Heart Week May 05-11, 2025

Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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For people over the age of 45 without known cardiovascular disease (CVD), is it time to have a Heart Health Check with your GP? Chat with your GP practice for further information.

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Heart Foundation website

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North Queensland X-Ray Services offers cardiology services in both Cairns and Townsville.

CAIRNS   Cardiology Services in Cairns, across the road from the Showgrounds https://www.nqxray.com.au/locations/cairns-locations/ BULK- BILLED* Echocardiography  BULK-BILLED* Exercise Stress Echo (ESE) BULK-BILLED* Holter Monitors BULK-BILLED* CT Coronary Angiograms (CTCA+CACS) ….. when referred by Specialists BULK-BILLED* Cardiac MRI ….. when referred by Specialists Low Cost CT Calcium Score (CACS) $175 BULK-BILLED Cardiologist Consultations with Dr Willis Lam with bulk-billed diagnostic services, as mentioned above, no wait times   *for Medicare-eligible services   Cairns Integrated Chest Pain Clinic (Dr Willis Lam) 126 Mulgrave Road, Parramatta Park QLD 4870 ( Located within NQ X-Ray Services ) Email  chestpainclinic@nqxray.com.au Phone (07) 4088 1826 Fax (07) 4088 1827 www.nqxray.com.au

TOWNSVILLE   Cardiology Services in Townsville, in the Queensland Country Building https://www.nqxray.com.au/locations/townsville-locations/ BULK BILLED*  Echocardiogpraphy  (Aitkenvale and Hyde Park) BULK-BILLED* MPS (Exercise or pharmacological Stress Test included) and general Nuclear Medicine BULK- BILLED* Exercise Stress Tests (not suitable for those who cannot tolerate treadmill exercise, please consider other  testing eg. MPS) BULK-BILLED* Holter Monitors BULK-BILLED* Ambulatory BP (if not on Antihypertensive medications) BULK-BILLED* CT Coronary Angiograms (CTCA+CACS) ….. when referred by Specialists Low Cost Cardiac MRI ….. when referred by Specialists Low Cost CT Calcium Score (CACS) $175 *for Medicare-eligible services   Please email or contact NQXRAY  Cardiology administration E-mail cardiology@nqxray.com.au  1/333 Ross River Road, Aitkenvale QLD 4814 Phone 07 44345410 Fax 07 4088182 www.nqxray.com.au

Here is a link for the Heart Foundations’s “Cooking with heart” ….recipes e-book .