CareFlight

About CareFlight

Our mission is to save lives, speed recovery and serve the community.

CareFlight is dedicated to providing the highest standard of rapid response critical care to the ill and injured. Our specially trained doctors and nurses use helicopters, aeroplanes, medi-jets and road ambulances to bring a hospital level of care to our patients.

Registrar Careers Night

CareFlight is holding our annual Registrar Careers Information Evening on Wednesday 3 July 2013. Get a sneak peek into the fast-paced world of retrieval medicine.

Buy a Bear

Choose one of our cuddly CareFlight bears and help save a life.

5 May 2013 2:15pmAn injured mountain bike rider was flown to hospital after a CareFlight team searched and found him on a track in Garigal National Park at Belrose in Sydney's north today.
19 April 2013 1:00pmThe world peak aeromedical body has honoured CareFlight's unique Australian initiative in national trauma training.
7 April 2013 6:00pmA teenager was left unconscious for several minutes after his head hit the ground during a rugby league game at inner-west Birchgrove in Sydney today.
5 April 2013 6:20pmA boy was flown to hospital by CareFlight from a two-car crash which left two adults and two children injured at Aylmerton, in the NSW Southern Highlands, this afternoon.
2 April 2013 7:20amThe search for an aircraft with four people on board has been stepped up today along the projected flight path from East Kimberley to Darwin.
18 March 2013 11:30amEmergency services combined to treat a young girl who was critically injured when she was run over by a truck on a property at Oakville, in Sydney's north-west, today.
11 March 2013 10:30amCareFlight has begun the national rollout of its popular national MediSim program for 2013.
9 March 2013 11:30amA five metre fall from the roof he was spraying left a man with serious head injuries at Kenthurst, in Sydney's north-west, this morning.
25 February 2013 10:30amDarwin's CareFlight helicopter is flying a long-range mission to airlift an ill crew member from a luxury cruise ship off the remote coast of Arnhem Land in northern Australia.
20 February 2013 7:10pmA man was left initially unconscious when he crashed off his bike on a downhill road in Cumberland State Forest in West Pennant Hills, in Sydney's north-west, late today.
14 February 2013 6:30pmA man suffered severe head injuries when struck by a car while crossing a busy road at Merrylands West, in Sydney's west, tonight.
7 February 2013 3:00pmCareFlight's national rollout of its popular national MediSim program returns to where it started three years ago...with a course at Kempsey RSL on Monday and Tuesday 11 and 12 February.
31 January 2013 4:00pmAn Australian aeromedical pioneer was honoured when NT Health Minister David Tollner launched CareFlight's provision of the Top End Medical Retrieval Service at Darwin International Airport.
8 January 2013 4:00pmFour people were rescued on their broken down boat after activating a distress beacon in the Beagle Gulf, about 50 km north-east of Darwin today.
28 December 2012 3:50pmA woman suffering neck injuries was flown to hospital by CareFlight following a water ski mishap on the Hawkesbury River at Pitt Town, in Sydsney's north-west, today.

What's Happening:

MediSim wins award

CareFlight's MediSim outreach program was recognised with a prestigious international award in April.

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New planes in the NT

CareFlight names one of its new aeroplanes in honour of an Australian outback aeromedical pioneer.

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Todd Peisley ride for CareFlight

The motorcycling community is raising funds for CareFlight while commemorating Todd Peisley.

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Current Appeal:

CareFlight Appeal May 2013

May Appeal 2013

"Male, 40s, fall, unconscious."

Falls can happen to anyone. In fact, accidental falls are the leading cause of injury hospitalisation in Australia. And a quarter of them happen at home.