Exploring the experiences of staff conducting psychology consultations via telehealth in an oncology hospital.

Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth delivery of psychological care services expanded to meet the needs of people with cancer. This study examined psychologists' attitudes toward using telehealth during the pandemic peak in a tertiary oncology hospital.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten psychologists who used telehealth to deliver psychological services.

Integrating telehealth in to 'business as usual': Is it really possible?

The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, began offering web-based telehealth video consultation in 2011, with the principle being that telehealth should be integrated into 'business as usual'. In telehealth literature, key differences between telehealth and in-person consultations can make this hard to achieve, so an audit was performed that revealed many small gaps in the process.A total of 125 telehealth appointments were booked during the study period.

Data review of an ongoing telehealth programme in a tertiary paediatric hospital.

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne has been providing teleconsultations since 2011 using web-based videoconferencing. We reviewed telehealth activity over the first 30 months of the programme. The average consultation rate was 14 per month in 2012, 39 in 2013 and 49 per month in the first half of 2014.

The introduction of web-based video-consultation in a paediatric acute care setting.

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne has been providing web-based video-consultations for a range of paediatric sub-specialties since 2011. There were 346 video-consultations in the first 16 months, from a total of 65 clinicians. Most teleconsultations were with the family at home.

Health information seeking by parents in the Internet age.

Aim: Studies have shown increasing Internet use for health information. We aimed to broadly examine parents' utilisation of information sources for their children's health, their trust in them and to define the role of the Internet for children's health information

Methods: Interview of a convenience sample of parents of patients presenting to a tertiary paediatric emergency department (ED) (Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia) in 2006/2007.

Results: A total of 360 parents completed the interview.