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Making Tracks (SA/NT)
Flying Doctor founder Rev. John Flynn was also known as “Flynn of the Inland”, having crossed the country’s ochre heart over decades to establish vital links to health care in the bush.
Read moreFlying Doctor lifeline to station life (SA/NT)
Lying on a claypan after being flung from a motorbike on the Clifton Hills Station in the far north-east corner of South Australia, station manager Peter Nunn knew the RFDS was on the way.
Read moreThe doors of our Visitor Experience are open! (NSW/ACT)
Dubbo's newest tourist attraction has opened its doors.
Read moreFlying Doctor Flight Nurse calls time on long and illustrious career helping others (QLD)
Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) Flight Nurse Lois Lanyon has called time on a long and well-travelled nursing career spanning almost 50 years.
Read moreFlying across a pandemic to save lives (SA/NT)
As Australians began grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the nation earlier this year, the RFDS donned protective masks and kept in the air to save lives.
Read moreLocal Hero 2019 launch (QLD)
Nominations open tomorrow across Queensland for the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Local Hero Awards. Now in its fourth year, the award calls out and congratulates those community members who have rolled up their sleeves, put out their hands or stowed away their fears to help in an emergency.
Read moreFlying Doctor teams unite (VIC)
The significant disruptions to ‘business as normal’, paired with increased pressure on some teams, has meant that RFDS Victoria’s staff has needed to be flexible in meeting the needs of the organisation in 2020.
Read moreBrisbane Airport: Queensland's link to life-saving care (QLD)
Last year alone, more than 4,250 patients from 63 locations across Queensland passed through Brisbane Airport with the Flying Doctor.
Read moreRFDS Receives Fuel Expense Relief from Australian Government (WA)
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been granted a number of fuel rebates from the Australian Government’s Australia Airline Financial Relief Package (AAFRP), totalling more than $500,000.
Read moreDentists go west (WA)
Our Dental van program is one of the many primary healthcare services provided by RFDSWA who travel to remote locations in the MidWest
Read moreInvictus Games Gold for Flying Doctor Base Manager (NSW/ACT)
RFDS Broken Hill Base Manager Marcus Wilson was so focused on the sailing that he almost didn’t noticed Prince Harry in the boat next to him. Here, Marcus shares the excitement of representing Australia and the RFDS in the Invictus Games
Read moreA peek at the life of a Flying Doctor Flight Nurse (NSW/ACT)
I thought, just before midnight. As a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctors Service, I was due to clock off my 12-hour shift at 6am.
Read moreFlying Doctor ready to help our farmers. Wherever. Whenever (NSW/ACT)
Working in remote locations, our farmers are often a far distance from help should an incident occur.
Read moreNational Volunteer Week 2020 (WA)
This National Volunteer Week (18 – 24 May 2020), we celebrate and acknowledge the volunteers and supporters who are the lifeblood of our organisation.
Read more“I thought I had a blood nose… I needed emergency brain surgery!” (SA/NT)
Brooke suffered multiple fractures to her skull, requiring emergency brain surgery over 2,000 kilometres away in Adelaide.
Read moreOutback Survival: Exploring Safely (QLD)
In the outback, safety when exploring comes down to one thing: preparedness.
Read moreA fishing trip which could have been his last (QLD)
We'd been fishing all morning. I can't even blame the fact that I was fighting a big fish and it put strain on me. There was no pain, no shortness of breath, nothing at all. It just came straight out of the blue.
Read moreA shock to the system (QLD)
There he lay, white and lifeless, a nurse already performing CPR. And there was Michelle Low Mow, fuelled on little more than adrenaline, a defibrillator in one hand and an oxygen tank in the other.
Read moreTasmania hosts 4X4 For The Doc (TAS)
Join the family 4WDs taking on a Tassie charity adventure
Read moreMeet Port Hedland Flying Doctor Sanjeet Chana (WA)
“As a Brit working in Australia for the first time, the Gibb River Road sits as a must-see, an iconic route in an amazing part of the country. I’m really looking forward to staying at cattle stations, visiting remote communities and meeting the people who live there.
Read moreCrew members return to serve WA communities during COVID-19 (WA)
Former RFDS Western Operations pilot Joe Saad has responded to a call-out from the Flying Doctor in WA to bolster their workforce during COVID-19 and beyond. Joe shares with us insights from the frontline as he undertakes intensive infection control training and patient transfer procedures.
Read moreA day in the life – John Hannan (QLD)
For Cairns Mental Health Clinical Practitioner, John Hannan, no two days in his line of work are ever the same. Flexibility and spontaneity are required to ensure every client seen is helped. This is a day in the life of John Hannan.
Read moreThe power of three (QLD)
All the girls at the Base were listening in when I asked Lyn if she would marry, me. Of course, all the RFDS nurses then asked if they had an invite to the wedding!
Read moreUrgent flight for Albany baby (WA)
“Seeing your baby turn blue and struggling to breathe is terrifying,” says Albany mum, Tammy. When four-month-old baby Grace was struggling to breathe, Tammy remained level-headed to provide her daughter with the best fighting chance.
Read moreThe full reach of Flying Doctor care (QLD)
For a pregnant, first time mother moving to remote north west Queensland, the importance of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) could not have been more evident for Ebony Robertson.
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