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Starship Paediatric Rehabilitation Service
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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
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Advisory Service
Specialist advice is provided to health professionals, current patients and their families, usually by telephone or email. More
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Inreach Service
Patients are consulted or managed in a shared care arrangement in the acute inpatient setting in Starship Hospital.… More
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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
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Reassessment Service
Reassessment services comprise non-inpatient services in the form of day stay, outpatient and outreach services.… More
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Specialised Rehabilitation Programme
Specialist review of spasticity and movement disorders management including Botulinum toxin clinics. More
Other
Information for patients and families
Resources for patients and families including a video tour of the Wilson Centre.
Website
Contact Details
Starship Child Health, Central Auckland
Central Auckland
Phone
(09) 307 4949 ext 22651
Email
Website
Wilson Centre for Children, Takapuna, Auckland
North Auckland
Phone
(09) 488 4688
Email
Website
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This page was last updated at 4:01PM on December 22, 2020. This information is reviewed and edited by Starship Paediatric Rehabilitation Service.