Child and youth health is unique and different. To acknowledge this Waikato District Health Board now has ‘Waikids’, a new name and a new look to unite all Waikato child and youth health services!

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The Child and Youth Health service is a dynamic forward-thinking department. Integration of care comes  from the community to acute care with good working relationships between professionals who continue to provide a child-friendly service. Our service comprises secondary and tertiary paediatric medical and surgical inpatient services (48 beds), acute and elective, and newborn intensive care (level 3 - 36 cots), with the retrieval and transfer of sick neonates by air.  We have a brand new Newborn Unit opened February 2009. We provide outpatient services for paediatric medicine and surgery (both secondary and tertiary) – region-wide (e.g. Tauranga, Thames etc). Paediatric surgery includes neonatal surgery and is the tertiary service for the Midland region. There is accreditation for paediatric surgical training. Waikids is a spectrum of services including Mothercraft, Child Development Centre, Children's Clinic, Mental Health services, Emergency Department, Child Protection Service, Oral Health, and inpatients. It involves all high quality services with specialist staff meeting the short term and chronic health and disability needs of children and their families. Who we are: Nine paediatricians with subspecialty interests (oncology, haematology, respiratory and CF, cardiology, behavioural and developmental, renal) Four neonatologists 10 medical registrars and three surgical registrars Seven medical SHOs and one surgical house officer

What is WaikidsWaikids launch invitation Waikids launch presentationThe health of children and young people with chronic conditions and disabilities in the Waikato

Opportunities for RMOs:

• Orientation at start of each run for RMOs
  
  
• Paediatric specific training: departmental teaching – case-based and topic-based, Journal Club & radiology conference. Access to tele-paeds teaching: weekly Starship Update and Starship Grand Round. (four-six hours/week)
  
  
• Support with Diploma of Child Health (Otago) or Diploma of Paediatrics (Auckland)
  
  
• FRACP preparation – access to tele-paeds weekly FRACP teaching
  
  
• Involvement with outpatient clinics – both SHOs and registrars
  
  
• Essential experience for anyone considering a future in General Practice, ED, sub-speciality surgeries (ENT, Orthopaedics, Plastics or Ophthalmology – as all have contact with children).

Media releases

• Working closer to protect children
  
• Reports paints picture of Waikato's youngest patients
  
• Waikids launch at Waikato Hospital

Waikids launch

Craig Climo and Tracy Jackson	L-R: Kay Montgomery, Ellyn Proffit, Tracy Jackson
Ruth Rhodes and Hayley Goodall	Hillcrest High School Junior Choir
Waikids launch	Ambassador Kay Gregory
L-R: Jan Adams, Craig Climo, Graeme Milne, David Newman, Hamish McCay, Phil Weston