Telehealth

Telehealth delivers health services using information and communication technologies, reshaping how Queensland Health provides care to rural and remote communities by bringing vital healthcare closer to home.

Our telehealth program:

• reduces travel disruption and costs, allowing patients to receive care without leaving their community, family and support networks.
• improves healthcare equity, ensuring rural and remote patients have access to the same specialist expertise as those in metropolitan areas.
• supports rural clinicians, providing access to professional development, peer support, and specialist advice from tertiary health centres.
• enables access to virtual clinic appointments, providing the same level of healthcare as an in-person appointment but from the comfort of the patient’s home.

Together, we’re making healthcare more accessible, connected, and equitable for all Queenslanders.