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Donate now Foundation

Your generosity ensures that world-class healthcare is accessible to everyone in our community. Because of you, patients receive life-saving care, advanced treatments, and compassionate support when it matters most.

Donate monthly Foundation

Fuel the future of patient-centred care. Your monthly donation ensures that world-class healthcare is accessible to everyone in our community.

Donate monthly Foundation

Fuel the future of patient-centred care. Your monthly donation ensures that world-class healthcare is accessible to everyone in our community.

Donate monthly Foundation

Fuel the future of patient-centred care. Your monthly donation ensures that world-class healthcare is accessible to everyone in our community.

Donate monthly Foundation

Fuel the future of patient-centred care. Your monthly donation ensures that world-class healthcare is accessible to everyone in our community.

Kidney Surgery RMH Service

We provide elective, emergency and kidney transplantation surgery for people with kidney disease or those wanting to donate a kidney.

Swabs required for research to develop point-of-care testing for infectious diseases Research study

ZiP Diagnostics requires human samples for research into developing point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic tests for a range of infectious diseases.

Corpus Medicorum Foundation

Corpus Medicorum is a Melbourne-based orchestra of doctors, medical students and health professionals that helps to raise funds for lung cancer research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH).

Don’s lasting impact on ICU nursing Foundation

Don's memory lives on through his family, friends, and the Don Brown Conference Fund, which raises funds for the education and training of ICU nurses.

Kidney Transplantation RMH Service

We provide elective, emergency and kidney transplantation surgery for our patients.

Ways to support us Foundation

There are many ways in which you can help the Royal Melbourne Hospital advance health for everyone, every day. 

Experts stumped as head and neck cancer cases surge among Australian women News article

Head and neck cancer cases among Australian women have increased significantly over the past 30 years, affecting even those who have never smoked or consumed alcohol heavily.

Donated ICU clothes helping other patients get home safe News article

Losing a loved one is an incredibly sad time, but some families whose loved ones have died in our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are choosing to give back in a way that is helping other patients get home faster, and with dignity. 

Living donors

We perform many kidney transplants from living donors. A living donor is someone who elects to donate a kidney to another person, often a relative or close friend. Sometimes the recipient is unknown to the donor – this is known as a non-directed or altruistic donation.

The RMH patient, Elias Frantzeskos celebrates DonateLife Week News article

Elias Frantzeskos came into the world 7 weeks early with poor function of his kidney.

Thank you Brianna and our community News article

Brianna (front) and her family with Chief Executive Prof Shelley Dolan, Emergency Department Director A/Prof Mark Putland, and the RMH Foundation Executive Director Sue Parkes.

The RMH neurosurgeons give new life to mum-to-be News article

Mum-to-be Susan was 12 weeks into her first pregnancy when she started experiencing migraines.

Teresa’s journey with the RMH’s Head and Neck cancer team News article

Unpack Teresa's journey at the RMH that led her to raise awareness for research and patient support in the RMH's Dry July campaign.

Dry July ambassadors’ special return for hub opening News article

Dry July ambassadors for the RMH returned to the Parkville site this month to celebrate the opening of a new hub supporting our cancer patients.

Study hopes to end stigma for people living with type 1 diabetes News article

More than 4 in 5 people with diabetes have experienced stigma while living with their condition.