The RFDS in QLD

News

PHC appointment

Keeping kids safe and healthy from the start

17 Sep 2025

This World Patient Safety Day, we share the vital work of the RFDS Primary Health Care (PHC) team in ensuring there’s ‘safe care for every newborn and child’ across Queensland.

More details
14 Mar 2024

$19m means a lot of life saving

For more than 24-years the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) (Queensland Section) has worked alongside Ergon Energy Retail and its customers, to raise over $19 million.

RFDS aircraft
08 Mar 2024

Bringing Dental Care to the Outback

For Renae, her role with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) (Queensland Section) isn’t just about dentistry – it is also about adventure.

RFDS Dental truck
04 Mar 2024

Born to be an engineer

RFDS Senior Base Engineer Nick Mann has always dreamt of flying an aircraft but can’t get enough of fixing them.

Nick Mann standing in the hangar
27 Feb 2024

The Flying Doctor launches a significant Australian company into the clouds

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) (Queensland Section) is proud to announce the naming of a new King Air B360 aircraft as a show of gratitude for the on-going support of Mrs. Gina Rinehart AO and Hancock Prospecting.

RFDS aer
08 Feb 2024

From childhood dreams to RFDS wings

As a boy, Michael Urquhart was fascinated with planes and clouds and still vividly remembers his first flight at the age of nine in a Piper Cherokee at Hervey Bay.

Michael
07 Feb 2024

RFDS provides relief following Tropical Cyclone Jasper

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) (Queensland Section) are extending their mental health services in Far North Queensland to support communities devastated by Tropical Cyclone Jasper.

Stephen flying in to flood areas
31 Jan 2024

Mending minds in rural and remote Queensland

Cairns based RFDS Recognised Mental Health Counsellor Joseph Oui is working with communities to improve mental health and overcome the disadvantages of life in remote and very remote parts of Queensland.

Mental Health Clinician
24 Jan 2024

RFDS skyward: our game-changing Operations Control Centre

RFDS reached a major milestone in November 2022 with the launch of its state-of-the-art Operations Control Centre (OCC).

RFDS OCC