The organisation of cleft lip and palate. Services in Perth and Auckland.

At the beginning of 1990, I had the opportunity to visit Perth, Western Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. My aim was to find out how the care of children born with clefts of the lip and palate was organised. In Britain, the organisation of care varies widely and has developed where there are specialists who have an interest in this subject. In both Perth and Auckland, care is centralised and both centres care for large numbers of patients.