Virtual Emergency Department

Open: 7 days
(8am-10pm Monday to Sunday)

Patients

Please visit healthdirect to access this service.

The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.

healthdirect

DO NOT use the Virtual Emergency Care Service for the following medical problems:

Chest pain
Breathing problems or turning blue
Comatose or unconscious
Sudden inability to move or speak, or sudden facial drooping
The effects of a severe accident

In an Emergency
DIAL 000

GPs

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides GPs and other primary healthcare clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

It is a safe, fast and efficient way for you to consult with an emergency physician and use real-time technology to align treatment and ongoing services for your patient.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can visit healthdirect. The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.

QAS

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides QAS clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

Virtual Emergency Care Service is focussed on working with clinicians to extend the options available to patients who access healthcare through the QAS but may not require assessment or admission at an emergency department.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can visit healthdirect. The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.

Patients

You can use this service if you:

Live, are visiting or receive your treatment in Queensland
Have a device that can enable a telehealth consultation (video, audio, internet)
Can’t make an urgent appointment with a General Practitioner

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (patients)

DO NOT use the Virtual Emergency Care Service for the following medical problems:

Chest pain
Breathing problems or turning blue
Comatose or unconscious
Sudden inability to move or speak, or sudden facial drooping
The effects of a severe accident

In an Emergency
DIAL 000

GPs

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides GPs and other primary healthcare clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

It is a safe, fast and efficient way for you to consult with an emergency physician and use real-time technology to align treatment and ongoing services for your patient.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can contact the Virtual Emergency Care Service direct.

QAS

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides QAS clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

Virtual Emergency Care Service is focussed on working with clinicians to extend the options available to patients who access healthcare through the QAS but may not require assessment or admission at an emergency department.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can contact the Virtual Emergency Care Service direct.

Patients

Please visit healthdirect to access this service.

The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.

healthdirect

DO NOT use the Virtual Emergency Care Service for the following medical problems:

Chest pain
Breathing problems or turning blue
Comatose or unconscious
Sudden inability to move or speak, or sudden facial drooping
The effects of a severe accident

In an Emergency
DIAL 000

GPs

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides GPs and other primary healthcare clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

It is a safe, fast and efficient way for you to consult with an emergency physician and use real-time technology to align treatment and ongoing services for your patient.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

The Virtual Emergency Care Service is for Queensland GPs only.

This is a clinician only service. Patients can contact the Virtual Emergency Care Service direct.

QAS

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides QAS clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

Virtual Emergency Care Service is focussed on working with clinicians to extend the options available to patients who access healthcare through the QAS but may not require assessment or admission at an emergency department.

Virtual ED (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can contact the Virtual Emergency Care Service direct.

Patients

You can use this service if you:

Live, are visiting or receive your treatment in Queensland
Have a device that can enable a telehealth consultation (video, audio, internet)
Can’t make an urgent appointment with a General Practitioner

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (patients)

DO NOT use the Virtual Emergency Care Service for the following medical problems:

Chest pain
Breathing problems or turning blue
Comatose or unconscious
Sudden inability to move or speak, or sudden facial drooping
The effects of a severe accident

In an Emergency
DIAL 000

GPs

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides GPs and other primary healthcare clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

It is a safe, fast and efficient way for you to consult with an emergency physician and use real-time technology to align treatment and ongoing services for your patient.

Virtual Emergency Care
Service (clinicians)

The Virtual Emergency Care Service is for Queensland GPs only.

This is a clinician only service. Patients can visit healthdirect. The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.

QAS

The Virtual Emergency Care Service provides QAS clinicians with access to specialist emergency medicine assessment, by telephone or video conferencing.

Virtual Emergency Care Service is focussed on working with clinicians to extend the options available to patients who access healthcare through the QAS but may not require assessment or admission at an emergency department.

Virtual ED (clinicians)

This is a clinician only service. Patients can visit healthdirect. The site uses a symptom checker to understand your healthcare needs and links you to the service that is right for you.