New model to help solve the rural GP crisis at Eden's Curalo Medical Clinic

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00:00 So we're moving full steam ahead for takeover of the Corello Clinic.

00:05 We're here today to accept a generous donation from Morgan's to support us with our doctor

00:14 recruitment and this is an interesting and innovative idea.

00:18 So we, the funding that Morgan's are going to provide us will support us to bring in

00:24 what we're calling connected clinicians.

00:26 To bring in a doctor physically it could take quite some time, we're doing our best, we're

00:31 trying lots of innovative ways to make Eden look attractive for a doctor to move to our

00:37 area, but we can activate this connected clinician straight away.

00:42 We can bring in or engage doctors anywhere within Australia to support our patients at

00:50 the Corello Clinic and there won't just be doctors on the phone, sorry on screen, we're

00:56 going to provide a support team around the patient when they come in to our clinic and

01:01 they can have the usual treatment as if they were meeting a doctor in physical form.

01:06 They will get supported, a nurse will take them in, they will take their vitals, they

01:10 will then support the technology, they will be there with the patient while the patient

01:17 is talking to the doctor online, so they can, the nurse will have an idea of what's happening

01:22 with that patient and then they'll support them when they finish with that doctor and

01:27 then any follow-ups that they need.

01:30 We've had a couple of meetings with Damien and April and Belinda and they explained their

01:34 vision for the Corello Clinic in Eden and we were really impressed with their organisation

01:40 and their energy and we think that everyone has a right to see a GP in their local area

01:46 and it was something that we could easily get behind.

01:49 So it's in, I guess, joint partnership with the Morgans Foundation in Brisbane and they

01:53 match dollar for dollar whatever our office will donate and we're always looking for good

01:59 projects and this one we're really excited about and really happy to get behind.

02:05 Now I grew up in the country, I know what it's like to not have access to medical and

02:09 health and how important it is and how the stats show that in fact the country people

02:15 have worse health outcomes than city folk.

02:18 We have such less choice and such less ability to actually access what's around.

02:24 Having had cancer last year I know what it's like to have to travel long distances.

02:27 The whole concept is fantastic and Eden really needs something like this.

02:34 It's got very few resources but I think it's going to be one of those really from little

02:38 things big things are going to grow.

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