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ANZSVS Conference 2025
Deadly Feet: Your foot health, Closer to home
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9:35 am

03 October 2025

Room L2

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Nursing

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Background: Deadly Feet is a co-designed, multi-disciplinary outreach service delivered across multiple sites. Deadly Feet aims to improve clinical pathways and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at risk of or with foot disease through early detection, risk modification and intervention by addressing the known barriers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face accessing healthcare. This is achieved by delivering podiatry, vascular sonography, and vascular specialist services to patients in a culturally appropriate manner. It operates in collaboration with Hospital and Health Services (HHS), Institute of Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH), Moreton Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Services (MATSICHS) and Galangoor Duwamali Primary Healthcare Service, Cherbourg Regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Service (CRIACCHS) and local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and health teams. Deadly Feet also monitors the Royal Brisbane Woman’s Hospital (RBWH) vascular clinic waitlist for any Identified patients that have been referred into the service rather than Deadly Feet. Method: Deadly Feet use a culturally responsive model of care that includes Community engagement events as well as providing education and opportunistic screening using the Better together health van, ability to receive self-referrals, patients reviewed by 3 specialists in one appointment, assistance with transport and providing care closer to home. Result: the team has held over 67 clinics over 500 people reviewed, 4 patients have received limb salvaging surgery, and 6 patients have received surgical intervention for rest pain.
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Ms Courtney Finch -