Date Published: 19 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
I went to bed with no idea that in the hours to come my parents would face what every parent fears – a verdict from a doctor on whether their child was going to live or die.
Date Published: 3 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The fifth of five bronze busts of 95-year-old Birdsville Track mailman EG (Tom) Kruse MBE will be unveiled by Ted Eagan AO at the National Road Transport (NRT) Hall of Fame in Alice Springs on Sunday, 29 August 2010.
Date Published: 31 May 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) turned 82 on Saturday 15 May, and celebrated in style at its Wings for Life ‘Birthday’ Ball and major annual city fundraiser at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
Date Published: 28 May 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
When Kenny regained consciousness at 5.30am, he was shocked to find himself pinned beneath a bus – the bus that just moments before had been carrying him and 16-fellow passengers along a remote Northern Territory highway to Darwin.
Date Published: 28 May 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
If you live in a big city you can take for granted the hospitals and world-class physicians at your finger tips; in fact, many of us would not have given it a second thought.
Date Published: 27 May 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The late Dr John Thompson OAM MBBS C&B KStJ will be remembered as a pioneer of rural medicine and the first ‘Flying Doctor’ in South Australia.
Date Published: 27 May 2010
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) said goodbye to an inspiring lady who is a true legend and veteran of the Service when Dawn Ruby Prior OAM, aged 84, passed away on 6 April 2010 in Alice Springs.
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Date Published: 4 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The August 7 announcement that Variety, the children’s charity had made a $600,000 grant to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), was a golden day for the children of South Australia.
Date Published: 4 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Central Operations
Aussie adventurer Russell Worthington has completed his ultimate physical challenge – to ride a mountain bike through the 10 deserts of inland Australia – in aid of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
Date Published: 4 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Central Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is investing in its future by offering scholarships to Registered Nurses who have a desire and passion to work for the Service but do not have one of its mandatory qualifications, most commonly midwifery.
Date Published: 4 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Central Operations
There is certainly no shortage of local knowledge, experience and diversity of specialist medical skills among the ranks of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in northern South Australia thanks to the decades of combined service by Doctors Thomas
Date Published: 24 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
BCI Ride West 1000, a cycling challenge of 1,200 kilometers over ten days has raised over $140,000 for the RFDS.
Date Published: 24 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Past patient and staff member, Kirstie Broadfield, talks about her RFDS evacuation
Date Published: 11 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
QCoal signs on as new principal sponsor for Queensland's RFDS.
Date Published: 11 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
A tribute to long term employee and voice of the RFDS, Mary Grogan.
Date Published: 11 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Providing child and family health services to rural and remote Queensland communities
Date Published: 11 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Mona works for the RFDS Mount Isa Base in a Community Liaison and Development.
Date Published: 7 Jul 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Captain Peter Brooke celebrates 25 years of service to the RFDS
Date Published: 7 Jul 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
RFDS Rockhampton Base celebrates 15 years of service to the people of Queensland
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Date Published: 18 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
RFDS announced beneficiaries of 13th Annual Townsville Sunrise Rotary Raffle
Date Published: 27 May 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
The RFDS would like to thank the Thargomindah Auxiliary for raising $20,000.
Date Published: 13 May 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
For the Sargood family of South Hampton Downs, the RFDS is considered a family friend. Since 1998, the RFDS has been there to support seven family members for a range of medical situations, from pregnancy complications requiring transfers through to
Date Published: 7 May 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
To raise funds for the RFDS and to commemorate the centenary of powered flight, Qantas pilot Owen Zupp has traded in his normal 747 jet to fly around Australia in his pupose built Jabiru J230 light aircraft.
Date Published: 7 May 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Cyclists in the BCI Ride West 1000 departed from the Amberley RAAF Base at 7.25 this morning to raise funds for the RFDS
Date Published: 15 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland section) was pleased to be this year’s nominated charity for the annual Parker & Partners Politzer Prize, with a cheque for $5000 presented to CEO Nino Di Marco on Friday February 12, 2010.
Date Published: 4 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
Queensland fundraisers recognised and rewarded at Gala Presentation Ball.
Date Published: 15 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Queensland Section
The Queensland Government has awarded the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland section) a contract for additional patient flying time above their existing arrangements along the state’s east coast.
Date Published: 19 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
When Emma Ashton and her husband Peter moved to a remote property in South Australia
two years ago the first thing they did was teach their children how to call the Flying Doctor.
Date Published: 19 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Julie and Justin McClure and their four children live on a remote sheep station on the Darling River,
360 kilometres from Broken Hill.
Date Published: 19 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Have you ever wondered what happens to older aircraft? As these pictures show, if they’re still serviceable we refurbish them.
