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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 detailsWA Flying Doctor logistican set to retire after 33 years of service
Celebrating 33 years of service to regional and remote Western Australia is RFDS logistician Robin Emmett.
Gregory QCWA help keep the Flying Doctor flying
For everyone in the region around Gregory, the RFDS is their general practitioner, their emergency response and their mental health support. So, when we needed an upgraded clinic, the local women stepped in to help.
Flight Nurse celebrates 10 years with the Service
From providing care at 20,000 ft to delivering babies in remote hospitals, Flight Nurse Haidee Kerr shares why working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service is her dream job.
RFDS calls for help to assist cardiac patients
Cardiac emergencies account for almost 25 per cent of all patients transported by the Flying Doctor. And keeping so many critically-ill patients safe in the air requires constant access to a vast and costly range of cardiac monitoring medical equipment and supplies.
The accidental psychologist
For some, working in healthcare is a lifelong dream. For Dr Tim Driscoll it was a happy accident, stumbling upon the profession while working abroad. Now Tim helps hundreds of Queenslanders improve their mental health each year.
Narrogin woman Ann McLeish steps up again for her Flying Doctor
The one and only Ann McLeish is back, walking 185km between Field Days from Dongara to Newdegate to raise vital funds and awareness of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia.
RFDS lands on Channel 7
Five years in the making, the new TV drama, RFDS, finally airs across Australia.
Real RFDS soars to new heights
The latest annual patient and aviation statistics reveal a total of 12,319 patients were flown to emergency or specialist care by the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) in the 2020/21 financial year.
Give Them Wings scholarship 2021 winners announced
This year, RFDS Victoria awarded six Give Them Wings scholarships to very deserving rural health care students from across the state.
A flight like no other
“I really didn’t want to put them out, so I told them it's all good, I'm a platinum flyer so I can sort the flight out myself. They pretty quickly told me I would be flying with the Flying Doctor.”
Back to the outback from Bankstown
New Non-Emergency Patient Transport service takes off from Bankstown.
A nurse's life in the sky
From finding a career to finding love, in her 20 years with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) Nurse Manager Justine Powell has quite a few interesting tales to tell.
The little-known history of the $20 note
There's a good change you've got a $20 in your wallet right now, but not many know the real story behind the man on the red note. His name is John Flynn and it all started back in 1917.
