NSW Telestroke Service

The NSW Telestroke Service offers people living in regional and rural areas increased access to life-saving stroke diagnosis and treatment.

Introducing the NSW Telestroke Service

Stroke is an emergency. If you think you are having a stroke, call 000. Learn the F.A.S.T. signs of stroke

Improving access to stroke treatment

Stroke is a time-critical medical emergency. Patient outcomes are improved by timely access to specialist clinical diagnosis and management.

The NSW Telestroke Service connects local emergency doctors to specialist stroke physicians via video consultation. Determining a patient's stroke type and treatment options quickly is crucial and can be difficult outside of metropolitan areas. Telestroke removes these geographical barriers and improves outcomes for rural stroke patients, giving them a greater chance of surviving and leading a normal life.

The service is a collaboration between the Prince of Wales Hospital, eHealth NSW, the Agency for Clinical Innovation and the NSW Ministry of Health. It is based on a successful pilot at Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour, and will expand to up to 23 sites across NSW.

Valerie's life-saving Telestroke story

Broken Hill's Telestroke site is now live, to help people like Valerie who have a stroke in rural or regional areas of NSW.

New Telestroke sites to help people like Dawn

Telestroke is now live in the Blue Mountains and Lithgow to help people in rural and regional areas who have a stroke.

Joy's lifesaving NSW Telestroke Service story

More than 2,000 patients like Joy have benefited from time-critical stroke treatment in rural and regional NSW.

View all

Contact the Telestroke team

Email the NSW Telestroke Service at seslhd-nswtelestrokeservice@health.nsw.gov.au or find out more about the Stroke Network.
Back to top