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Flying Doctor Outreach Care Program to close 31 March 2025

26 Nov 2024

Our Flying Doctor Outreach Care Program was established in May 2021 to deliver community-based activities that supported mental health and wellbeing in communities across East Gippsland affected by the 2019/2020 bushfires.

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Caring for our rural and remote communities

Caring for our rural and remote communities

12 Jan 2021

In spite of everything that has happened over the past year, our generous community of supporters has enabled us to continue to help thousands of people in their time of need.

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Bushfire Counselling and Support Service wins at Gippsland Primary Health Awards

Winners! Bushfire Counselling and Support Service wins at Gippsland Primary Health Awards

03 Dec 2020

We are pleased to share that along with our partners, Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV), Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria (RFDS) has won the Integration & Partnerships category at the 2020 Gippsland Primary Health Awards. This award acknowledges our collaborative work in delivering the Bush

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Annual Report 2019/20

2019/20 RFDS Victoria Annual Report

01 Dec 2020

We are proud to present the 2019/20 RFDS Victoria Annual Report.

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AGM Forum: Rising to the Challenge

RFDS Victoria 2020 AGM Forum: Rising to the Challenge

26 Nov 2020

Watch the recording of our first ever online AGM Forum to hear how we have rallied and adapted to an incredibly challenging year, and the opportunities

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Telehealth goes national

Flying Doctor Telehealth goes national

17 Nov 2020

Commonwealth Government funding is enabling RFDS Victoria to take its telehealth platform national.

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Badly injured and in the middle of nowhere

02 Nov 2020

Earlier this year, a 26-year-old woman named Skrollan was hiking with friends at Dolerite Gorge in the Kimberley. One second, she was having the time of her life, the next she was lying on rocks at the bottom of the gorge, in terrible pain and unable to move.

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Better ageing

Better Ageing with RFDS Victoria

29 Oct 2020

RFDS Victoria has been the beneficiary of a portion of funding from the Australian Sports Commission, awarded to RFDS Australia, to create and run a National Rural and Remote Active Ageing Program.

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Flexible teams

Flying Doctor teams unite

15 Oct 2020

The significant disruptions to ‘business as normal’, paired with increased pressure on some teams, has meant that RFDS Victoria’s staff has needed to be flexible in meeting the needs of the organisation in 2020.

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