Wiggs - we went through the RCH privately. The orth surgeon we used was Michael Johnson PM if you want his contact details. We found him to be vewry good, we used him with DD1, with DD2 we used our paed because it wasn't very severe but if DD2 wasn't responding quickly to treatment we would have gone back to Michael. My understanding is he actually does work in the public clinic as well. In terms of costs going privately you pay for the brace Pavlik was about $150, DB bar was $250 and that includes all app with Othotics then you pay for each visit to specialist (all specialists charge differently) and then you would pay for the ultrasounds, however sometimes these are bulk billed.

I don't know from experience but I had been told the wait to go public was about a month.