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h 2 A ( Covid-19 has posed many difficulties for health services and hand therapy must adapt to these hallenges. In Ireland, non urgent outpatient hospital services were closed overnight to slow the pread of the virus. 1 This proposed a challenge to postoperative and trauma services that provide ital outpatient care. Hand therapy is fundamental to achieve good results from hand surgery, and rucial after procedures such as tendon repairs; both in motivating patients and monitoring progress. 2 any of these patients require early hand therapy to optimise their outcomes. Furthermore, Univerity Hospital Galway’s hand therapy department provides a supra-regional service to patients from even hospitals in Ireland – across eight counties, for an estimated population of 730,513 people. 3 Video consultations were identified as a means to provide this service during the initial lockdown, ffering patients access to essential post op care, while minimising social contacts 1 . Removing paients’ inconvenience and travel costs are obvious advantages. Previously described barriers to accepance included data security, data governance, technology failure, and threat to the therapists’ role nd skills. 4 Following the introduction of hand therapy virtual consultations, we wanted to assess paient satisfaction with the service and to assess if this model of care is suitable and satisfactory going orward. Patients receiving hand therapy were prospectively enrolled and had video consultations between 2th March 2020 and 30th June 2020. Depending on their progress, patients either had further