The RFDS in QLD
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Legacy of service: from RAAF to RFDS
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Born to Fly: The journey to become a pilot
02 Sep 2021At just four days old, Mark Stuart-Russell took his first flight. He was taken home from hospital in his father’s Cessna 170.
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Flight Nurse reunited with baby born onboard aircraft
31 Aug 2021It was a reunion four years in the making. After giving birth to a little boy in the back of an RFDS aircraft in 2017, Lucy Westcott and her family were reunited with their Flight Nurse Timna Wright.
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Prioritising health in rural Queensland
31 Aug 2021For 18 years, Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) Nurse Manager Jo Mahony has been a driving force in supporting rural communities through every high and low.
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Gregory QCWA help keep the Flying Doctor flying
24 Aug 2021For 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.
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Flight Nurse celebrates 10 years with the Service
20 Aug 2021From 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.
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More than emergency healthcare — RFDS Field Days
16 Aug 2021Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Field Days are just one of the many ways people in rural and remote areas can access the Flying Doctor’s life-saving treatment.
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RFDS Flight Nurse delivers own baby
16 Aug 2021When Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) Flight Nurse Hayden Wilson completed his midwifery studies in July 2019, little did he know he’d be putting those skills to use two years later to deliver his own child!
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RFDS calls for help to assist cardiac patients
15 Aug 2021Cardiac 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.
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