Flying doctor service (Royal Flying Doctor Service)
Servicio aéreo de médicos volantes (Royal Flying Doctor Service)
- Date
- 17 de mayo de 1928 · confidence high
- Place
- Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
- Credited to
- John Flynn, Hudson Fysh and Qantas
- Field
- Movement
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
An air ambulance service for the Australian outback, begun by the Presbyterian minister John Flynn in 1928 with a Qantas-leased aircraft from Cloncurry and a doctor on board. It brought medical care and radio to remote areas.
There were air medical evacuations in the First World War (1917-1918); the Flying Doctor is the first organised civil service with regular coverage, according to Australian tradition.
What it led to
- air medical services and radio telemedicine
- models of health care in remote areas