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12 Aug 2021

RFDS lands on Channel 7

Five years in the making, the new TV drama, RFDS, finally airs across Australia.

12 Aug 2021

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.

11 Aug 2021

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.

11 Aug 2021

Flight nurse on the Ball

Aeromedical retrievals aren’t for the faint hearted. Just ask RFDS Flight Nurse Michelle Ball. Michelle reflects on her role with the Service, including the time she was tasked with attending a helicopter crash, via helicopter.

10 Aug 2021

Launch of RFDS TV series

RFDS depicts the passion and dedication of the Flying Doctor.

09 Aug 2021

Message from our President

A message from RFDSSE President Alex Scamps

09 Aug 2021

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.”

09 Aug 2021

Back to the outback from Bankstown

New Non-Emergency Patient Transport service takes off from Bankstown.

08 Aug 2021

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.

07 Aug 2021

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.

06 Aug 2021

Message from our CEO

A message from our Chief Executive Officer, Greg Sam.

06 Aug 2021

Terence completes the cycle

“I had a massive, sudden, incredible pain in the back of my head. I knew that something had happened.”

06 Aug 2021

Bourke and Wills territory safe at last

Where once there was nothing, the RFDS Cooper Basin Clinic now offers locals everything ‘from dental to mental’ health care

06 Aug 2021

Outback vaccinations underway

Government and outback communities placing trust in RFDS to quell pandemic

06 Aug 2021

On hand for baby Henry

Ange MacAlpine’s young son had a serious illness, and needed to get skilled medical attention - fast