Flying doctor spreads its wings to primary health care

Manager Jackie Hanniver says the Royal Flying Dotor Service can expand its primary care service. (Stuart Walmsley/AAP PHOTOS)

The scent of jet fuel hangs heavy in the air as weary doctors, psychiatrists and a physio all pile out of a small plane. 

They stretch while setting foot on the Broken Hill tarmac, several hours since going out bush to be run ragged at fly-in, fly-out clinics.