The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Victoria plans to expand the telehealth program it established in January in partnership with Telstra Health to specialties including cardiology, respiratory medicine, psychiatry, rheumatology and gerontology following a successful roll out in the Kerang and surrounding regions back in January.

The service was piloted with diabetes patients who attend a local health centre for a remote video conference with an endocrinologist in Melbourne, with a diabetes nurse educator sitting in at the Kerang end.