A NEW telehealth travel medicine service has launched in NSW, teaming up with pharmacies across the state to improve access to high-quality pre-travel healthcare.
Glide Online Travel Clinic is working with pharmacies to provide immediate access to travel doctors for people anywhere in the state, helping people protect themselves as well as their communities at home from communicable diseases, such as measles.
Telehealth consultations with travel doctors enable travellers to obtain a comprehensive pre-travel medical assessment; electronic prescriptions for immunisations, anti-malarials and other medications; written travel-related medical advice delivered securely to their inbox; medical letters for customs officials to cover prescription medications; and recommendations for pharmacies in their local area.
They can then visit their pharmacy for administration of travel vaccinations, medication pick-up, and access to other travel-related products, such as insect repellent, oral-rehydration salt tablets and other over-the-counter medications.
Glide is led by Dr James Knox, an Australian specialist in infectious diseases with a Diploma in Tropical Medicine, with Glide doctors living in and working from Queensland, NSW and Victoria.
With the recent announcement of pharmacist-delivered travel vaccinations in South Australia (PD 07 Feb), Glide Online Travel Clinic plans to provide services there in the near future.
The expansion of the service is then anticipated to continue in line with the roll-out of pharmacy-delivered travel vaccinations around the country.
Jason Harvey of CP Peoples Chemist in Broken Hill, said: "People in the far west love to travel, but it can often be weeks before you are able to get in and see a GP to access the medications you might need.
"Access to fast and efficient telehealth is an easy way to help us visit the rest of the world." KB
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