GPs are the key to support continuity of care services – so what happens when you can’t find one, a common experience in regional and remote areas? Many patients will end up falling through the cracks – and only be ‘caught’ when they end up in a hospital bed.

With regional areas home to an increasingly ageing population, is this one solution to ensuring Baby Boomers can age in place with access to specialist services?

For close to a decade, the Greenwich and Far West Telehealth Chronic Pain Service, operated by HammondCare, has ensured that thousands of people living with chronic pain in the NSW Far West are receiving early intervention to stay out of hospital – with shorter wait times for specialists than many metropolitan areas.

Led by rehabilitation and pain specialist Dr Amanda Johns, the servic