Broome Health Campus has become the 75th site to have access to the Emergency Telehealth Service (ETS), which is significantly improving access to specialist emergency medicine support in rural and remote hospitals around Western Australia.
The introduction of ETS at Broome Health Campus will strengthen specialist support to staff treating critically injured and unwell patients.
Nurses and doctors in Broome can now instantly link to emergency medicine specialists in Perth, via videoconference, when they are treating seriously injured or acutely unwell patients.
Generalist trained doctors and nurses at Broome Health Campus routinely treat complex emergency presentations but the Emergency Telehealth Service provides them with additional support by giving them access to emergency trained specialists.
The ETS is made possible through the State Government’s Royalties for Regions Southern Inland Health Initiative, enabling Northern Regions to lever off investment made into the Southern Inland.
It has grown from a pilot program in eight Wheatbelt sites in 2012 to now being accessed in 75 towns across the State.