The controversial scheme would see late-night patients assessed using a video link to the Tweed Heads Hospital.
But the chief executive of the local health network, Chris Crawford, says equipment is still being installed and he's yet to make a final decision.
He says nurses at Mullumbimby will have support when the initial trial goes ahead.
"With a nurse and doctor utilising it at this stage, and therefore that familiarisation process to commence," he said.
"We believe that should run for a couple of months, that I should have another meeting with the nurses, we should move to see if we can address concerns that have been raised and then a decision would be made.
"There's a draft guideline out which will be the norm for 56 of the 63 shifts that we're talking about.
"We could modify that guideline if a trial at Mullumbimby on the night shift, where the activity is fairly low, turns out to show that a doctor-to-nurse relationship over the telehealth would work."
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Quelle/Source: ABC Online, 30.07.2012
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