LifeFlight‘s ‘First Minutes Matter’ returns to Wide Bay, Burnett

LifeFlight‘s First Minutes Matter program returns to the region, empowering thousands with lifesaving skills, while meeting the high demand and success. Read how you can get involved.

LifeFlight‘s First Minutes Matter program returns to the region, empowering thousands with life-saving skills, while meeting the high demand and success. Read how you can get involved.

A demand from the Wide Bay Burnett community for LifeFlights Minutes Matter program has led to its return to the region, with thousands now equipped with lifesaving skills.

The program, designed by medical professionals on board the iconic blue and yellow RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopters, offers free community safety education both online and in-person.

Kingaroy Men’s Shed president Ralph Clark said he thinks the workshop is critical.

“Especially for people in regional areas, to learn these skills because, I’ll put it bluntly, it can mean the difference between life and death,” Mr Clark said.

“If the opportunity is there for anybody to partake in a course like this, I say grab it with both hands, sign up the moment you hear about it. It is so well worthwhile and you get so much out of it,” he said.

The program stands to ensure regional communities are better prepared to face emergencies.

Since its launch in late 2021, almost 60 in-person workshops have been hosted across Queensland.

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LifeFlight Paramedic and First Minutes Matter Trainer, Craig Blick, expressed delight at surpassing expectations with the high number of workshops and online registrations.

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“As a paramedic, I understand the CBD and larger communities are well catered for in terms of paramedical response, but it is the direct opposite when we go to the remote communities,” Mr Blick said.

“So it’s really important for us to be heading out to these regional communities and educate them on what to do while they’re waiting for an ambulance, police, fire and rescue or even the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter.

“The topics that we choose to teach are aimed at those real-life threats that can happen and we can teach people the basic skills,” he said.

LifeFlight‘s First Minutes Matter program stands to ensure regional communities are better prepared to face emergencies, and equipped with the skills that can make a significant difference in critical moments.

The class will be available at Childers on August 1, Woodgate on August 2, Hervey Bay on August 3, Gayndah on August 22, Biggenden on August 23 and Maryborough on August 24.