The RFDS in QLD

Each year in Queensland the RFDS:

• visits more than 90 remote communities each year providing a full range of healthcare services including GP, child and maternal health, mental and oral health to more than 260 people each day
• holds more than 6,100 remote health clinics stretching from the far-north to south-west Queensland
• transports more than 11,500 patients to and from acute hospitals and specialist services from Birdsville to Brisbane, from Thursday Island to Cairns or from Townsville to Mount Isa
• improves the dental health of regional Queenslanders through the RFDS Dental Service
• provides much needed advice to almost 16,800 remote medical consults by phone or video-link
• administers more than 3,700 immunisations.