For participants, coordinators and health services outside Perth
NDIS nursing for regional and remote WA
Gesond is Perth-based, and distance shouldn’t decide who gets good nursing care. We combine scheduled visits with telehealth so participants outside the metro get the same clinical oversight as anyone in the city.
How it works
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Refer as usual — phone, email or the referral form. We’ll talk through what’s needed and whether telehealth suits.
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Hands-on care happens in person. We schedule regional visits in blocks, so referrals from the same town are seen together — which means shorter waits once a visit is booked.
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Between visits, care continues by telehealth — reviews, care-plan updates and staff guidance by video or phone, documented the same way as any visit.
By video, or in person
Telehealth
- Nursing reviews and follow-ups
- Care-plan reviews and updates
- Medication reviews
- Staff guidance and health education
- Planning before a visit
In person
- First assessments where hands-on examination matters (continence, wounds, complex health needs)
- High-intensity competency sign-offs
- Anything clinical judgement says isn’t safe by video
Andriette decides what’s clinically appropriate by telehealth — if it needs hands, it waits for the visit.
Where we go
- Geraldton
- Kalgoorlie–Boulder
We’re taking referrals now from Geraldton, Kalgoorlie–Boulder and surrounding communities, with visit blocks scheduled as referrals come in. Other regions are considered as the calendar allows — ask us; the worst we can say is not yet.
For coordinators and SIL providers
One visit block can cover several participants, a SIL house’s health oversight and staff competency sign-offs. If you support more than one person in the same region, tell us — pooled referrals mean more frequent visits for everyone.
For rural health services
Andriette du Plessis
Founder and nurse practitioner
Andriette has been nursing for more than 40 years. She began her career in military nursing in South Africa in 1983, added qualifications in midwifery and critical care, and spent years in intensive care, emergency and trauma units before immigrating to Australia in 2002. Her passion for disadvantaged and vulnerable people has shaped her career here — forensic nursing, rural and remote health, Aboriginal health care and watchhouse nursing — before she completed her Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) at Flinders University and gained Ahpra endorsement as a nurse practitioner in 2013.
Today she practises in general practice and aged care alongside Gesond: an endorsed nurse practitioner who assesses and diagnoses, orders and interprets tests, prescribes, refers, and admits to hospital where needed. She also works with the University of Western Australia assessing pharmacy students’ clinical competencies, and has mentored nurse practitioner candidates through their training and endorsement.
Open to visiting nurse practitioner arrangements — clinic sessions, staff training and NDIS crossover work — scheduled around regional visit blocks. Email hello@gesond.health to start the conversation.
Common questions
- Does the NDIS fund nursing by telehealth?
- Yes — where it’s clinically appropriate and agreed in advance. Telehealth is written into our service agreements, and anything that needs hands-on care is done in person instead.
- Which towns do you visit?
- Geraldton, Kalgoorlie–Boulder and surrounds now; other regions as visit blocks fill. Ask — referrals tell us where to go next.
- Does regional care cost more because of travel?
- Travel is agreed in the service agreement before anything starts, the same as metro work — no surprises on an invoice.
- Can prescriptions be done by telehealth?
- Prescribing sits under Medicare rather than the NDIS. Andriette consults under Medicare where eligible — usually after an initial face-to-face consult — and we’ll tell you plainly what’s possible before anything is booked.
- What if internet is unreliable?
- Phone works too, and where possible we arrange video from a local clinic or service site rather than relying on home internet.
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Or call (08) 6326 7009.