Date Published: 19 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
First time mum Callie Browning had to call
on the RFDS when her son Liam was born
suffering from acrocyanosis and oxygen
desaturation.
Date Published: 14 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Make a bid for Harry Hart's Sydney Opera House painting, courtesy of the Sun Herald, with all proceeds to the RFDS!
Date Published: 23 Jul 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has played an integral role in the search and rescue of a 38 year old Adelaide man this week, after he became bogged in the South Australian outback while attempting to travel from Adelaide to Cairns.
Date Published: 5 Jul 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Central West woolgrower and former Mayor of Gilgandra Max Zell has launched a unique fundraising campaign for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Date Published: 12 May 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
When Jim Stevens suffered a heart attack during a routine examination, quick thinking RFDS doctors administered life-saving drugs to stop it.
Date Published: 11 May 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Farmer Terrence McInerney suffered serious injury when he fell off his motorbike.
Date Published: 5 May 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
A serious motorbike accident while he was on holiday almost cost Tony Bennett his life.
Date Published: 6 Apr 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Join us as we throw open the hanger doors to three of our RFDS bases in May.
Date Published: 5 Apr 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
A worried young mum almost loses her baby in the small town of White Cliffs.
Date Published: 5 Apr 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Erika Turner teaches high school in Cobar, a busy outback town of 6,000, eight hours north-west of Sydney.
Date Published: 28 Mar 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today flew into Broken Hill for a tour of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) base and local health facilities.
Date Published: 12 Mar 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Medtronic Australasia have already shown a great deal of support for the Flying Doctor in recent times, with a pledge of $40,000 including the installation of new lights at Packsaddle airstrip in far western NSW.
Date Published: 26 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Sydney’s rugby stars have joined forces with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) for the charity’s annual rugby fundraising dinner in April.
Date Published: 19 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
A new sealed airstrip unveiled at Collarenebri this week will make responding to medical emergencies much easier for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
Date Published: 3 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
According to a report in The Australian newspaper last year Aboriginal children start off with better natural eyesight than non-indigenous children but by the time they reach adulthood they are six times more likely to be blind.
Date Published: 3 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
It’s not often we get called on to airlift one of our own, but that’s exactly what happened when RFDS Board Director David Honner suffered a near fatal chainsaw accident on his property near Dubbo.
Date Published: 13 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section is disappointed to learn that the Victorian Government has not awarded the Victorian Air Ambulance contract to the RFDS.
Date Published: 8 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
While Santa kindly brought rain to the many drought affected areas across the South Eastern Section for Christmas, he didn't bring a welcome break for the hardworking staff of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Date Published: 5 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Last October, on a day when the mercury topped 38
degrees, players took to the crease for the thirtieth Cooper Cup Cricket match.
Date Published: 1 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Australia Day – a day to celebrate the best things about being an Australian: lamingtons, thongs, hills hoists, kangaroos, and of course, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
The RFDS was founded over 80 years ago, and has grown to become an
Date Published: 4 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Book now for an exclusive outback tour for Royal Flying Doctor Service supporters and friends.
Date Published: 1 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section is pleased with today’s announcement that it has been awarded the tender for Air Ambulance services in NSW.
Today’s announcement by NSW Minister for Health Carmel Tebbutt will ensure tha
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Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Flying Doctor has strengthened its partnership with Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation in Broken Hill, helping to tackle the chronic diseases that affect the health of so many Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people in remote areas.
Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Young mum Michelle Dowsett feels exceptionally fortunate to be alive and very grateful to both the NSW ambulance service and the RFDS for saving her life.
Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Jake Williams loves a challenge. The Sydney based schoolboy has already received the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, he became a Young Endeavour in 2008 and earlier this year, when he was just 17, he embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. He rode a pos
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Date Published: 15 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Members of the Flying Doctor Society will have received a copy of the combined Annual Report/Honour Roll with this issue of the Flyer, showing strong growth for the RFDS South Eastern Section and a healthy surplus, all of which will be ploughed back
Date Published: 7 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service hosted a men’s health night recently in White Cliffs, a tiny opal mining community in far western New South Wales where most locals live underground because of the intense heat.
Date Published: 18 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
June Files and her band of merry cyclists set off from Yunta on 26 July with two goals in mind. Firstly to complete a 955 km bike ride across the South Australian Outback and secondly to raise enough funds to buy the Flying Doctor a brand new incubat
Date Published: 18 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
With only one doctor in town on the day three year old William Madden suffered a major epileptic fit, his mum Joan felt desperately worried. “William has suffered fits before, but nothing as serious as this. We called for an ambulance and they tried
Date Published: 28 Aug 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Hungerford Rodeo and Field Day is a popular annual event, regularly attracting crowds of several hundred people. Last October, local builder Thomas Saunders was among them.
