VOICeD Child Development – How Virtual Collaboration is Delivering Health Equity for Queensland Children

High developmental vulnerability exists throughout Queensland with disproportionate vulnerability occurring within our most rural and remote communities (more than 50 per cent). Access to tertiary-level developmental services is typically limited in these areas.

Children’s Health Queensland’s Child Development Services developed an innovative virtual telehealth service designed to bring specialist developmental services to communities. Clinical assessment and intervention are undertaken with shared expertise from the family, the local health providers and the specialist team to offer a best practice clinical service that offers health equity regardless of where the child and family live.