Online-only GPs targeted under medical board’s proposed crackdown
The RACGP president says the suggested changes are ‘commonsense’
Telehealth corporates face a potential clampdown after the Medical Board of Australia put out draft guidelines warning GPs not to rely on text or email consultations for first-time patients.
The board is consulting on updates to its telehealth guidelines, which have not been touched since 2012 — almost a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the role of telehealth in Australia.
