If you live outside a capital city you may be eligible for Telehealth appointments. This means you can have an appointment via video conference instead of in person, saving you the time and expense of traveling to the city. To see if you live in an eligible area, refer to the
Telehealth eligible areas.
Edge Hill Clinic offers skype/telehealth consultations.
Patients in telehealth eligible areas of Australia can access specialist video consultations under Medicare, providing many patients with easier access to specialists, without the time and expense involved in travelling to major cities.
At the time of the video consultation, there must be 15 km by road between a patient and a specialist, consultant physician, or consultant psychiatrist.
Geographic eligibility for telehealth services is determined by the Australian Standard Geographical Classification – Remoteness Area (RA) classification, which is a numerical system between 1 and 5. A telehealth eligible area is outside of a major city (RA1).
Exceptions to this are where a patient is:
• living in an eligible residential aged care facility
• at an eligible Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS), or
• at an eligible Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS)
To be considered an eligible Aboriginal Medical Service or Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service, the practice must hold a current exemption granted under section 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
For more information in regards to Skype/Telehealth services at Edge Hill Clinic, please contact our receptionists on 07 4081 3088.
To make an appointment, you will first need a referral from your GP.
If you live in a rural or remote location, you may also be interested in these
online resources
which offer evidence-based therapy via the internet.