The RFDS in WA
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The sky diaries
Retrieval Nurse John Howes has marked an incredible 30 years of service with the RFDS, caring for thousands of patients in that time.
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Parker's Story
16 Apr 2024Last year the Galloway family were holidaying in Esperance when they were faced with every parent’s worst nightmare.
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Saturday night snakebite
25 Mar 2024For long-haul truck driver Lee, Saturday nights are usually spent behind the wheel on lonely stretches of highway, but one such night in March took a turn, when he had to be flown from to Perth by the Flying Doctor.
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Ella's outback dash
21 Mar 2024Ella Reindler is one of very few pregnant women who can say they drove themself to hospital behind the wheel of a prime mover.
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Clinical Leader of the Year
19 Mar 2024RFDS WA Head of Nursing Paul Ingram has been named Clinical Leader of the Year at the WA Rural Health Awards.
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The Flying Nurse
19 Mar 2024Lisa Killian is an RFDS Primary Health Care Nurse based in Broome. She has lived in the Kimberley and central Australia for the past 14 years, working in a variety of nursing roles.
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Meet Dan Byles
14 Mar 2024Dan Byles has been the Organisational Resilience Lead for the RFDS WA since 2021.
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Trains, planes and the RFDS
12 Mar 2024Doctor Jig is accustomed to working inside the tight space of an RFDS aircraft, but one retrieval saw him treating an unwell passenger within the confines of the iconic Indian Pacific train.
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Road to recovery - Bella's story
08 Mar 2024Bella Howe’s life changed on a wild winter’s day in July 2022. She was a spectator at a dirt bike race in the Wheatbelt town of Brookton when a rider lost control on a jump.
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