The Alice Springs Hospital Paediatrics Department provides a high quality paediatric care for children and families in Central Australia.

Inpatient unit services

Inpatient care occurs on a 30-bed paediatric ward with support from a mixed Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. The majority of admitted patents are Aboriginal children from remote communities presenting with a variety of medical care needs. The primary referral centre for escalation of care and advice is the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and we are supported for retrieval by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and Medstar Kids.

Neonatal care occurs on 8-bed neonatal nursery. Primary neonatal referral centre is Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. We keep children >32 weeks gestation and 1500g routinely and >30 weeks gestation and 1000g based on risk/benefit assessment of transfer. We have capacity for short term ventilation of patients (24-48 hours)

Outpatient services

General paediatric clinics are run daily by registrar and consultant staff and contain a mix of medical and behavioural consultations.

There are a range of developmental clinics under the paediatrics umbrella which include:

• Out of home care clinic.
• Multidisciplinary autism and developmental assessment clinic – Child development team.
• Multidisciplinary FASD and developmental assessment clinic – Central Australian Aboriginal Congress.
• Feeding clinic.
• Acute behavioural clinic.

Outreach services are provided to 27 remote communities throughout Central Australia.

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Emal James Dowler at James.Dowler@nt.gov.au, we are very happy to discuss with trainees training options, and work and life balance living in Alice Springs.