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Focus on mental health critical as pandemic drags on (NSW/ACT)
Find out how the Flying Doctor is working to improve mental health through lockdowns and the vaccination rollout
Read moreFrom pups to planes: meet the man behind the mask (SA/NT)
Meet RFDS Trades Assistant Dave Rose, who spends hours each day at our Adelaide Base keeping our aeromedical fleet clean and safe from COVID-19.
Read moreListen to your heart this World Heart Day (NSW/ACT)
People with cardiovascular disease and other heart conditions are more at risk of contracting COVID-19 and going on to develop severe forms of the vir
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 moreDesert drama (SA/NT)
I kept trying to convince my son he wasn't about to die. But we all thought he was.
Read moreRFDS Western Operations pilot Jake Walsh marks flying milestone (WA)
Captain Jake Walsh has become WA's third RFDS pilot to join the '500 club' - achieving 500 hours flying time on the first-of-type aeromedical Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet.
Read moreCoral Bay shark bite victim in safe hands of the RFDS (WA)
New South Wales boy Jackson Bartlett, 10, was snorkeling off Coral Bay in WA’s North West with his dad in June when he noticed a large shadow moving fast towards him.
Read moreWA Flying Doctor logistican set to retire after 33 years of service (WA)
Celebrating 33 years of service to regional and remote Western Australia is RFDS logistician Robin Emmett.
Read moreYour support can mean the difference between life and death in remote communities (NSW/ACT)
For 10 years Kathy struggled to live a normal life. She suffered debilitating and unexplained pain in her pelvis, lower back and abdomen, and felt extremely tired. Eventually she was diagnosed with severe endometriosis and almost died when she developed rare complications from her treatment.
Read moreTownsville nurse retires after 13 years (QLD)
Mr Cole, who last week retired from his role as Flight Nurse and Midwife with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS), believes there is no more satisfying way to earn a living than by helping others.
Read moreHelp babies like Zac this Christmas (QLD)
It should have been the happiest day, but it turned into a nightmare for Shane, Jemma and baby Zac.
Read moreIsland home resilience: Combatting COVID-19 in the Top End (SA/NT)
On the remote island of Galiwin’ku in the Top End, the Flying Doctor has been busy working with the community to combat COVID-19.
Read moreOn hand for baby Henry (NSW/ACT)
Ange MacAlpine’s young son had a serious illness, and needed to get skilled medical attention - fast
Read moreBourke and Wills territory safe at last (NSW/ACT)
Where once there was nothing, the RFDS Cooper Basin Clinic now offers locals everything ‘from dental to mental’ health care
Read moreBack to the outback from Bankstown (NSW/ACT)
New Non-Emergency Patient Transport service takes off from Bankstown.
Read moreRFDS helps muster up the courage to discuss mental health (QLD)
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) recently teamed up with renowned working dog trainer Steve Elliott to deliver a unique mental health workshop for the people of western Queensland.
Read moreFrances heads to Tahiti for World Sprints (WA)
RFDS WA Medical Services administration coordinator Frances will travel to Tahiti this month to compete in the Va'a World Sprint Championships.
Read moreFour-year-old Tessa bitten by a king brown snake (QLD)
Four-year-old Tessa Wochnik is lucky to be alive after she was bitten by one of Australia’s deadliest snakes at her family’s remote cattle station.
Read moreLoving father Jacob has use of his arm thanks to your generous support (NSW/ACT)
After a collision on his dirt bike, the 21-year-old needed emergency surgery to save his arm.
Read moreBusselton nurse awarded RFDS Midwifery Scholarship (WA)
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Western Australia has awarded a Busselton Hospital ED nurse the second RFDS midwifery scholarship established in memory of inspirational Western Australian Savanna Addis.
Read moreA fall from a horse (QLD)
I had never met these people before my accident, and yet they saved my life
Read moreMy Dad, Alf Traeger (1895 – 1980) (TAS)
Then one day the Rev. John Flynn walked in. He needed a portable and reliable generator to provide sufficient power for transmitting messages to and from the isolated people of the outback. And so the pedal radio was invented.
Read moreBig rigs on show to help RFDS (TAS)
Tassie truckers travel to every corner of the state just like the RFDS, and this year they're putting on a mega display as a community fundraiser. Bob Imlach's rare Kenworth is just one of the amazing big rigs being polished up for the event.
Read moreKeeping Queensland's mums safe (QLD)
“I saved some of my pocket money for you to use when other people get hurt like my mum.” So ends the beautiful letter we recently received from 8-year-old Brielle Bowen, one of our youngest supporters.
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