Virtual Specialist Consults (VSC) is an alternative to specialist clinic referrals. This statewide service offers timely specialist expertise for complex patients in the community.
Virtual Specialist Consults (VSC) is an alternative to outpatient referrals. VSC can support complex patients in the community to strengthen continuity of care and help ease pressure on specialist clinic departments across Victoria.
Available for all Victorians, the VSC service is supported by the Department of Health and delivered by Northern Health.
Specialist consults available through VSC
VSC offers the following consult types:
- Case Conferences that involve the referring clinician, a VSC specialist, and an additional healthcare provider
- Co-consults that involve the referring clinician, patient, and VSC specialist.
- Direct Patient Consults that involve the patient and VSC specialist only (availability varies by specialty).
- eConsults provide GPs with the option to send a clinical question to our specialists with a 3-day turnaround. This is intended for non-complex issues.
If you believe your patient might be suited for VSC, book a consult.
Services and clinics available through VSC
VSC offers consults in the following adult specialties:
- Advance Care Planning
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology & Diabetes
- Gastroenterology
- General medicine
- Geriatrics (Aged Care)
- Haematology (Clinical Haematology) and Thrombosis
- Infectious Diseases (including Latent TB)
- Nephrology (Renal)
- Neurology (including Epilepsy & Stroke)
- Ophthalmology
- Palliative Care
- Physiotherapy (Musculoskeletal)
- Psychiatry (Adult & Older Adult)
- Respiratory
- Rheumatology
- Sexual Health (HIV/Mpox diagnostics)
- Women's Health (MTOP, Contraception, Menopause)
- Wound Care (Arterial, Venous, Diabetic Foot, Lymphoedema)
VSC offers consults in the following paediatric specialties:
- Allergy
- Asthma
- Complex Adolescents
- Continence
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- ENT (Pre and Post Surgery)
- General Paediatrics
- Respiratory & Sleep
Contact VSC
Contact Northern Health for enquiries and assistance with VSC.
Email vsc@nh.org.au