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Royal Flying Doctor Service once again bound for the Bash in 2025
The Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE) is once again taking flight for the Mundi Mundi Plains as an official charity partner of the 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash festival.
More detailsFollowing in her father’s footsteps
Western Queenslander Liane Spencer has a lifelong connection with The Flying Doctor, working as the Charleville Base Manager, metres away from the hangar that her father serviced RFDS aircrafts for more than 30 years.
Give Them Wings scholarship recipients for 2022 announced
This year, the Flying Doctor was able to award five scholarships to five dedicated an deserving health care students from rural Victoria.
Going above and beyond for the RFDS
Devonport husband and wife team Robert and Caren van Norden are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime as the first Tasmanians to enter the Royal Flying Doctor Service fundraiser – the Outback Air Race.
WA Flying Doctor appoints Dwayne Mallard as first Indigenous board member
The WA Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) proudly welcomed our newest board member Dwayne Mallard to our Jandakot base during NAIDOC Week.
NAIDOC Week 2022
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! is the theme this NAIDOC Week (3-10 July) and Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) Recognised Mental Health Counsellor Joseph Oui is encouraging everyone to do just that.
AWN continues to raise funds for RFDS Victoria after 19 years
At their annual auction, AWN raised a total of $6,912.50 for RFDS Victoria through their wool auction in Melbourne.
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! NAIDOC 2022
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is celebrating NAIDOC week and this years theme Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
Touchdown on paramedic career
RFDS Tasmania farewells a truly amazing aeromedical team member with Ambulance Tasmania intensive care flight paramedic Nick Chapman finishing up after 38 years in the job, the last 10 in aeromedical at the Launceston base.
WA Flying Doctor welcomes Northern Star Resources Limited as newest major partner
The WA Flying Doctor is pleased to announce Northern Star Resources Limited have jumped on board as our newest major partner to establish a new facility supporting health in the Goldfields.
RFDS Victoria wins Fundraising Team of the Year at FIA Awards
This accolade has been a few years in the making, with our Marketing and Fundraising team showing continued effort to drive impact through creativity and innovation.
Meekatharra Flight Nurse retires after 18 years of service with the RFDS
After 18 years with the Royal Flying Doctor Service out of our Meekatharra base, we bid Flight Nurse Anna Van Der Werf a fond farewell and happy retirement.
Roma Saleyards to raise funds for the Flying Doctor
The Maranoa Council is set to donate 50 per cent of the live weight and open auction selling fees received for each head of cattle sold at the upcoming Roma Saleyards Store Sale.
#41 How did they find and save Peter when he suffered a crippling stroke?
On arriving on his remote island property, Peter Woolford became acutely unwell and collapsed with a stroke, paralysed on the kitchen floor and unable to reach the landline to call for help.
Near, far, wherever you are, the RFDS has your back
No matter where you are in WA, people are always within reach of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, thanks to our Medical Chest Program.
Season two of RFDS is coming to Channel 7 and 7plus in 2023.
The Seven Network and Endemol Shine Australia have officially announced the commissioning of the second season for the #1 new Australian drama of 2021, RFDS.
