Stage/date	Description
Stage 1 (13 March 2020)	General practitioner consultations using telehealth for patients aged at least 70 years, Indigenous people aged at least 50 years, pregnant women, parents of children under 12 months of age, and those who are immunocompromised or have a chronic medical condition resulting in increased risk from coronavirus infection
Stage 2 (16 March 2020)	Supporting telehealth consultations by obstetricians, midwives, nurse practitioners, and some mental health providers
Stage 3 (23 March 2020)	Enabling vulnerable GPs and other medical specialists (in the same categories as in Stage 1) and providers authorised to use telehealth item numbers to provide care for their patients using telehealth
Stage 4 (30 March 2020)	Extending existing telehealth items to all Australians. This included a substantial investment in mental health support, with specific commitments to children and young people, older Australians, and health care workers
Stage 5 (6–20 April 2020)	Supporting expanded telehealth for many specialist medical services and allied health services, including consultant physicians, psychiatrists, geriatricians, public health physicians, neurosurgery, chronic disease management by nurses and Indigenous health workers, and group psychotherapy