Footnotes

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• Contributors RG is responsible for planning, design, implementation and reporting of the work described in the article.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

• Author note Heart of Australia was founded by RG to address the health inequity faced by people living in rural and regional Australia, specifically as it relates to accessing specialist medical services.