Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

We are thrilled to celebrate two years of partnership with Isuzu UTE Australia in support of healthier people and communities across remote, rural, and regional Australia! In this time, our Aeromedical Simulators have attended more than 430 community events across the country. Thank you Isuzu UTE Australia for helping to keep our simulator teams safe on the road and through often rugged outback terrain. #RFDS #FlyingDoctor #IsuzuUTE #IsuzuDMAX

Today is Close the Gap Day, an opportunity for the Australian community to stand together with First Australians to demand health equality for all. Almost 60% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live outside major cities, in rural and remote areas. The Royal Flying Doctor Service is privileged to work with and provide services to many peoples and communities. As a healthcare organisation we are committed to Close the Gap and playing our part to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are proud of our work with partner organisations, including in efforts to continue building the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rural health workforce, and providing critical healthcare services.

Baby on board—literally! ✈👶 When Joelene went into labor at just 31 weeks, she never imagined her little one would make an airborne entrance mid-flight! With the Sydney skyline below and an RFDS midwife by her side, baby Indi arrived before the wheels even touched the ground. Buckle up for this sky-high miracle on episode 125 of the Flying Doctor Podcast. 🎧 Listen or read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gx3hXe8Q

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!