Starship Paediatric Rehabilitation Service

Public Service

Description

The Paediatric Rehabilitation Service provides a specialist tertiary level rehabilitation service for children and adolescents who have functional limitations as a result of injury or illness, to ensure they return to active participation in their home and the community. The service works collaboratively with the Child Rehabilitation Service at the Wilson Centre to provide a range of rehabilitation services to children and adolescents living throughout the Auckland region and New Zealand.

Who we are
The Paediatric Rehabilitation Service are a team of highly skilled professionals who work within an interdisciplinary model of care based around the child or adolescent's stage of rehabilitation, needs and goals.

Team members:

Rehabilitation Medicine Consultants
Dr Kathryn Edward (Clinical Lead)
Dr Eewei Lim

Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist
Rebecca Sugden

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dr Helen Temperton

Clinical Neuropsychologists
Dr Sanchia Logie

Occupational Therapist
Ashleigh Greyling

Physiotherapist
TBA

Speech and Language Therapist
Mandy Henderson

Referral Expectations

Referrals to the Paediatric Rehabilitation Service are accepted for children and adolescents living throughout New Zealand up to 15 years of age. Adolescents aged between 15 and 18 who are still at school can be referred for consultation. Paediatricians, Medical and Surgical Specialists and ACC Support Coordinators and Case Managers can refer to the service.

Rehabilitation services are provided for patients with the following conditions:

Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
Spinal Cord Injury and disease
Acquired neurological injury or illness e.g. Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Cerebral Palsy and other similar conditions

Services

Advisory Service

Specialist advice is provided to health professionals, current patients and their families, usually by telephone or email. More
Inreach Service

Patients are consulted or managed in a shared care arrangement in the acute inpatient setting in Starship Hospital.… More
Community Inpatient Service

The Community Inpatient service is delivered primarily by the Waitemata DHB multi-disciplinary Child Rehabilitation Service based at the Wilson Centre.… More
Reassessment Service

Reassessment services comprise non-inpatient services in the form of day stay, outpatient and outreach services.… More
Specialised Rehabilitation Programme

Specialist review of spasticity and movement disorders management including Botulinum toxin clinics. More