Departmental Overview 

The Allied Health Service Unit at Perth Children’s Hospital delivers inpatient and outpatient services to children from birth to 16 years and is composed of

• Audiology
• Child Protection Unit (Allied Health)
• Newborn Hearing Screening Program
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Occupational Therapy (including Play Services and Music Therapy)
• Orthotics
• Pastoral Care
• Physiotherapy
• Social Work (including Aboriginal Liaison Officers and Language Services)
• Speech Pathology

Allied Health conducts research as an individual department and/or in partnership with other allied health services and/or with CAHS Medical and Surgical specialties and/or other services and organisations including universities.

Current Allied Health Research Projects

Survey of all PCH Allied health staff via use of the Research Capacity and capacity tool

This survey was developed by Griffiths University and Queensland Health in 2012. The results at PCH demonstrated a strong motivation to undertake research (80%) as well as barriers that primarily related to limited time and resources. Allied health is developing pathways to improve support for research from the conception of an idea.

• Participation and engagement (e.g. Tube Feed Weaning: Connecting to Disconnect – Development, implementation and evaluation of a Tube Feed Weaning clinical practice guideline) 
• Trauma informed care (e.g. Evaluation of a Psychosocial Parent Group for Children Newly Diagnosed with Cancer) 
• Systematic Review of intervention and management of Children and Adolescents with Functional Disorders.