You Can Save Lives in the Outback

Will you join a group of caring Queenslanders and provide critical healthcare to the outback? A monthly gift connects people in remote areas with ongoing medical aid, emergency services, and other vital healthcare services.

Every two minutes, someone needs the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Compassionate people like you can help us provide care to outback communities. Will you help us save lives?

YES! I believe in better healthcare for the bush

The Royal Flying Doctor Service travels far and wide to offer 24/7 aeromedical retrieval. But to create better health outcomes for all Australians, we’ve gone even further.

Today, more than 50% of our daily operations are dedicated to extensive primary healthcare services, including dental, mental health and healthcare education.

387,300 Australians are assisted by the RFDS every year through clinics, aeromedical transports and telehealth consultations.

65 primary health care clinics delivered every day, providing medical care, immunisations, health education, mental health and dental health care services.

2,370 medical chests located across rural and remote Australia, supported by 24/7 telehealth services and emergency evacuations.

Flying Doctor Flight Nurse with Patient in an RFDS Aircraft
RFDS pilot, doctor, and nurse in front of aircraft, ready for a life-saving mission

The Impact You’ll Make

Together, we’ll save precious lives. From ensuring the safe delivery of premature babies in remote areas, to helping beloved parents survive heart attacks and return home to their families. You’ll help us be a mate to graziers doing it tough, and provide dental care for people, who without the RFDS, would have no other option. 

You’ll be part of a team that will ensure children battling cancer get to the best hospitals in the country, and together we will put patients’ minds at ease with the knowledge that our nurses and doctors are on their way to care for them and take them to safety.

By supporting the RFDS, you’re caring for the well-being of people in the bush, regardless of their situation, reflecting the very essence of what it means to be Australian.

Your compassion means that we can be there 24/7 for the 80,000 Queenslanders every year who need a hand.

Aeromedical Retrieval
“In 2013 I was rushed by the RFDS from Rockhampton to Brisbane and had two stents inserted in my heart arteries which saved my life. I celebrated my 90th birthday in April.“Anonymous
Primary Health Care
“We are a community made up of young children, both preschool age and school age, young adults and mature residents, so knowing we have the RFDS available through primary health care clinics is very reassuring to us.” Eulo resident, Nan Pike
Telehealth & Medical Chests
“The medical chest is so much more than a box in someone’s kitchen – it is a privilege to have access to these medicines and an incredible service offered by the RFDS.”RFDS Medical Chest Service Lead,
Elizabeth Doran
Oral Health
“My partner and I have worked on cattle stations in remote Australia, and you have got young fellows whose teeth have rotted and half fallen out from poor dental hygiene and they are going to the Flying Doctor dental van. They return, and they have the whitest, shiniest teeth you could ever see, and you cannot wipe the smile off their face.Tambo resident, Rachel
Health Promotion
“Field Days are designed to inform, discuss and create awareness of particular health issues and offer opportunities for people to access these services.”RFDS Primary Health Care Nurse,
Leanna Murray
Mental Health
“I am forever grateful to the incredible mental health team and cannot thank them enough for the tremendous efforts they put in to help pull me from the dark place I was in and continue to keep me afloat.” “The RFDS mental health service has saved my life.”Anonymous

You and the RFDS

Queenslanders have trusted the RFDS for over 95 years to deliver emergency aeromedical retrieval, essential primary and preventative healthcare to remote, rural and regional areas.

The finest care, to the furthest corners

As someone who understands why the RFDS is needed, and who advocates for the health of others through their support, we thank you. On the below live flight map, you’ll see every Flying Doctor aircraft that’s on its way to help someone right this very moment. Thank you for choosing to care about the patients living or travelling in remote Australia.


Every two minutes, someone needs the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Medical chests located across rural and remote Australia, supported by 24/7 telehealth services and emergency evacuations.
2,370
Primary health care clinics delivered every day, providing medical care, immunisations, health education, mental health and dental health care services.
65
Australians are assisted by the RFDS every year through clinics, aeromedical transports and telehealth consultations.
387,300

Thanks to you

With your support, we provide emergency aeromedical retrievals and primary health care services to more than 240 people every day across Queensland.

Your support will mean that every Queenslander, whether they’re on a remote outback station, or in one of our regional cities, will have access to medical aid, emergency services and other vital health care services.

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