Expanding Access to Addiction Medicine Specialist Care in Regional New South Wales, Australia Through Telehealth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Australians in regional areas face substantial barriers accessing alcohol and other drug specialist medical care. This study observed a newly implemented telehealth model of public addiction medicine specialist care, the TeleHUB model, in two regional New South Wales (NSW), Australia Local Health Districts: Murrumbidgee and Western NSW. A shared-care approach was employed; a metropolitan hospital (St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney) acted as a central coordinating service for providing additional (Murrumbidgee, commencing August 2019) or fly-in-fly-out replacement (Western NSW, commencing February 2021) telehealth consultations by an addiction medicine specialist, while local services provided in-person support.

Methods

Interrupted time series analysis examining chan

SUBMITTER: Smylie CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12834616 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature