RACQ LifeFlight Rescue community helicopters are essentially flying intensive care units!
They fly with specialist Doctors and Paramedics trained in the delivery of critical care and state-of-the-art aeromedical medicine - all of which comes at a cost. Through your support, the funds raised provide us with guaranteed, sustainable income to help us improve upon our services which safeguards LifeFlight's future in your community. When you support RACQ LifeFlight Rescue, you are investing in communities and delivering lifesaving outcomes for the communities LifeFlight serves.
LifeFlight brings emergency, lifesaving medical treatment to seriously ill and injured people. The purpose has always been the same – to save lives and support people living in, and visiting, Queensland during their time of need. This purpose is at the core of everything LifeFlight does.
Operating in often challenging environments where on-the-ground medical treatment can be 100 kilometres or more away, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopters have flown more than 56,000 missions over four decades, delivering rapid response critical care: from responding to motor vehicle accidents and patient retrievals from ships at sea to neo-natal and cardiac hospital transfers.
Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
The money raised through LifeFlight Lotteries will assist in continuing to serve the community through the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopters by bringing the hospital to you, no matter where or when. The doctors and paramedics provide lifesaving medical care in the most challenging of environments – up to 6,000ft above sea level!
Every day, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue crews treat seriously ill and critically injured patients, while providing rapid-response airlifts to hospitals around the state.
Show your support and get tickets in LifeFlight Lotteries. It's your support that directly helps improve our services in the community.
Your support is at the heart of everything LifeFlight does
As a charity, LifeFlight relies on the support from the Australian community to help fund the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue service.
Keeping LifeFlight Foundation running involves:
- Providing regular training for the highly skilled crews,
- Servicing and fueling the fleet of cutting-edge aircraft,
- Purchasing advanced medical equipment and safety gear, and
- Investing in future infrastructure projects so LifeFlight can continue to provide the very best care to patients.
Support LifeFlight by purchasing a ticket in the LifeFlight Lotteries. Your contribution means that we can continue these vital but costly activities and save more lives.
LifeFlight provides state of the art medical care, but this comes at a cost.
Since 1979, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue has come to the aid of over 62,000 people.
Every dollar raised will help keep the crew in the sky, saving lives.
- $50 = an Emergency Breathing System (EBS) vest for EBS training
- $100 = a water safety helmet for helicopter underwater escape training
- $180 = a stretcher belt to secure patients during flight (four belts required per stretcher)
- $230 = enough fuel to power an RACQ LifeFlight Rescue community helicopter for 100km
- $400 = a cooling vest to be worn under PPE
- $720 = a complete set of stretcher belts
- $900 = an Emergency Breathing System bottle
- $2,000 = a specialized refrigerator used to store blood supplies on the aircraft
- $4,000 = a flight helmet for our RACQ LifeFlight Rescue crews
