Cronos Australia is closing its physical clinics and will undertake all consultations over the phone from April.

The move to a 100% telehealth service will achieve “significant” cost savings, while delivering “quality patient care and a highly scalable business model”, the firm said.

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Steve has reported for a number of consumer and B2B titles over a journalism career spanning more than three decades. He is a regulator contributor to health journal, The Medical Republic, writing on...

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  1. Nothing can replace direct face-to-face contact. So much might be missed. We are losing ‘the art, heart and soul’ of medicine. We might as well get the robots to conduct consultations, much cheaper and sooo… cost effective. All I can hear is business.

  2. I guess, from a business and comercial point of view, this works for the clinics. However, personally I am concerned about patient care. Nothing can replace face-to-face consultation. A lot might be missed. I believe that this approach, while convenient, might result in sub-standard quality care. This trend worries me.

    1. I believe you will still have access to a rapidly growing number of trained and authorised medical cannabis practitioners for face-to-face consultations across Australia thanks to the focused roll out of CanView 2 by Cronos.