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A healthier connection: High-speed Wi-Fi hits outback communities

A healthier connection: High-speed Wi-Fi hits outback communities

02 Jul 2025

A new initiative delivering high-speed public Wi-Fi to outback towns will help transform healthcare access for residents, workers and visitors in remote South Australia.

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04 Apr 2019

Saving lives at remote surf beach

When most people think 'remote', images of red-dirt, blue-sky readily come to mind, but not by the Flying Doctor who extended its 'mantle of safety' to the white sand-blue waters of one of the country's most sought-after surf beaches.

A group of people stand under a basic beach shelter. They are all smiling at the camera.
03 Apr 2019

Flying Doctor launches new aircraft and Major Sponsor

The Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations (serving SA/NT) today unveiled a brand new ‘flying intensive care unit’ which will join the fleet, and announced a new major sponsor in South Australian-based oil and gas producer Beach Energy Limited.

Two men in suits stand in front of an aircraft with a BEACH Energy logo on the side. The men are smiling.
20 Feb 2019

“I thought I had a blood nose… I needed emergency brain surgery!”

Brooke suffered multiple fractures to her skull, requiring emergency brain surgery over 2,000 kilometres away in Adelaide.

A young woman smiles. She is standing next to two horses.
05 Feb 2019

Roadstrip Retrieval

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is undertaking the aeromedical retrieval of a man following a motorcycle accident on the Eyre Highway

A RFDS Pilatus PC12 aircraft