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Kids – Who Cares? Navigating Paediatric Admission from Emergency
This project aims to reduce the time children spend in Gosford Hospital emergency department once the decision to admit to the paediatric inpatient unit is made.
Added: 4 November 2022 | Last updated: 24 November 2022
Slide into Headspace DMs - Demand Management Strategy
This project considered issues contributing to long wait times and implemented service-wide interventions to enhance access to mental health support services for young people.
Added: 21 April 2022 | Last updated: 28 April 2022
Munchkin Right In: Access to paediatric magnetic resonance imaging
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is streamlining the referral, triage and booking processes to ensure timely access to magnetic resonance imaging scans for paediatric patients. The project aims to positively...
Added: 19 November 2021 | Last updated: 9 December 2021
Breaking Down Barriers: Improving Access to Paediatric Rehabilitation
This project implemented changes to improve the transfer of care from John Hunter Children’s Hospital to HNEkidsRehab, for paediatric patients who need specialist rehabilitation care.
Added: 18 April 2018 | Last updated: 21 October 2021
Storks
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network in partnership with HealthShare NSW is developing a standardised service delivery model for the safe, timely and efficient transport of newborn babies to appointments and back,...
Added: 24 April 2018 | Last updated: 9 June 2021
Improved Comprehensive Service for Adolescents who Re-present to the Emergency Department
This project has two objectives. Firstly, it is designed to improve the mental health service for adolescents who present to Lismore Base Hospital’s emergency department. Secondly, it is designed to...
Added: 22 April 2020 | Last updated: 14 May 2021
Healthy Lifestyles Project for newly arrived young people
This project addressed two significant gaps in service provision for newly arrived young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds: prevention of rapid weight gain during the settlement and post arrival...
Added: 4 March 2020 | Last updated: 20 April 2021
The Big Wee Problem at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network
This project utilises Clinical Redesign Methodology in a multifaceted approach to prevent post-operative urinary tract infections in our Network.
Added: 15 December 2020 | Last updated: 16 December 2020
Paediatric Access Support Service (PASS)
The Paediatric Access Support Service (PASS) aims to transfer patients to and from Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network inpatient settings efficiently. This would reduce associated workload, and improve the patient and...
Added: 28 August 2019 | Last updated: 29 August 2019
Breath of Fresh Air: Paediatric Long Term Ventilation
This project aims to provide a coordinated, equitable and integrated service for children requiring invasive long term ventilation, and their families. It also aims to support the needs of long...
Added: 4 December 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
Development After Infant Surgery Study
The Development After Infant Surgery (DAISy) study is the first of its kind in the world. It investigated neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants who had major surgery within the first 90...
Added: 2 November 2018 | Last updated: 19 November 2018
What a Difference a Date Will Make
Various services in the local area were concerned about the increase in young adolescents presenting in crisis, with either potential self-harm or harm to others. Police and ambulance workers were...
Added: 26 September 2018 | Last updated: 11 October 2018
When’s it my turn? The Maitland Hospital Paediatric Ambulatory Care Service
The project focuses on the referral, waitlist and appointment booking processes of the Maitland Hospital Paediatric Ambulatory Care Service to deliver timely, efficient and effective care to children.
Added: 27 August 2018 | Last updated: 30 August 2018
The Asthma Follow Up Integrated Care Initiative
Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick developed an integrated model of care for children with non-complex asthma, including care coordination, communication with general practitioners, parent education and emergency department resources and processes.
Added: 28 May 2018 | Last updated: 12 June 2018
Improving Provision of Skin-to-Skin Care in Preterm Neonates
John Hunter Children’s Hospital developed a step-by-step guide to encourage the delivery of Kangaroo Care to premature babies, and provided education to staff and parents on the topic.
Added: 2 May 2018 | Last updated: 16 May 2018
Central Line Infection Prevention in Newborns
RPA Hospital implemented an education, audit and training package for staff in its Newborn Care Unit, to reduce infections related to central line use in vulnerable newborns.
Added: 12 December 2017 | Last updated: 22 December 2017
Child-at-Risk Electronic Medical Record Alert
NNSWLHD developed a unique alert system for at-risk children and pregnant women that is integrated into the patient’s electronic medical record
Added: 25 August 2017 | Last updated: 11 September 2017
Improving Lumbar Puncture Success Rates in Febrile Neonates
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead developed and implemented an interdisciplinary lumbar puncture teaching package for Junior Medical Officers and nursing staff. The simulation-based teaching covered early stylet removal techniques, patient...
Added: 22 May 2017 | Last updated: 5 June 2017
The Grin and Grow Health Pathway
A new model of care was developed to provide preventive oral health care for children and young people in the Out of Home Care Health Pathway Program. The model includes...
Added: 14 March 2017 | Last updated: 28 April 2017
Waist Less: Part of the Sustainable Connections for Overweight and Obesity in Paediatrics Project
The Waist Less project aims to improve clinical processes and resources at the CHW, to increase the identification and management of children with obesity and their families. It is part...
Added: 18 April 2017 | Last updated: 28 April 2017