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The Flying Doctor Podcast Wins Best Branded Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards 2024
The Flying Doctor Podcast has done it again! With over 600,000 downloads and 118 episodes, this beloved podcast has just been crowned Best Branded Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards 2024.
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Stay safe this harvest season
22 Oct 2024For the past 96 years, the nurses, doctors and pilots of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) have been no strangers to Western Australian grain-growers.
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A future engineer visits the hangar
21 Oct 2024Our engineers were proud to work alongside year 12 Kent Street High School student, Harrison, during his work experience in our Jandakot hangar.
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SA Government announces new funding agreement with RFDS to enhance response times and boost staff
17 Oct 2024The RFDS has secured an historic new agreement with the SA Government to significantly boost aircraft services and staff enabling faster patient transfers.
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#113 Annie got a goat stuck in her throat!
17 Oct 2024Annie and her son Henry were on a remote, Flinders Ranges road trip, when the single mum got a piece of goat stuck in her throat.
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#112 Wildflowers, frog tea and a goanna in a hangar!
10 Oct 2024Former RFDS base manager, Alison Fox and her husband (and current RFDS pilot) Bruce Carroll take us on a glorious flight down their Meekatharra RFDS memory lane.
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Laura's army
10 Oct 2024Laura McKenney was a 21 year old nursing student when she was involved in a near-fatal car rollover in the southern wheatbelt town of Pingrup and was retrieved by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Ann overcomes breast cancer to secure dream job with the RFDS
08 Oct 2024After working so hard to achieve the necessary qualifications to become an RFDS Flight Nurse, Ann Rahn didn't let breast cancer stop her from securing her dream role.
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Flying Doctor Podcast Shortlisted for 2024 Australian Podcast Awards!
04 Oct 2024We are thrilled and deeply humbled to announce that the Flying Doctor Podcast has been shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Podcast Awards! This milestone is a testament to the power of storytelling, the resilience of the people of the Australian Outback.
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#111 A swag of snake stories to keep you safe this summer
03 Oct 2024Snake season is here again and the Flying Doctor podcast has some 'snakey tales' and 'incredible patient snake stories' to share.
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The flying dentist
30 Sep 2024Dentist Vincenzo Figliomeni had been working in an on-call emergency role at Perth Children’s Hospital when he started to see a worrying trend.
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Shared history
27 Sep 2024It’s a true legend of the bush that inspired the Reverend John Flynn’s vision to create what eventually became the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Outback adventure ends with flight home by the Flying Doctor
27 Sep 2024You never know when you might need a service you've never used before. That was the situation for Luke, a senior corporate executive in Brisbane, whose brief adventure in the outback led to his first call to the Flying Doctor.
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#110 Student nurse Laura was told she'd never walk or talk again.
26 Sep 2024WA's Laura McKenney was a fun-loving student nurse, enjoying a night out with friends, when a catastrophic car accident changed her life forever.
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#109 Why Farmer Brendan swam the English Channel…twice!
20 Sep 2024After struggling with his mental health, Broken Hill grazier Brendan Cullen started long distance swimming on Menindee Lakes, as preparation for his 2022 swim across the English Channel.
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Operation Mitchell Plateau
19 Sep 2024It was a team effort when the RFDS was called to retrieve a woman who broke her leg hiking in one of WA’s most hard-to-reach locations.
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