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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 detailsBehind the aircraft
Behind every Flying Doctor aircraft there are a team of pilots and engineers who ensure our fleet is in the safest working order before take-off.
Supporter profile: Dr Sandra L J Johnson
The big-hearted and visionary supporters that choose to leave a gift in their Will to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (South Eastern Section) are helping ensure that we will be able to continue providing essential healthcare to rural, regional and remote Aussie communities for generations to come.
Here for our communities. More aeromedical services for Broken Hill
An additional plane and 12-hour pilot shift boosts bush coverage
A growing service. More patient transportation from our Bankstown base
The Flying Doctor makes it easier for patients to get between regional NSW and Sydney.
Outback Car Trek back on the road to raise funds
Organisers have announced where the Outback Car Trek is headed in 2022.
Festival will once again rock the outback
As one Mundi Mundi Bash comes to fruition, we are excitedly preparing for the next outback festival in just a few months’ time
Anna overcomes fear with Flying Doctor
Going into labour and needing to be flown to hospital wasn’t part of the plan for a quiet weekend away.
Flying Doctor Community Transport is set to expand its service right across Victoria.
RFDS Victoria is proud and excited to announce that it will be expanding its successful Community Transport service into eight new sites across Victoria from 2022.
Australian Government announces Flying Doctor 10-year strategic partnership
The Minister for Regional Health, Dr David Gillespie, and Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia Chair, Dr John O’Donnell, today announced a ten-year $1 billion partnership between the Australian Government and the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
Newest recruits complete induction training
Our newest doctors spent a day treating simulated patients in scenario-based exercises.
QCoal Foundation invests in innovative RFDS pilot training
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) today welcomed a new $3 million commitment from QCoal Foundation for a new world-class aviation training facility in Bundaberg.
Close The Gap Day
17th of March is National Close the Gap Day, a day of action for Indigenous health equality, that aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.
WA Flying Doctor marks Close the Gap Day
Every day, WA Flying Doctor crews travel hundreds of kilometres to Close the Gap, delivering essential healthcare to many remote Aboriginal communities. Here are some of their stories.
WA Flying Doctor's fleet boosted by arrival of new Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet
Thanks to an investment from our Principal Partner Rio Tinto, today the WA Flying Doctor was thrilled to welcome a third Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet to boost our aeromedical fleet.
Flying Doctor continues its integral role in the national COVID vaccination rollout
The Flying Doctor has been helping safeguard families against COVID by providing adults and children with their vaccinations.
