Rural & regional
A country GP manages the same complex patients as a city one, with a fraction of the specialist and allied health workforce within reach. We do the finding, and bring the team to the patient instead.
Why it matters
It isn't only that there are fewer doctors. It's that the multidisciplinary team a complex patient needs is scattered across hundreds of kilometres, or simply isn't there.
lower life expectancy in remote areas than in major cities.
full-time-equivalent doctors per 100,000 people in very remote areas, against major cities.
the burden of disease carried in very remote areas compared with major cities.
What we do
Most platforms hand a practice an empty address book. For rural and regional practices we do the recruiting ourselves — the endocrinologist, the psychologist, the dietitian, the physiotherapist your patient needs and your town doesn't have — and we bring them into the conference by video.
The GP still convenes, still decides and still holds the relationship with the patient. Nobody drives four hours for a conversation, and nobody waits eight months for an outpatient appointment to have it.
How it runs
Any patient whose care spans more than one clinician. Chronic disease, mental health, post-surgical recovery, complex paediatrics.
We recruit from anywhere in Australia, then handle the invitations, consent and scheduling so your reception staff don't.
Thirty to forty minutes by video. You claim the GP case conferencing item, the specialists and allied health claim theirs, and the patient pays nothing.
Research
Case conferencing is an established model — the trials, reviews and cost analyses behind it are decades deep. What has barely been studied is what it does at distance: whether a country practice can assemble the team by video, what changes for the patient when it can, and what it costs. That is the question our work puts to the field, with rural clinicians and rural academic partners.
Compass Conference 2026
Shared care across distance, broadened from mental health to chronic disease for the Territory's primary care audience — accepted for Compass NT 2026 under the theme 'Changing Territory: Sustainable, Smart and Responsive Primary Care'.
Rural Medicine Australia 2026
A 30-minute paper in the RMA26 academic program on what changes for a rural practice when the specialist and allied health team can be brought to the patient by video.
Rural Mental Health Conference 2026
Shared mental health care across rural distance: what a digital coordination platform changed for communication, treatment plans, role clarity and clinician burden across sites in Western Australia.
If the clinician your patient needs isn't on the platform yet, that is our job to fix — not a reason to tell a rural practice no.
Get in touch
Send us the disciplines your town is missing and our team will start recruiting. No cost to the practice.