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The “Leveraging northern Queensland (NQ) telehealth experience for contextually informed process guidelines to optimise health service access, quality and safety in rural and remote Australia project” (GNT2032671), is also known as the NQ Telehealth Project.
Telehealth has evolved in NQ out of necessity to meet the health needs of our culturally diverse and geographically distributed communities. Despite the longevity of telehealth in our region, there is a lack of clarity about the markers of safe and quality delivery of care. The NQ Telehealth Project aims to optimise the quality (including accessibility) and safety (including cultural safety) of health care for rural, remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in the region by optimising the use of telehealth as part of health care delivery.
The five-year project is being led by James Cook University and has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
Formal project partners are:
- James Cook University (JCU)
- Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC)
- Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS)
- Townsville Hospital and Health Service (THHS)
For more information contact: [email protected]