Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is one of the most respected providers of home nursing and healthcare in Australia. Every day, RDNS staff provide professional nursing and healthcare to more than 9,500 people throughout Greater Melbourne, some parts of rural Victoria, New South Wales and in Auckland, New Zealand. In any given year, RDNS delivers more than 1.7 million visits to over 33,000 people, mainly in their own homes.

RDNS offers a wide range of general and specialist care and operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The care provided by RDNS enables people to remain in their own homes, providing them with more independence, choice and control in relation to their healthcare. Other benefits include helping people to return home from a hospital stay more quickly, allowing people to remain close to family, carers and friends, and assisting people to regain their health in the familiarity and security of a place of their choosing.

RDNS staff number around 1,400, with over 1,000 nurses and 120 other staff providing personal care, who each year travel in excess of 8 million kilometres to deliver professional nursing and healthcare to those who require it.

RDNS is also at the forefront of developing innovative home healthcare programs to further enhance our existing high standards of client care.