RCH access for community healthcare providers

Kids Connect is dedicated to supporting RCH and community healthcare professionals work together better for the improved health care of children in Victoria. Kids Connect is the RCH Primary Care Liaison / GP Liaison programme.

Need paediatric clinical advice?

Call 9345 7060 the RCH GP Quick Access line.   All general clinical enquiries should go to the Emergency Department.   If you need to speak with a speciality unit, please tell Switch which specialty you need, the urgency of your query (eg next 2 hours, today, within 24 hours) and a number you can be contacted on for that time frame.  If very urgent, switch can attempt to connect you directly.

How do I refer to the RCH?

Please see the Specialty services page for referral form, information on referral process, Clinical Services Directory and Pre-referral guidelines.

Who do I call?

Direct to Departments

Clinicians may be contacted via Switchboard (03) 9345 5522 or see contact details for individual departments:

• Allergy and Immunology
• Audiology
• Burns Unit
• Cardiac Surgery
• Cardiology
• Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH)
• Centre for Community Child Health
• Children's Cancer Centre
• Children's Epilepsy Program
• Clinical Haematology
• Dermatology
• Developmental Medicine
• Diabetes
• Endocrinology & Diabetes
• Gait Laboratory
• Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition
• General Medicine
• Gynaecology
• Mental Health
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neuroscience Unit
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedics
• Otolaryngology (ENT)
• Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Respiratory Medicine
• Rheumatology
• Speech Pathology
• Urology
• Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Services
• Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program
• Wadja Aboriginal Family Place

• All RCH Departments

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