- Foreword
- Message from Board Chair & Chief Executive
- 2023 Clinical Research Fellowships
- A message from the RBWH Foundation
- A message from The Common Good
- Metro North Research Excellence Awards
- Research stories
- ICU of the Future
- New approach ruling out pulmonary embolism
- Improving access to healthcare in the prison environment
- Safety and efficacy of peripheral versus centrally administered vasopressor infusion
- COVID-19 learnings set to inform future policy
- Telomere study could provide key to treating debilitating lung disease
- Productive Ward – Releasing time to care
- Brain organoids to revolutionise epilepsy treatment
- Reducing weight stigma in maternity care
- Parkinson’s Disease Check-In program giving people a voice
- Trial brings new treatment for common heart condition
- Teledentistry study shows promise in residential aged care
- Research fellow to boost Oral Health evidence-based care
- Study explores best approach to surgery for painful shoulder osteoarthritis
- The development and pilot testing of a stroke telerehabilitation decision toolkit
- Metro North Health delivers world-first breast scaffold surgery
- Regenerative jawbone hard at work care of collaborative Metro North Health approach
- Jamieson Trauma Institute leads e-scooter and e-bike injury research to drive community safety
- Forgotten fathers in pregnancy and obstetrics
- Putting the Spotlight on nursing and midwifery research
- Improving the health self-efficacy of stroke survivors
A message from the RBWH Foundation
Giving takes many forms and shapes. It has many faces and many motivations.
With the support of our incredible community of givers, the RBWH Foundation is proud to support Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), STARS, Redcliffe Hospital, and other prestigious Herston institutes, to go above and beyond in the provision of world-leading research and improving patient outcomes.
RBWH Foundation named inaugural Philanthropic Foundation of the Year
In 2022, the RBWH Foundation was honoured to be named inaugural Philanthropic Foundation of the Year by the State’s leading philanthropic body, the Queensland Community Foundation. We dedicate this award to the 8,000-strong Team Royal health workers and our Foundation donors. It also reflects the nearly 40 years of philanthropic support to research innovation and advances in patient care.
The Extraordinary Power of Giving – Our inspirational donors
RBWH Foundation donors include people such as Valerie and Colin, who see giving as their legacy of hope through medical research. The retired couple tragically lost both their adult children to cancer and other loved ones have been affected by diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
The couple chose to support RBWH Foundation, as well as 19 other charities, for reasons close to their heart.
“Losing your children is not what one expects in life, and it has left us with a huge void,” explained Valerie.
“To honour their memory, we decided to donate to medical research now, hoping that with the wonderful research and breakthroughs other families would not have to endure the loss and pain we feel every day.”
The couple’s impact has been extraordinary. Their focus at RBWH is MND and Emergency Cardiology. Their generous donation provided the RBWH Emergency Cardiology Research program with base data that enabled the research team to be successful in this year’s highly competitive Medical Research Future Fund round.
There truly is no greater generosity than that which saves a life
In 2022, with the commitment of the broader community, the RBWH Foundation distributed just over $5,630,000 across Herston. Of that, $3,165,000 was directed to medical research and $1,156,000 to community and staff education.
$125,940
Team Royal – Wellbeing Collaboration
$909,00
Herston Infectious Diseases Institute
$713,600
RBWH project grants
$200,000
e-PMD injury Surveillance through Jamieson Trauma Institute
$454,080
WeCU Intensive Care Unit (ICU) family care program
$125,095
Redcliffe Hospital research and patient care
Extraordinary Opportunities Grants
The RBWH Foundation took a bold new approach to our $520,000 Giving Day grant round. While continuing RBWH Foundation’s strong commitment to medical and health research, the Extraordinary Opportunities Grants have embraced projects such as patient education, care leading up to treatment, support of family members, and the creation of healthcare resources – all projects which touch thousands of lives each year.
We look forward to sharing with you the outcomes of these fifteen new projects, which include:
- Evaluation of 3D printed artificial eyes for orbital prostheses.
- An opportunity for the RBWH to become the first public hospital to introduce Hydrostatic Casting in Prosthetics, potentially reducing by half the time it takes for patients to get back on their feet.
- An opportunity for the RBWH to be the first hospital in Australia to deliver a post Intensive Care Unit support program, both online and in person, for patients and their families.
Grant Seeking
The RBWH Foundation is also a committed grant seeking organisation and in 2022, successfully secured $450,000 in funding for projects which stretch across Herston and Redcliffe Hospital. These grants vary from specialist maternity bereavement training, to welcome packs for adolescent and young adult cancer patients, support for first responders who engage with military and veteran suicide, and research to reduce inappropriate medications for low back pain in the Emergency Department.
To our dedicated and tireless medical and clinician researchers–we thank you on behalf of the entire Foundation. Thank you for what you do for our community. You inspire us each and every day through your skill, leadership, care and commitment.
The RBWH Foundation helps make many Metro North research initiatives possible