Telehealth: guides
There are a range of guides available to assist clinicians and service managers to understand the processes and supports required to implement, embed and sustain telehealth as an ongoing service delivery option.
A review of the evidence can also support this process.
Queensland Health
- Health Consumers Queensland: Queensland Digital Health Consumer Charter.
- Queensland Health Telehealth Service Guide (accessible by Queensland Health staff only).
Other agencies
- Ahpra & National Boards: Telehealth guidance for practitioners.
- Allied Health Professions of Australia (AHPA): Telehealth guide for allied health professionals.
- Australasian Telehealth Society: Guidelines for developing telehealth services.
- Commonwealth Government - Rural and remote:
- Digital Health CRC Telehealth Hub:
- NSW Government: Agency for Clinical Innovation.
- University of Queensland
- Victorian Government
Clinical
- Cancer
- Clinical Oncological Society of Australia: Clinical practice guidelines for teleoncology
- Child development
- The University of Sydney: Telepractice for children with complex disability. Guidelines for quality allied health services.
- Cognition, perception and memory
- Australian Dementia Network: COVID19 Using telehealth for Memory Clinic consultations advice sheet.
- NSW Government: Agency for Clinical Innovation: Supporting psychogeriatric services using telehealth.
- Communication and hearing
- National Centre for Hearing Assessment and Management Utah State University™: A practical guide to the use of tele-intervention in providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- LaTrobe University: Aphasia CRE resources.
- Diabetes
- Australian Diabetes Society: Telehealth guide during COVID-19.
- Pain management
- NSW Government - Agency for Clinical Innovation: Telehealth consultations with Aboriginal people for pain management.
- Respiratory
- NSW Government - Agency for Clinical Innovation: Delivering pulmonary rehabilitation via telehealth during COVID-19
- Stroke
- Swallow and oromotor
- Queensland Health (iLearn log in required): Telepractice Dysphagia Assessment Service
- Queensland Health (iLearn log in required): Telepractice for the delivery of paediatric feeding services
Professional
- Audiology
- Audiology Australia: Teleaudiology Position Statement
- Exercise Physiology
- Exercise and Sports Science Australia: Telepractice support
- Mental Health/ Psychosocial
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Dietitians Australia position statement
- Telehealth processes for dietitians. (accessible by Queensland Health staff only)
- Physiotherapy
- Australian Physiotherapy Association: Telehealth FAQs
- NSW Government - Agency for Clinical Innovation: Improving physiotherapy access using telehealth.
- Translating Research Evidence and knowledge (TREK): Musculoskeletal Telehealth Toolkit
- Podiatry
- Australian Podiatry Association: Telehealth for Podiatrists
- Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Therapy Australia: Telehealth Guidelines, Checklists and Consent form
- Optometry
- Pharmacy
- Speech Pathology
- Queensland Health (iLearn log in required): Telepractice Dysphagia Assessment Service
- Queensland Health (iLearn log in required): Telepractice for the delivery of paediatric feeding services
- Speech Pathology Australia
- Decision making framework for the introduction and sustainability of Adult Telepractice at Queensland Health facilities. (accessible by Queensland Health staff only).
If you know of any other useful resources that should be included in this database, please advise the Allied Health Professions’ Office of Queensland by email Allied_Health_Advisory@health.qld.gov.au.
Last updated: 23 November 2022
