An Australian telehealth clinic
Telehealth clinic for Yeppoon, QLD
AHPRA-registered Clinicians for patients in Yeppoon, by secure video or telephone, under the QLD rules set out below.
Yeppoon by telehealth
LeafLine Clinic holds consultations with patients located in Yeppoon by secure video or telephone, with AHPRA-registered Clinicians and no referral needed. Yeppoon is on the Capricorn Coast, east of Rockhampton. On the ABS's preliminary estimate for June 2025, 22,522 people live in the Yeppoon urban area, about 9.5 per cent more than in 2021.
The drive from Yeppoon to Brisbane is about 670 kilometres, which takes around 9 hours. At that distance an appointment in Brisbane is an overnight trip or a flight.
What Queensland law adds for patients in Yeppoon
Queensland adds no state approval for an adult in this kind of care. The approval your Clinician applies for is the federal one, and Queensland’s control sits in the monitoring duty instead.
Section 41 of the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld) requires the prescriber to check QScript before every monitored prescription, and your Clinician records the result in your file.
The federal side is the same everywhere. Our guide to getting a prescription through SAS-B explains the TGA approval, and if you are moving from another clinic, the Queensland changing-clinics page covers what transfers and what does not.
How a consultation works from Yeppoon
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Check your eligibility
The eligibility questionnaire is confidential and comes before any booking or payment. LeafLine Clinic consults with adults only, aged 18 and over.
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Book video or telephone
Video works on a phone, tablet or computer. Where the connection is unreliable, a telephone consultation needs nothing more than reception, which makes it a workable option anywhere around Yeppoon. Support and bookings run 9am to 7pm local time, year round.
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What to have ready
Keep your Medicare card, your home address and a list of what you currently take, with doses, within reach. Letters or results from other practitioners help if you have them. A closed room or a parked car gives you the privacy the conversation needs.
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After the consultation
A consultation does not end in a prescription by default. If the Clinician considers a treatment appropriate and it needs a TGA approval, they lodge a Category B application in their own name, together with any QLD application, and wait for both before prescribing. Later reviews follow the same video or telephone format.
Yeppoon's Primary Health Network
The Primary Health Network for Yeppoon is Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN. A PHN is a regional body funded by the Australian Government that commissions primary care services rather than providing consultations. LeafLine Clinic is a private telehealth clinic with no link to any PHN.
If you want local services alongside a telehealth Clinician, including a regular GP, the PHN's website is where to start looking.
Next steps from Yeppoon
Nearby town pages
- Rockhampton about 35 km away
- Gladstone about 95 km away
- Bundaberg about 250 km away
- Emerald about 270 km away
Questions from Yeppoon
Can I see a Clinician by telehealth in Yeppoon?
Yes, by video or telephone from wherever you are in Yeppoon. LeafLine Clinic's Clinicians are AHPRA-registered, there is no referral requirement, and a confidential eligibility questionnaire comes before any booking.
Which rules apply to a patient in Yeppoon?
The Queensland rules, because state and territory law sets the approval and monitoring layer. The QLD approval position is: None for adults; the federal approval only. Your Clinician also checks QScript before prescribing.
What hours can I reach LeafLine from Yeppoon?
Support and bookings run 9am to 7pm Melbourne time, seven days a week, which is 9am to 7pm local time, year round.
Do I need to travel from Yeppoon at any point?
No. LeafLine Clinic has no consulting rooms, so every consultation and review is held by video or telephone wherever you are in Queensland. For reference, Yeppoon is about 670 kilometres by road from Brisbane.
Sources for this page
- Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population 2024-25, data cube 32180DS0004, Table 2 (Significant Urban Areas), released 31 March 2026, fetched 16 October 2026. June 2025 figures are preliminary.
- Primary Health Network boundaries: Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, and the PHNs’ own published catchments, checked 16 October 2026.
- Road distances and drive times: OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap data, computed 16 October 2026 and rounded. Real trips vary with route and conditions.
- QLD rules: summarised from our Queensland changing-clinics page, verified against state legislation and health department guidance in September 2026.
General information, not medical or legal advice. Anything specific to your own care belongs in a consultation.
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