Skype your consultation
In an Institute first, Mr Glenn Bartlett was involved in a virtual Skype consultation. The patient’s partner was able to participate in the consultation using a computer and webcam over Skype. This allowed the patient to attend the consultation whilst her husband, who was several hundred kilometres away caring for their young children, was still able to be part of the consultative process.
No doubt with the advent of even newer methods of internet communications this type of process will become more common in the future and certainly we can see the advantages, particularly in allowing distant partners to be involved in consultations.
