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Music, community and outback spirit unite at the 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash
The 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash has once again demonstrated the extraordinary power of community spirit in supporting vital healthcare services across rural and remote Australia, with thousands of festival-goers rallying behind the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE).
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RFDS seeking SA and NT consumer representatives
Do you have an interest in the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the care it provides every ten minutes to someone living, working or travelling in SA and NT?
Help close to home
Fortunately for one Adelaide motorcyclist, the RFDS was on hand to assist very close to home.
Desert drama
I kept trying to convince my son he wasn't about to die. But we all thought he was.
The bush gets in your blood
Our newest RFDS Life Member recalls his outback memories of the Flying Doctor.
Little helpers
Meet Jack and Cowboy Roy – two kids doing big things for the Flying Doctor.
Baby Daisy's Flying Doctor journey
Shantell Kennell was enjoying the perfect pregnancy, when almost overnight her blood pressure shot through the roof. Shantell was told she had severe preeclampsia, her life was in danger and the only sure ‘cure’ was to deliver her baby in a specialist unit 600km away...
Rio Tinto invests in a third aeromedical jet for RFDS Western Operations fleet
A third Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet is set to join the RFDS Western Operations fleet in 2022.
First Flying Doctor midwife scholarship recipient hits the skies above Isa
In January, the first recipient of a new Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) midwifery scholarship has taken to the skies over North West Queensland.
Weighing a RFDS PC-12 Aircraft
When our PC-12 aircraft arrive from the Pilatus factory in Switzerland, the plane undergoes an aeromedical fit-out, performed by our specialist engineers. The 760 hour fit-out equips the aircraft to serve as an intensive care unit in the sky.
Smile Squad
The Flying Doctor Dental team has joined the Victorian government’s Smile Squad – a program set up to provide free examinations and dental treatment to Victorian public school children.
Bronwyn’s story
RFDS Victoria's Rural Women's GP service offers clients a gender choice when it comes to seeing a clinician. For Charlton local Bronwyn, the service has proven to be a "godsend".
National Standards update
RFDS Victoria’s voluntary participation in the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (National Standards) compliance assessment is fast approaching, with the auditing process commencing in late February 2020.
