in regional and rural Australia, enhance the skills of clinicians and practitioners, and increase the confidence of providers and parents in care closer to home. [...] The supported consultation for specialist appointments offers continuity of care and The opportunity and appetite to strengthen primary care an opportunity for primary health providers to practice systems has been demonstrated in the UK Connecting more confidently in areas of health care they may not be Care for Children initiative and the Strengthening Care for regularly exposed to (Knight et al.. [...] The benefits of embedding secondary of telehealth, the benefits of specialist knowledge and and specialist paediatric expertise within primary health the continuity of care from primary care providers who settings included: can continue to provide person-centred, comprehensive • enhancing the quality of primary care and coordinated health care to children and families in their communities. [...] Specialist telehealth and support to enable healthcare staff to develop the focused on resourcing and supporting primary care offers necessary technical, inter-personal and clinical skills, opportunities to improve the quality of local primary health including the provision of peer support and education in regional and rural Australia and enhance children’s health for working effectively with fami. [...] This model would • Research: high quality research is required to evaluate link primary and secondary care, and create opportunities the feasibility and acceptability of telehealth models for specialists to support and grow the skills of primary care of care that embed secondary and specialist expertise clinicians and develop relationships that would otherwise within primary health environments, a.
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