The CareFlight Group Queensland collectively represents Australia’s largest air medical retrieval operation, carrying out more than 3000 domestic and international emergency rescues each year. CareFlight is one of a select few services in the world to integrate its own full-time critical care doctors, air crews, dedicated medical helicopters and jets to dramatically reduce response time.
CareFlight Rescue (CFR) is a not-for-profit chariable organisation which operates the groups rescue helicopters. With a response time of as little as six minutes, its dedicated pilots and aircrew operate a fleet of helicopters including, a Bell 412, Bell 230 and a AS350BA Squirrel. With a critical care doctor and QAS paramedic on board every mission, CareFlight Rescue is the groups core business. Incredibly this service is provided to the communities of south east Queensland and northern New South Wales 24/7, at no charge to patients.
CareFlight Medical Services (CMS) is a not-for-profit charitable organisation specialsing in the recruitment, training and provision of critical care doctors and medical support staff to the air medical environment. As an accredited medical training facility with Australia's three critical care colleges, CMS trains 32 registrars each year under the close supervision of its experienced team of specialists. This represents more doctors in training than any major Australian Hospital Emergency Department. CMS is also the first air-medical retrieval service in Australia to provide its doctors into hospital Emergency Departments in times of critical staff shortages.
CareFlight Air Ambulance (CAA) operates Australia’s only 24/7, medically staffed and configured retrieval jets, the Lear 36A and the Falcon 10. With an international response time fo as little as 90 minutes, CAA is located at the Gold Coast International Airport performing retrieval missions across Australia, into Asia and the Pacific rim. CAA profits provide essential funding for CareFlight's invaluable community rescue helicopter service.
CareFlight Safety Services is the groups registered aviation and medical training division, training more than 3000 pilots and aircrew each year in the renowned Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) and other aviation safety and air medical courses. It has contracts throughout Australia, the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and with the Australian Department of Defence to train Australian Defence Force personnel. All CareFlight doctors, nurses, paramedics, pilots and aircrew are trained as integrated teams to provide world best practice in patient and crew safety under the CSS model. CSS profits provide essential funding for CareFlight's invaluable community rescue helicopter services, to provide even more rescues throughout Queensland at no cost to the public.
CareFlight Global (CFG) is a division of the CareFlight Group Queensland co-ordinating the larger scale, international expansion of the medical rescue and training models, commencing this year. The CareFlight Group’s model of operation, as a fully integrated rescue service with its own full-time doctors, air-crew and dedicated medical helicopters and jets, is strives to achieve world’s best practice in air-medical safety. For this reason, CareFlight is replicating its air medical rescue model and integrated training model in other parts of the world.
CareFlight Rescue and CareFlight Medical Services are not-for-profit, charitable organisations. All profits generated by CMS, CAA and CSS operations provide essential funding for CareFlight's community rescue services throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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