Taree · Manning Valley · Telehealth
Telehealth Dietitian for Taree & the Manning Valley
Video appointments with Accredited Practising Dietitians for Taree, Wingham and the Manning Valley — private, and without a two-hour drive.
How we see Taree clients: by telehealth only. Ausclin’s rooms are in Mount Hutton and we do not run a clinic in Taree, so every Taree appointment is a video consultation. Medicare and private health rebates apply on the same basis as an in-person visit.
Privacy, in a place where people know each other
This is the reason Manning Valley clients most often give us, and it is worth saying plainly: in a smaller community, being seen walking into a particular clinic carries information you may not want to share.
For eating disorders especially, but also for anything to do with weight, fertility or mental health, that matters. A video appointment from your own home has no waiting room, no car park, and nobody to run into. Several of our clients chose telehealth for exactly that reason before distance ever entered the conversation.
Where our Manning Valley clients are
Taree, Wingham, Cundletown, Old Bar, Hallidays Point, Harrington, Coopernook, Lansdowne, Krambach, Nabiac, Gloucester, and across to Forster and Tuncurry.
The Manning Valley is spread out and largely rural, and a single appointment can mean an hour of driving before you have gone anywhere useful. Taree to Newcastle is around two hours each way.
Rural and farm households
A fair share of our Manning Valley work is with farming and rural households, where the day is not organised around appointment slots. Seasonal work does not pause for a 20-minute review, and driving to Newcastle in the middle of it is not realistic.
Video appointments fit into that better: early, late, or from the ute if that is what the day allows. We would rather see you in a paddock than not see you at all.
How telehealth works, and what it costs
Do you come to Taree?
No. We do not run a Taree clinic and we do not travel to the Manning Valley. All Taree appointments are by video. Our rooms in Mount Hutton are open if you would prefer to be seen in person, but that is roughly a two-hour drive each way.
Is a telehealth dietitian covered by Medicare?
Yes, on the same basis as an in-person appointment. If your GP prepares a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan, Medicare item 10954 currently rebates $63.40 per session for up to five allied health sessions per calendar year, and the session must run at least 20 minutes. Eating disorder arrangements allow considerably more. You can check the pathways with our Medicare Eligibility Checker.
Does telehealth actually work for dietetics?
It suits dietetics better than most clinical work. There is no physical examination in a standard dietitian appointment — it is conversation, history, food patterns, planning and review. A video call loses very little of that, and it gains something: we can see your kitchen, your pantry, the labels on the products you actually buy, which is often more useful than anything that happens in a consulting room.
Will anyone local know I am seeing a dietitian?
Not from us. There is no waiting room and no local premises. We correspond with your GP only with your consent, and you decide who else is told. Your records are kept confidentially under Australian privacy law, the same as any health service.