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#90 A single dad, a sailboat, two girls and a wheel barrow
For two years, single dad James and his daughters Halle and Isla sailed along WA's coast on 'Salty Jocks', embracing remote schooling and fishing. In an inspiring move, James pushed his daughters 500km in a wheelbarrow to support RFDS's Oceans to Outback fundraiser.
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RAP Year in Review 2023
20 Mar 2024Reporting and reflecting on another year of progress and strong momentum on our Reconciliation Action Plan and looking to the tasks ahead to continue on this journey.
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Clinical Leader of the Year
19 Mar 2024RFDS WA Head of Nursing Paul Ingram has been named Clinical Leader of the Year at the WA Rural Health Awards.
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The Flying Nurse
19 Mar 2024Lisa Killian is an RFDS Primary Health Care Nurse based in Broome. She has lived in the Kimberley and central Australia for the past 14 years, working in a variety of nursing roles.
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#82 Melissa's muscles melted and she was unable to walk, talk or move
18 Mar 2024Melissa Domiati went to hospital to have her wisdom teeth removed and was not particularly concerned or worried, but the routine procedure went terribly wrong when she had an allergic reaction to the anaesthetic. She woke up two days later, in Perth, in ICU and unable to move.
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Australian-first virtual emergency centre to help save lives in the outback
15 Mar 2024The Royal Flying Doctor Service is opening a state-of-the-art health hub in the South Australian outback tourism town of William Creek that provides 24/7 emergency medical help with no health professionals physically on the ground.
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Meet Dan Byles
14 Mar 2024Dan Byles has been the Organisational Resilience Lead for the RFDS WA since 2021.
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#81 Dan Hamood was opal fossicking when he fell into a mineshaft
14 Mar 2024Dan, an opal miner, shares his passion for opal mining and the unique gemstones that captivated him. His hobby turned into a life-threatening situation when he fell down a 22-meter deep mine shaft in Coober Pedy.
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Trains, planes and the RFDS
12 Mar 2024Doctor Jig is accustomed to working inside the tight space of an RFDS aircraft, but one retrieval saw him treating an unwell passenger within the confines of the iconic Indian Pacific train.
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Meet the Flying Doctor's female pilots
10 Mar 2024To mark Women in Aviation Worldwide Week, we reached out to our female pilots to ask them what their job means to them. Here’s what they said...
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Road to recovery - Bella's story
08 Mar 2024Bella Howe’s life changed on a wild winter’s day in July 2022. She was a spectator at a dirt bike race in the Wheatbelt town of Brookton when a rider lost control on a jump.
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RFDS Victoria Gender Pay Gap Report 2022-23
26 Feb 2024At RFDS Victoria, our greatest asset is our people. We put people first in everything we do, developing strategies and frameworks to enable individuals to grow, succeed and contribute positively to better health and wellbeing outcomes for the communities we serve.
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RFDS Scholarships Impact
21 Feb 2024‘A rewarding and life-changing experience’ is how one of our Scholarship recipients described her time with RFDS providing medical services in remote areas.
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Sandy overcame a life-changing injury but that was only the beginning of the battle
21 Feb 2024Traumatic injuries can have long-lasting effects and for Ti Tree resident Sandy Abley, the Flying Doctor was there to support her full journey to physical and emotional recovery.
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A dry needle in the haystack: Meet our first Flying Physio
21 Feb 2024Armed with a portable treatment table and a backpack containing everything you’d find in a city clinic, the RFDS’s newest health professional is making tracks in the bush.
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A student placement with the RFDS led to Mick landing his dream job
20 Feb 2024Having grown up in the suburbs of Melbourne, working as a mental health clinician in the Central Desert of Australia is a whole new world for Mick Keane.
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