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A Scholarship Opportunity of a Lifetime
Each year, the RFDS Tasmania Scholarship program offers Tasmanian medical and dental students the chance to experience firsthand the realities of delivering care in remote and rural Australia.
More detailsThe accidental psychologist
For some, working in healthcare is a lifelong dream. For Dr Tim Driscoll it was a happy accident, stumbling upon the profession while working abroad. Now Tim helps hundreds of Queenslanders improve their mental health each year.
Narrogin woman Ann McLeish steps up again for her Flying Doctor
The one and only Ann McLeish is back, walking 185km between Field Days from Dongara to Newdegate to raise vital funds and awareness of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia.
RFDS lands on Channel 7
Five years in the making, the new TV drama, RFDS, finally airs across Australia.
Real RFDS soars to new heights
The latest annual patient and aviation statistics reveal a total of 12,319 patients were flown to emergency or specialist care by the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) in the 2020/21 financial year.
Give Them Wings scholarship 2021 winners announced
This year, RFDS Victoria awarded six Give Them Wings scholarships to very deserving rural health care students from across the state.
A flight like no other
“I really didn’t want to put them out, so I told them it's all good, I'm a platinum flyer so I can sort the flight out myself. They pretty quickly told me I would be flying with the Flying Doctor.”
Back to the outback from Bankstown
New Non-Emergency Patient Transport service takes off from Bankstown.
A nurse's life in the sky
From finding a career to finding love, in her 20 years with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) Nurse Manager Justine Powell has quite a few interesting tales to tell.
The little-known history of the $20 note
There's a good change you've got a $20 in your wallet right now, but not many know the real story behind the man on the red note. His name is John Flynn and it all started back in 1917.
Terence completes the cycle
“I had a massive, sudden, incredible pain in the back of my head. I knew that something had happened.”
Bourke and Wills territory safe at last
Where once there was nothing, the RFDS Cooper Basin Clinic now offers locals everything ‘from dental to mental’ health care
Outback vaccinations underway
Government and outback communities placing trust in RFDS to quell pandemic
