The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Transition Support Service

For health professionals

All patients and families at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) have access to a purposeful, planned and early transition process.

For more information on how the Transition Support Service can assist patients receiving care at the RCH, please contact transition.support@rch.org.au.

For clinicians caring for patients with an intellectual disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder, the RCH has developed some helpful resources to assist:

Referring from RCH to Adult Hospitals
Hospital	Email	Phone	FAX	Note
Alfred Health	outpatient@alfred.org.au			visit site
Austin Health			9496 2097	Visit site
Barwon Health	ann.kissane@barwonhealth.org.au YATS@barwonhealth.org.au	4215 5314 0425 884 074		Runs one day a week.
Eastern Health			9839 6733	Visit referrals site
Monash Medical Centre	schospitalreferral@monashhealthorg; YATSReferrals@monashhealth.org	1300 342 273		Visit referrals site
Northern Health	NOT PREFERRED specialistclinics@nh.org.au		PREFERRED 8405 8616
St Vincent's Health				Referrals Form
Western Health all sites	referralmanagementJK@wh.org.au	8345 6490	8345 6856	Visit referrals site
Western Health- Endoscopy services		8345 6015	8345 7378	Visit site
Western Health- Women's & Children's Clinics	wandcclinics@wh.org.au	8345 1727	9055 2125	Women's referral site
				Children's referral site

Adolescent transition definition

"A purposeful, planned process that addresses the medical, psychosocial and educational/vocational needs of adolescents and young adults with chronic physical and medical conditions as they move from child centred to adult-oriented health care systems"