of a Paediatrician, Dietitian and Speech Pathologist.

Surgical clinics 

For general surgical, orthopaedics (fractures), plastic surgery, and Ear, Nose and Throat surgery.

Our Children's Specialist Outpatient Clinics and Adolescent Health Service provides care for children and young people aged between 0-18 years. We also see young adults (between 15 and 25 years old) in our Young Adults Diabetes Service (YADS).

A GP referral is required for the majority of our children's and adolescent outpatient clinics 

Maternal and Child Health Nurses and Teachers may refer to some services.

Children's Referrals

Phone: (03) 8345 1616 / (03) 8345 1618

Fax: (03) 9055 2125