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:

Model of Care for patients with intellectual disability and/or autism with MH co-morbidities
Adult services information for Young Adults with Complex disabilities.

Referring from RCH to Adult Hospitals
Hospital	Email	Phone	FAX	Note
Alfred Health	outpatient@alfred.org.au			visit site
Austin Health	erin.gallagher@austin.org.au		9496 5267	Visit site
Barwon Health	ann.kissane@barwonhealth.org.au YATS@barwonhealth.org.au	4215 5314 0430 342 584
Eastern Health	https://redcap.link/ehasc
Monash Medical Centre	New Link	1300 342 273		Visit referrals site Referral must contain a PDF document with all patient contact information.
Northern Health	NOT PREFERRED specialistclinics@nh.org.au		PREFERRED 8405 8616
St Vincent's Health			9231 3489	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
Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Women's Hospital Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre				Send order through EPIC to relevant department. (RMH/RWH/PMCC)

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"