{"id":1874,"date":"2021-03-17T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T00:18:34","slug":"a-stepped-care-approach-to-developmental-care-improving-intake-processes-for-children-referred-with-a-developmental-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2021\/03\/17\/a-stepped-care-approach-to-developmental-care-improving-intake-processes-for-children-referred-with-a-developmental-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stepped Care Approach to Developmental Care \u2013 Improving intake processes for children referred with a developmental concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/528086795?speed=0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Stepped Care Approach to\u00a0Developmental\u00a0Care\u00a0is a Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation funded project which aims to ensure that children referred with a developmental concern are seen by the right person in the right place at the right time.\u00a0 To achieve this a new Allied Health centralised intake team apply a stepped approach\u00a0that identifies the child\u2019s needs and pathway.\u00a0 In this Grand Rounds we will show how a focus on thorough\u00a0clinical triage\u00a0has already had an impact on the children and families that have been referred to RCH with a developmental concern and assisted RCH clinicians who provide care for those children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernadette O\u2019Connor <\/strong>has been the Director Allied Health since 2011, prior to which she was head of Speech Pathology at RCH. Bernadette is the Project Lead for A Stepped Care Approach to Developmental.\u00a0 Bernadette has worked for 39 years in public and private clinical speech pathology and leadership roles. She is passionate about promoting Allied Health services to enhance, improve and ensure safer and higher quality paediatric healthcare. She is also passionate about providing services to enhance the life prospects of children who experience disadvantage and developmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Greaves <\/strong>is the Manager of Occupational Therapy, and joined RCH as a clinician 22 years ago. Sue\u2019s clinical passion has been for children with developmental concerns, and in particularly children with neurological problems. \u00a0Her PhD is on developing an upper limb assessment for young babies with unilateral cerebral palsy. As well as her management role, Sue undertakes research and provides clinical services for young children with neurological and developmental problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrienne Fosang<\/strong> is a senior physiotherapist with 30 years\u2019 experience at RCH. She has worked as a clinician and team leader in the acute, community, rehabilitation and gait laboratory settings with a focus on children with neurodevelopmental disability.\u00a0 She has a Masters in the use of Botulinum Toxin for children with cerebral palsy and is passionate about focusing interventions on goals that are meaningful for children and families. The Stepped Care project is a natural extension of this with its focus on matching family needs with service provision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cath Laird<\/strong> is a Project and Improvement Manager at RCH, and has managed change programs within the hospital over the last 3 years, including the project discussed today. Cath has completed a Masters of Applied Science at RMIT specialising in innovation and change management and over the last 10 years has worked in change and improvement roles in both the private and public sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stepped Care Approach to\u00a0Developmental\u00a0Care\u00a0is a Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation funded project which aims to ensure that children referred with a developmental concern are seen by the right person in the right place at the right time.\u00a0 To achieve this a new Allied Health centralised intake team apply a stepped approach\u00a0that identifies the child\u2019s needs and pathway.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15583,466,7946,7958,7930,9824,7949,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-health","category-clinical","category-developmental-medicine","category-disabilities","category-general-interest","category-immigrant-health","category-paediatrics","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}