The author was engaged by CARHS to "Review the role of community paediatrics in the context of a primary health care team defining and distinguishing this from a hospital services role with definitive objectives and performance indicators, identifying resources available to the Community Paediatric Team and ensuring coordination with other remote health services." This has been interpreted as a review of the outreach community paediatric service operating out of the Central Australian Outreach Remote Health Service (CARHS) and of necessity included inquiry about the related paediatric outreach service of Alice Springs Hospital (ASH).