Services

Connecting Care to Country aims to raise awareness of cardiac and respiratory diseases through community engagement, education, partnerships with local health providers, training, and research.

IROC provides a culturally safe specialist respiratory outreach service which includes:

• lung health checks
• point-of-care chronic lung disease management
• treatment
• referrals to other health providers
• education.

ICOP provides a culturally safe specialist cardiac outreach service which includes:

• point-of-care chronic cardiac disease management
• treatment
• Echocardiogram (ECHO) & Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• referrals to other health providers
• education.

Service Locations

Indigenous Cardiac Outreach Program (ICOP)

• Aramac
• Barcaldine
• Bedourie
• Biloela
• Birdsville
• Blackall
• Blackwater
• Boulia
• Bundaberg
• Emerald
• Gladstone
• Hervey Bay
• Longreach
• Maryborough
• Moura
• Muttaburra
• Rockhampton
• Tambo
• Windorah
• Winton
• Woorabinda

Indigenous Respiratory Outreach Care (IROC)

• Bedourie
• Birdsville
• Boulia
• Charleville
• Cherbourg
• Cunnamulla
• Dalby
• Doomadgee
• Mornington Island
• Palm Island
• Rockhampton
• Roma
• St George
• Thursday Island
• Winton
• Woorabinda