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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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Creating pathways to rural and remote medicine
23 May 2019Funded by the Department of Health, The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) in partnership with Cairns Hospital have facilitated medical intern placements for Post Graduate Year 1 junior doctors.
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Expanding after-hours telehealth
23 May 2019It has been 10 months since we expanded our telehealth services from our Cairns Base to cover weekend hours. In this short period of time, the addition of this service has demonstrated significant improvements in access to remote Primary Health Care.
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Strengthening our partnerships
23 May 2019Recently RFDS have had the privilege of signing two Memorandum of Understandings with the South West Hospital and Health Service and Southern Queensland Rural Health.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service Regional Service Award 2019 Finalists announced
23 May 2019Recognising our rural and regional young achievers and community contributors
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Spotlight shone on RFDS Narrogin auxiliaries
22 May 2019“The community support and gratitude for the Flying Doctor has been overwhelming and I’m very proud to represent such an important service.
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RFDS enters jet age with game-changer in aeromedical care
22 May 2019The communities of South Australia and the Northern Territory will soon be cared for 24/7 by the world’s first purpose-built aeromedical jet, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24.
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2019 Local Hero recipients
22 May 2019Now in its fourth year, the RFDS Local Hero Awards give the RFDS (Queensland Section) an opportunity to acknowledge and thank those incredible good Samaritans, volunteers and fundraisers who go out of their way to ensure the Flying Doctor will be around for another 91 years.
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Young jockey airlifted with critical injuries
22 May 2019We’ll always be thankful that the Flying Doctor was there when I needed help.
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Flying Doctor and IGA unveil aeromedical aircraft
21 May 2019This afternoon the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Central Operations unveiled its Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) branded aeromedical aircraft in recognition of IGA’s new, three-year major sponsorship of the life-saving service.
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Meet Port Hedland Flying Doctor Sanjeet Chana
17 May 2019“As a Brit working in Australia for the first time, the Gibb River Road sits as a must-see, an iconic route in an amazing part of the country. I’m really looking forward to staying at cattle stations, visiting remote communities and meeting the people who live there.
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Kalamunda Bushies ride to support the Flying Doctor
17 May 2019"When the opportunity arose to help one of our fellow agencies in the emergency services link, it was a no brainer.
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RFDS Celebrates Ninety-One Years
15 May 2019Ninety-one years ago today, the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service was formed. Two days later the first ever Flying Doctor took flight. Today we celebrate how far the RFDS has come over the past nine decades, and we consider what else needs to be done to further Flynn's vision.
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When every second counts...
08 May 2019For a baby born at just 24 weeks, there’s a 40 per cent chance that the baby will not survive.
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Off duty Flight Nurse saves life on commercial flight
03 May 2019After visiting family in Perth on his days off, Flight Nurse Ben never expected to help save a life on his commercial flight home to Port Hedland.
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Adelaide Miethke and the School of the Air
02 May 2019While travelling to Alice Springs, Adelaide noticed the shyness of outback children. The idea of ‘bridging the lonely distance” seized her mind. She devised the idea of using the Flying Doctors two-way radio to give education talks to children in outback Australia.
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