Teddy Bear Telehealth

Children are invited to join the sessions with their Teddy and a supervising parent or guardian, with each session including a mock-consultation on a different ailment or health concern – teddy might be feeling unwell, have a sore leg after a fall from their bike, have a sore ear, or maybe a strange looking spot.

With the assistance of our Teddy Doctors, children will learn more about ways to seek medical advice without coming to hospital, and become familiar with medical staff, equipment and terminology from the comfort of home.

In addition to educating young children and improving health literacy, these sessions will provide our medical students with an opportunity to improve their paediatric communication skills and teach families more about the opportunities telehealth provides.

Our Teddy Doctors are looking forward to meeting all our participating children and their teddies!

These sessions will be held via the easy and accessible Healthdirect platform, just like what you would use for an actual Telehealth consultation with our specialists at Grampians Health.

There will be two x 30 minutes sessions running across the two days.

Tuesday 20 September 2022

• Session 1: Teddy is feeling unwell at 10am
  Teddy might have a stomach ache, headache, be tired or feeling sick.
• Session 2: Teddy has a sore leg at 1pm
  Teddy had a fall from their bike and their leg is sore.

Wednesday 21 September 2022

• Session 3: Teddy has a sore ear at 10am
  Teddy has an ear ache that came on suddenly today.
• Session 4: Teddy has a funny looking spot at 1pm
  Teddy has a strange spot on his arm.

To register for a session please email teddybear@bhs.org.au indicating which session on which day you would like to attend and we will email you the details and link on how to join. It’s super easy and very user friendly.

We hope you can join us!