00:00Australia is a big country, scattered populations, access to healthcare is a
00:08huge issue. Health across all spectrums, cardiology, respiratory, mental health,
00:14people out in the country do worse. By bridging the gap in access I hope we can
00:20bridge the gap in outcomes and Heart of Australia is one way which we're doing
00:26that. So the trucks are essentially a mobile clinic on wheels, a hospital on
00:33wheels. They operate seven days a week, they go from town to town. We've taken
00:38them on barges out to Palm Island, up to Weepa. On average we save patients 700 to
00:44800 kilometres of travel each time they visit a Heart of Australia service. When
00:49they open up there's a state-of-the-art cardiac and respiratory clinic at the
00:54doorstep of these communities offering services which are otherwise unaccessible.
00:58CT scanners, x-rays, ultrasound machines, stress testing services. What it means is
01:05that patients can turn up, they can have a conversation with the specialists, we can
01:10provide them with an answer on the spot. A diagnosis can be made and treatment can
01:15progress. About 25 to 30 percent of our patients are First Nations patients. When
01:21we looked at all the critical presentations we anticipate that somewhere
01:24between 800 and 900 of those patients are perhaps very lucky to be alive as a
01:30result of attending their appointment. Since we started we've seen over 20,000
01:36patients now. We now have seven clinics in operation in Queensland and we're on the
01:41cusp of the national expansion. In November this year we'll have our seventh
01:46clinic up in Western Australia up in the Kimberleys and by March 2027 we'll have a
01:53mobile clinic in every state and territory across the country. When we
01:57started this program there's always the question would we find the doctors? We've
02:02grown from three doctors to over 30 specialists now and the emails, the
02:07interest from the medical profession as the program grows saying you've created
02:12this amazing service. How can we be a part of it? I think that's very encouraging as well.
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