In 1991 a critical decision was made to expand Rescue Services’ medical capability, integrating full-time Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics. With full time medical staff on board, the Gold Coast Helicopter Rescue Service could dramatically improve a patient’s chance of surviving injuries – both at the scene of an accident, and while en-route to emergency care in hospital.

A year later, in 1992, the new CareFlight Queensland expanded from the Gold Coast area to cover rescue services throughout south Queensland. In 1993 the service attracted major sponsorship from the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) who is still CareFlight Queensland’s major sponsor today. This injection of funds helped CareFlight employ part-time doctors who worked with QAS paramedics as part of the crew providing even greater medical assistance to patients.

CareFlight Safety Services (CSS) was established in 1993 as a training division dedicated to providing air medical training courses to promote safety and awareness in the industry. Today, CSS trains more than 3000 Australian and international air crews each year in essential Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) and other safety courses.  All CareFlight air crew, pilots, doctors, nurses and paramedics are trained together as an integrated air-medical team setting international standards in patient and crew safety. CSS profits provide essential funding for CareFlight's invaluable community helicopter services.

Established in 2002, CareFlight Medical Services (CMS) specialises in the recruitment, training and provision of critical care doctors to CareFlight and other retrieval service providers throughout Queensland. On board every CareFlight mission is a critical care Doctor and QAS Paramedic. It's a well known fact that early medical intervention significantly improves a patient's outcome. Without the profits from CMS, CareFlight would not be able to provide specialist doctors free of charge to its patients.

In 2003, CMS became the first air-medical retrieval service in Australia to be quality assured under the ISO 9001-2000 international standard. CMS is also an accredited training facility for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Australia and New Zealand College of Anesthetists and the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. CMS now has 16 medical registrars in training which represents more doctors in training than any Australian hospital emergency department. These registrars train with CareFlight under the supervision of its highly experienced critical care specialists.

In 2004, CMS was awarded the largest public health contract in the Southern Hemisphere to supply doctors on behalf of Queensland Health to other air-medical retrieval services throughout Queensland. Covering an area of more than 1.73 million square kilometers (almost 670,000 square miles), CMS has established its Head Office in Brisbane with a northern hub in Townsville to support its other medical operations on the Gold Coast, Cairns, and Mackay.

In an Australian first, Queensland Health engaged CMS to supply critical care doctors during the state's crippling doctor shortage to the Redcliffe/Caboolture Emergency Departments.

In 2005 CareFlight further expanded its services to establish CMS Air Ambulance. CMS Air Ambulance is the international and domestic retrieval division of the group. A medically configured Lear 36A and Lear 45XR are on standby 24/7 enabling a 45 minute domestic and 90 minute international response. Servicing south-east Asia and the Pacific Rim a critical care Doctor and Registered Nurse are on board all CAA missions. The Lear 45XR is based at Gold Coast International Airport and the Lear 36A at Townsville International Airport.

In the same year CareFlight Doctors started working in the Queensland Co-ordination Centre providing specialist medical advice for all air medical transfers in southern Queensland.

In 2006 CareFlight expanded its helicopter rescue and retrieval services establishing a base in Toowoomba servicing the state’s south-west. A CareFlight helicopter and crew are now on stand-by at the Toowoomba airfield during the day on weekends and school holidays.

In 2007, the CareFlight Group encompasses the CareFlight brand in Queensland.  CareFlight’s new-look website has been established to assist the community to better understand the critical work of all the divisions and importantly how each contributes financially to the Group’s core business.  After 26 years of incredible generosity CareFlight’s largest financial supporters are the communities of south east Queensland and northern New South Wales.

CareFlight's Chief Executive Officer is Ashley van de Velde, the man who pioneered the rescue service in 1981 and whose passion and dedication continues to be a huge driving force within the organisation.

The CareFlight model strives to deliver quality critical care medical teams safely and seamlessly integrated into the aviation environment. There for the community 24/7 CareFlight is proud to operate under world's best practices for air medical safety.  With this in mind, CareFlight has now established CareFlight Global (CFG) to replicate the Group’s air medical rescue model and its integrated training model in other parts of the world.