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Telehealth has addressed this issue with demonstrable benefits such as a reduction in costs to patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title><jats:p>To explore the patient satisfaction of telehealth in Australia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients from all around Australia, including Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Australian Capital Territory and even Western Australia were referred to a Sydney\u2010based neurologist. After their initial face to face consultation, review consultations were performed by telehealth. All had chronic diseases (trigeminal neuralgia, facial pain or Parkinson disease) and received a standardised questionnaire comprising of demographics, satisfaction of technical aspects and quality of the consultation. 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