Royal District Nursing Service (South Australia)

The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is a not-for-profit community health and care provider with headquarters in Keswick, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It has progressed through a series of iterations:

It was established in 1894 in South Australia as the District Trained Nursing Society (DTNS).

In 1937 District and Bush Nursing Society of South Australia

In 1965 Royal District and Bush Nursing Society of South Australia

In 1973 Royal District Nursing Society of South Australia.

In 1993 Royal District Nursing Service of SA.

In 2011 the organisation merged with Silver Chain Group, and is now known as RDNS Silverchain in South Australia and Silverchain throughout the rest of Australia.