Heart of Australia Brings Specialist Care to Tieri

Since August 2023, Heart of Australia has been visiting Tieri on a quarterly basis to provide the following services:

• New and review cardiology consultations
• Exercise Stress Testing
• Stress Echocardiograms
• Transthoracic Echocardiograms
• Respiratory Function Tests

In that time, they have delivered 82 appointments, with positive feedback from local healthcare professionals and the local community.

Services are delivered onboard Heart of Australia’s custom mobile health clinic – the Heart Truck – which parks near the Tieri Town Services building off of Talagai Avenue.

Being able to provide these services to the Tieri community aligns deeply with Heart of Australia’s mission to provide health equity to country Australians living in rural and remote communities, says Ewan Wylie, Head of Operations for Heart of Australia.

“We’re very proud to support the team at Tieri Medical Practice & Physiotherapy and the surrounding medical centres with our cardiology visits, and we look forward to continuing to do so in 2025.”

The confirmed months for visits in 2025 are February, May, August and November.
2025 will also see Heart of Australia expand their services nationally.

“We’ve partnered with the Australian Government to co-deliver the new National Lung Cancer Screening Program by providing mobile lung cancer screening services to rural and remote communities nationwide,” explains Ewan.

“With support from the Australian Government and our corporate partners, we’ll be building five new mobile clinics, each fitted with a mobile CT scanner and state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment to provide accessible lung cancer screening services across every state in Australia and the Northern Territory. This means we’ll have a second CT truck travelling around Queensland from 2026.”

In addition to their core cardiology and respiratory services, Heart of Australia also delivers specialist women’s health services at our neighbouring community, Middlemount.