Date Published: 28 Aug 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Our two new counsellors, based in Broken Hill, are gradually making headway with clients in remote areas, gaining the trust of people living in rural communities where independence is the norm.
Date Published: 29 Aug 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
A volunteer fire and rescue service captain who has raised almost $10,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the last year alone was one of the people recognised at the inaugural presentation of the Chevron-RFDS Spirit of the West Awards on Satur
Date Published: 14 Jul 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Experienced pilot injured in a light aircraft crash in a remote part of WA’s Goldfields region.
Date Published: 17 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Red Card for Rabbits and the Red Fox program is a way for rural communities to work together for maximum impact.
Date Published: 4 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The official opening of the new Muchea Livestock Centre was followed by a charity auction with proceeds going to the Royal Flying Doctor Service
Date Published: 3 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
TWENTY-one-years ago a determined group of volunteers got together to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Members of the Busselton RFDS volunteer fundraising committee met this month to celebrate the milestone over lunch.
Date Published: 2 Jun 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
A tale of adventure and piracy has inspired a retired Western Australian Physiotherapist to re-enact a trek through bush and along beaches, to Albany.
Date Published: 3 May 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
RFDS exhibition at State Library of WA opened at cocktail party hosted by Rio Tinto
Date Published: 29 Apr 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
5% Donation to RFDS on all sales of PolyCom used in airstrip maintenance or rebuilding.
Date Published: 9 Apr 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
A German tourist who was bitten on the foot by a brown snake has been treated by RFDS.
Date Published: 31 Mar 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
A Senior doctor at the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Meekatharra base has won a prestigious award for her work in Remote and Clinically Challenging Medicine.
Date Published: 23 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
RFDS Doctors and nurses were onboard rescue vessels to help swimmers during the race.
Date Published: 10 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Two aircraft pick up four men with burns after a pipe containing sulphuric acid burst at a chemical plant at Australind.
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Date Published: 9 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
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This stunning calendar features photography of RFDS in action around Australia.
Date Published: 4 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Royal Flying Doctor Service Rio Tinto Life Flight jet in the air
Date Published: 4 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
RFDS Rio Tinto Life Flight jet flies to Port Hedland in bid to save man's hands
Date Published: 17 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service will be sending its Rio Tinto Life Flight jet and a medical crew from Perth to evacuate a badly injured patient from Kununurra, after Tropical Cyclone Laurence forced the RFDS Derby base into lock down.
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Date Published: 14 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Busy Weekend for RFDS Jet
Date Published: 9 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Royal Flying Doctor Service called offshore after Seaman injured
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Date Published: 26 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service reaped the benefits of its new Rio Tinto Life Flight jet last night, saving about 17 hours of travel time and using one RFDS doctor and nurse crew instead of three.
Date Published: 10 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
“It was early in the morning and a Big Red male kangaroo came pelting down the dry creek bed towards me. He stopped and reared up onto his hind legs.”
‘RFDS on the road’ nurse Helen Collinson adds, “But then I saw that he was wearing a collar. I
Date Published: 4 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has flown two women and two children to hospital in Perth with serious injuries after a traffic crash in Port Hedland.
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Date Published: 2 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
There are grave fears for 23 people missing after their boat sank hundreds of nautical miles off the Cocos Islands
Date Published: 2 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Rio Tinto Life Flight Jet has flown from Perth to the Cocos Islands, and is currently conducting aerial searches for passengers who went missing after their boat sank in the ocean.
Date Published: 14 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service has made history by launching its first emergency medical jet service – and seriously ill or injured patients in regional areas will be the main beneficiaries.
Date Published: 29 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Maroomba Airlines in Perth has been awarded the contract to provide jet-related services for the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s new Rio Tinto Life Flight emergency medical jet, due to be launched next month.
Date Published: 20 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
In keeping with the traditions of the RFDS, which was founded by the Reverend John Flynn in 1928, the aircraft dedication – blessing of the aircraft to keep them safe and protected - will be conducted by the Reverend. Stuart Bonnington, Superintenden
Date Published: 8 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Student nurse Samantha McCormack has faced some unique challenges during her work placement with the ‘RFDS on the road’ Primary Health Care Program in the Pilbara.
Date Published: 1 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) of Australia is pleased to announce the launch of its electronic Health for Remote Australia (eHRA) project. The eHRA project introduces a new Electronic Medical Record to the RFDS’s primary care services
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Date Published: 31 Jul 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The loss by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of a Victorian State Government contract for the air ambulance service in that State will have no impact on the operations of the RFDS in Western Australia or its contracts with the WA Government.
Date Published: 8 Jun 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The efforts of employees from one of Australia’s largest gold companies Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) will make a big difference to patients who use the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia.