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Graphic: Leia at Fortescue HQ
Leia's Story
As a fly-in fly-out HR professional for 15 years, Leia Piccoli had witnessed many mining colleagues require an RFDS retrieval in a medical emergency. She had never expected to need the service herself.
More detailsBaby Jenson’s surprise arrival
10 May 2023When Coby Foster set off for a long weekend in Melbourne to enjoy the Australian Open with her friends, little did she know it would be months until she returned home.
Read full storyAustralian Government shores up Primary Health Care Access from Flying Doctor for the Bush
10 May 2023The Royal Flying Doctor Service welcomes the Australian Government’s Budget announcement of an additional $29 million over 2 years.
Read full storyFlying Doctor Podcast #70 How Sarah's stomach ache almost took her life.
05 May 2023Sarah Ward, a busy working mother, was not feeling great and had increasingly bad stomach pains, but kept putting off getting medical advice not realising she had a ruptured appendix and infection was spreading throughout her body.
Read full storyPilot Simon's 20 years
30 Apr 2023“I wanted to give back to the rural community in some way so the RFDS was my next logical step.” Twenty years later and Simon is still flying for the RFDS!
Read full storyFlying Doctor ‘Most Trusted Charity’ 2023
28 Apr 2023For the third consecutive year, RFDS has been named Australia’s Most Trusted Charity in this year’s Reader’s Digest trusted brand survey.
Read full storyRFDS and SAPOL make history with first 'highway landing' of aeromedical jet in Australia
28 Apr 2023The Flying Doctor performed the first ‘highway landing’ of an aeromedical jet on Australian soil, as part of a joint training exercise with SAPOL.
Read full storyRoyal Flying Doctor Service announced as Australia’s ‘Most Trusted Charity’
27 Apr 2023Read full storyReader's Digest Most Trusted Brand Charity 2023 announced
26 Apr 2023The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been announced as Australia’s ‘Most Trusted Charity’ based on the Australian Reader's Digest Trusted Brands survey of 2023.
Read full storyTaking flight later in life: Meet RFDS Pilot Alex Shearn
26 Apr 2023Alex Shearn always dreamed of taking to the skies like his dad, who was a pilot in the Australian Air Force. But from a young age he was told he was colourblind, quashing his aspirations to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Read full storyEmma's son was sleeping when a snake attempted to eat him
24 Apr 2023Living in far north Queensland is not for the faint of heart. Emma Jackson lives on Wolverton Station on Cape York Peninsula and in this podcast, she talks about what occurred when a guest had a 'widow-maker' heart attack and how her life was saved.
Read full storyWhat is the life of a flight nurse actually like?
17 Apr 2023Jacinta Jones has been a flight nurse with RFDS Queensland for 17 years and there is little she has not done or experienced. In this episode we get to walk in Jacinta's shoes and learn about the inner workings and 'behind the scenes' of an RFDS flight nurse.
Read full storyGreg and his helicopter were a crumpled mess at the bottom of the gorge
06 Apr 2023Greg Keynes was mustering cattle by helicopter in a remote part of Western Australia when he experienced engine failure and shortly after found himself in a crumpled mess at the bottom of a gorge. He had a near-death experience but was luckily found and rescued from his perilous circumstance.
Read full storyDoctors' Day
29 Mar 2023To mark Doctors' Day, we reached out to three of the RFDS team to ask them what their job means to them. Here’s what they said.
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