The newly opened Monash Children’s Hospital in Melbourne has launched a telesurgery service providing a direct video link between paediatric surgeons at the hospital and clinicians working in regional operating theatres and emergency departments in Gippsland.

The project will be delivered from Monash Children’s surgical telehealth centre, which is located with the hospital’s surgical simulation centre and operating suites, which will also be used to provide professional development to regional doctors remotely.