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Healthdirect offering Video Call for free to GPs in drought-affected regions

16 January 2019
By Kate McDonald

Healthdirect Australia is offering its WebRTC-based Video Call service at no charge to GPs who wish to access new telehealth MBS items to support the mental health of their patients in drought-affected communities.

The federal government introduced new items on the MBS on November 1 that allow GPs located in rural and remote regions to deliver focused psychological help to patients in drought-affected areas by video conference.

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