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06 November 2024
Co-Responding with The Nats: how falls teams work
Ask any patient our Falls Co-Response teams have responded to over the last year, and they’ll tell you what a positive experience they’ve had. The QAS Media team recently spent time on the road with one of our Falls Co-Response teams.
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04 November 2024
Falls figures flag a fine future
After a successful pilot in 2024, planning is now underway to expand the Queensland Ambulance Service’s (QAS) Falls Co-Response Program into more of the state’s regions in 2025.
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06 November 2024
Co-Responding with The Nats: how falls teams work
Ask any patient our Falls Co-Response teams have responded to over the last year, and they’ll tell you what a positive experience they’ve had. The QAS Media team recently spent time on the road with one of our Falls Co-Response teams.
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04 November 2024
Falls figures flag a fine future
After a successful pilot in 2024, planning is now underway to expand the Queensland Ambulance Service’s (QAS) Falls Co-Response Program into more of the state’s regions in 2025.
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01 November 2024
Wayne Sachs on his 50 years
Queensland Ambulance Service's Gympie Station Officer-In-Charge Wayne Sachs reflects on his career with QAS as he receives his 50-year Long Service Medal.
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01 October 2024
A lasting legacy after a young life lost
One day after Joel Week’s 21st birthday he tragically died in a single-vehicle crash at Valentine Plains outside of Biloela. A year on from the tragedy, the community has continued to honour the young larrikin who lived life to the fullest. To
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01 October 2024
Ed lives to meet his QAS saviours after 16 defib shocks
When Edward Morris collapsed into cardiac arrest on Noosa Main Beach last year, his wife Brooke was terrified to tell their children their father wouldn’t make it home.
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01 September 2024
Ken proves CPR training has far-reaching benefits
A “Grey Nomad” walks into an ambulance station… It could be the start of a joke, but while the story the regional Victorian traveller told Baralaba’s Officer in Charge Vaughan Mason has left him with a huge and long-lasting grin, it was
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02 August 2024
QAS Paramedics compete for USAR selection
Within two hours of a call for duty, a select team of Queensland Ambulance Service specialists must be ready to deploy to a disaster zone anywhere in the world.
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31 July 2024
Mental Health Commissioner visits OpCen teams
How Queensland Ambulance Service has adapted its response to a steady increase in calls from vulnerable people was in the spotlight this month when Queensland’s Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic visited the Kedron Park headquarters.
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29 July 2024
Remote rangers recognised for life-saving skills
QAS staff travel to Bamaga in Queensland's remote far north to present certificates to community rangers for their quick thinking and CPR skills which saved a little girl's life.