Is this a health minister’s dream — an Australian medical clinic with no doctors?
Patients do their own ECGs at an unstaffed medical facility which will be evaluated to determine if it's value for taxpayers' money.
The Federal Government has finally succeeded in helping to deliver what you suspect is every health minister’s secret dream — a medical clinic with no doctors or health staff.
Based in the town of William Creek in SA, it’s 24/7, walk-in, walk-out, but with patients doing their own blood pressures, oxygen readings and ECGs.
The DIY medicine starts with an intercom button the patient presses on the side of the building for a video consult with a doctor located some 850km away in Adelaide.
Inside the facility are various medical devices which transmit images for the on-call doctor, allowing for wound assessments, dermatology imaging, and throat and dental examinations.
