Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

Last week on Employee Appreciation Day, RFDS SA/NT held its annual Values Awards, recognising exceptional individuals and teams who have exemplified the shared values of care, collaboration, integrity and innovation. We take enormous pride in how these values drive our RFDS employees and their engagements with patients, families, health partners, donors, volunteers, peers and the broader community in SA and the NT. Congratulations to the 2025 RFDS SA/NT Values Awards winners! ❤️ Care Award Annie Godwin | Remote Area Nurse Belinda Toy | Senior Financial Accountant 🤝 Collaboration Award Dr Neil Thomson | Retrieval Doctor ⚖️ Integrity Award Quinn Mooney | Facilities Coordinator 💡 Innovation Award Philip Remilton | Deputy Head of Flight Operations 🎯 Purpose Award (team award) Alice Springs Engineering Team 🏅 Chief Executive’s Excellence Award Joh Talman | Operations Manager, Alice Springs Thank you to our entire workforce for keeping the Flying Doctor flying.

Congratulations to our own Brannan Clarke, who has successfully completed his aircraft engineering apprenticeship! 🔧 Brannan Clarke started at the RFDS Adelaide Base in January 2020 and late last year completed his Diploma in Aeroskills (Mechanical) including all the theoretical and practical training. To support his transition from apprentice to licensed aircraft engineer, Brannan is off to our Alice Springs Base to begin a six-month secondment. After four years of hard work and dedication, we look forward to having Brannan as part of the Flying Doctor Team for many years to come. ✈️ 📲 Current RFDS career opportunities: https://lnkd.in/gRC_H5i

Meet Sophie and Tim - our two new engineering apprentices in WA👋 Sophie has a longstanding interest in mechanics and engineering, and came across aircraft engineering through skydiving. She chose to apply for an apprenticeship with us because she understands how vital the RFDS is for the Western Australian community. Tim has been working in our RFDS WA Stores team and knows the ins and outs of the service. We are so excited to see him develop throughout the apprenticeship. We are thrilled to have them join the engineering team! ❤️💙

All aboard for today's 'bush run' across Far North SA! ☀️ Bush runs (our scheduled fly-in clinics) offer outback patients a complete face-to-face primary healthcare service. 🩺 📍 RFDS Port Augusta Base

Just the other week over 30+ RFDS fundraising team members from across the country came together in Sydney for dinner, kicking off the Fundraising Institute Australia Conference in style! 🍽️💙 Our RFDS Corporate Partnerships leads also gathered for our annual national partnerships workshop—a chance to reflect, celebrate eveyone's collective efforts, and push their thinking forward. A huge thank you to HCF Australia , one of RFDS' Major National Partners, for hosting us at their HQ. And an extra shoutout to Richie from Ensemble Strategy , who facilited the day and challenged everyone to think bigger and bolder! 🚀 #FIAConference #RFDS #Fundraising

Zoe 👋 one of WA's newest Retrieval Nurses. She is the proud recipient of an RFDS Nursing and Midwifery scholarship, which meant she had the financial support to reduce her hours at work while completing her midwifery qualification. Welcome to the RFDS Zoe ✈️💙 Read more about her journey to the RFDS 👉https://lnkd.in/gPW5BrvU

We're always proud to help the next generation of medical practitioners so it was exciting to host a tour for third-year students from the University of Sydney School of Rural Health at our Dubbo Base recently. 🧑⚕️🩺💙 Thanks for visiting and we hope we might see you back wearing RFDS colours in the future!

The ultimate flying intensive care unit. 🛩️ How our Pilatus PC–24 is set up? Our new Pilatus PC-24 aero medical aircraft are the first of their kind in Australia and around the world. These ‘emergency wards’ in our skies have the capacity for three stretchered patients and two medical teams consisting of four doctors and nurses. These jets have the capability of landing and taking off on unsealed runways as short as 800m and can halve existing flight times and travel longer distances. Based in Jandakot and Broome in WA, and Adelaide in SA, the addition of these new jets will boost the overall fleet capacity for response times within all regions. ✈️Number in RFDS Fleet: 5 ✈️Maximum altitude: 45,000 feet ✈️Maximum speed: 787 km per hour ✈️Range: 3,610 km ✈️Cabin dimensions: Width: 1.69m, Length: 7m, Height of 1.55m Read more about our fleet: https://lnkd.in/gAC36k7g

We're very grateful to announce that our longest serving major partner in SA/NT, Beach Energy Ltd, has signed on to support the RFDS for another three years. 🗣️ “Our people know firsthand how important this critical service is – having recently had one of our own staff fall unwell and require the Flying Doctor." – Brett Woods, Beach Energy Managing Director and CEO Read more about our partnership: https://lnkd.in/gHzJFSNr

🗣️ “If you can retrieve in the Northern Territory, particularly in the Top End of Australia, you can retrieve anywhere in the world.” These are the words of Professor Dianne Stephens OAM, whose accomplished career as an intensive care doctor has included leading the ICU response for the 2002 Bali Bombings, serving for the RAAF in Iraq and working through the 2016 Cyclone Winston in Fiji. These days, Professor Stephens leads the School of Medicine at Charles Darwin University, which last year celebrated the inaugural graduates of Australia’s first Master of Aeromedical Retrieval qualification – a program developed alongside the RFDS. More on our partnership: https://lnkd.in/gxHEJVRx