Allied Health

Allied Health is a Clinical Support Program of individual profession-managed allied health departments, with an appointed Chairperson. Departments within the Program are:

1. Audiology (AU)
2. Children's Cochlear Implant Centre (based at Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre (SCIC) at Gladesville)
3. Kid's Health
4. Nutrition & Dietetics (ND)
5. Occupational Therapy (OT)
6. Educational Play Therapy (EPL)
7. Music Therapy (MT)
8. Orthoptics (OP)
9. Orthotics (OR)
10. Pharmacy
11. Physiotherapy (PT)
12. Psychology (PS)
13. Social Work (SW)
14. Aboriginal Health Workers (AHEO)
15. Speech Pathology (SP)

Allied Health departments accept inpatient (I/P) and outpatient (O/P) referrals from all Doctors associated with the Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW).

Contacts

Allied Health Department Head of Department Front Desk Enquiries Front Desk Fax Audiology Rose Douglas 9845 2788 9845 2757 Cochlear Implants Children's Cochlear Implant Centre PO Box 188, Gladesville 2111 Chris Rehn 9844 6800 9844 6811 Kids Health Candace Douglass / Dushyanthi Vimalachandra 9845 3585 9845 3562 Nutrition & Dietetics Prue Watson 9845 2225 9845 2252 Occupational Therapy Alison Jones 9845 3369 9845 3685 Orthoptics Susan Silveira 9845 2270 9845 3949 Orthotics Sean Hogan 9845 3679 9845 3539 Pharmacy Penny Thornton 9845 2711 9845 2709 Physiotherapy Jenny Follett 9845 3369 9845 3685 Psychology Karen Munro 9845 2005 9845 2009 Play Therapy Sandra Pengilly 9845 3369 9845 3685 Social Work Lynette Biviano 9845 2641 9845 2633 Speech Pathology Jeanette Cowell 9845 2076 9845 2078

Allied Health clinicians assess and treat babies, children and adolescents according to need using a family centred focus.

• I/P clinicians cover all wards in the hospital.
• O/P clinicians provide therapy to the CHW local area. They also cover all the CHW O/P clinics as well as attending outreach clinics; and conduct home/pre-school/school visits as required.

Due to specialised equipment requirements AU, OP and OR are CHW based, though Orthoptics run screening clinics in SWAHS & SSWAHS (2 sites in conjunction with an Ophthalmologist). AU is the diagnostic service to all newborns referred from SWISH program for all of Western Sydney & 50% country NSW. CHW OR is the main Paediatric service for NSW for all levels of OR care. Modified barium swallows & soft palate studies are performed at CHW with SP and Radiology working together.