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By fundraising for the Royal Melbourne Hospital, you are supporting one of Victoria’s largest providers of cancer care, treating more than 37,000 patients every year.
We believe that every person facing cancer deserves the best possible care: not just world-class treatment, but also comfort, connection, and dignity.
In 2026, the RMH has identified more than $43,000 worth of patient-focused projects and equipment that will directly enhance care across multiple wards and services. With your help, just some of the projects Dry July seeks to fund include:
• 100 Patient Care Packs supporting patients attending the Complex Wound Clinic, offering essential items that support healing and recovery.
• Purpose-designed bereavement support bags – providing a personalised, practical way to provide comfort to families who have lost a relative, ensuring their belongings are returned to families with dignity.
• Specialised medical equipment – including devices which help clinicians locate veins more easily, improving patient comfort.
• Exercise equipment for patients – supporting patients in Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant services.
• Providing high-protein, healthy comfort food options – supporting patients receiving treatment in the Day Medical Unit.
• Ward equipment – including adjustable overbed tables that improve comfort, accessibility and independence during treatment and recovery.
Together, these projects demonstrate how every Dry July donation helps create a better experience for patients and families at the RMH.
Supporting the RMH as a Leading Cancer Provider
As a founding partner of the VCCC Alliance — Australia’s first comprehensive cancer centre — bringing together top hospitals, research institutes, and universities to drive innovation in cancer care, research, and education.
Our cancer services span a wide range of specialties including breast, lung, gastrointestinal, neurological, urological, head and neck, and skin cancers. As a major teaching hospital, we combine cutting-edge treatment, world-class research, and compassionate care to support patients through every stage of their cancer journey.
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Brett MacDonald CEO of Dry July at opening ceremony |
All good things come…Finally the roof-top garden has been opened and is available to patients at Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant ward at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Over $250,000 in funds raised by Dry July participants went into this beautiful and calming facility.
This space allows our patients’ and their families to connect with nature and the great outdoors, to give their thoughts and minds some respite, and to encourage a sense of community, in a place that is away from home.
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Saving patients travel time and costs at The Royal Melbourne Hospital |
On behalf of the staff and patients at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, thank you so much for the grant for the oncolology telemedicine room. The project is now complete.
The telehealth team were honoured to be offered the opportunity to facilitate innovation of care delivery for oncology outpatients through funding from the Dry July Foundation.
With the generous support of the Dry July donation we have been able to purchase several key pieces of infrastructure to enable easy access to videoconferencing for our oncology patients.
In addition to telehealth being available in every outpatient room, the oncology team can also perform multidisciplinary meetings in their usual group meeting rooms via videoconference. Professor Kate Drummond (brain cancer surgeon) and Dr Kathryn Field( medical oncologist) have been our lead clinical champions in tele-oncology.
Through their contributions we have successfully saved cancer patients travel time and costs.
We look forward to promoting increased utilisation of telehealth capabilities in oncology.
We are grateful to the Dry July Foundation for assisting us in this journey.
Your support and commitment to The Royal Melbourne Hospital is so invaluable to us and we thank you again!
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Furnishings for Ward 7B at The Royal Melbourne Hospital |
Ward 7B is a 32 bed ward providing cancer services at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
On behalf of the staff and patients at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, we just wish to say a huge thank you for your support for Ward 7B in the 2017 Dry July campaign. We were absolutely thrilled to receive these funds and have attached below some feedback from the ward.
Couches: Thank you for your support in gathering funds to support our patients, families and ward environment. The couches for the patients' family room will provide seating for patients and families at the end of the corridor where there is a view over Parkville and the family room for time out for patients. This will create a lovely space on the ward.
Clocks: The clocks were recommended to us by a patient. The ones that were purchased are different in each of the rooms and silent. The patients are very happy with this as they can often minimum of 3 weeks as an inpatient in their rooms.
Sit Stand desk: The sit stand desk is to support patients who are receiving treatment and working. It is a table that can be adjusted as a work station and is easy to clean so other patients can use. It fits a small computer or laptop.
Recliners: The recliners have provided so much comfort and support for patients. These a designed to also reduce pressure injuries. Patients when they are unwell, are able to still sit out of bed in these chairs and can easily be transferred back to bed.
Your support and commitment to The Royal Melbourne Hospital is so invaluable to us and we thank you again! We look forward to updating you again in due course.
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Palliative Care Refurbishment at Royal Melbourne Hospital |
Royal Melbourne Hospital used Dry July funding toward the refurbishment of the Palliative Care Ward. A number of day care services were relocated, freeing up space in the ward which was converted into an additional 4 single rooms, dramatically increasing services.
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Great bake-sale results for Dry July campaign. |
We'd like to extend a big thanks to an extra special group of girls, who on Friday raised over $1300 for their Dry July Campaign. How did they do it? A bake sale!
Oncology nurses Peta, Fiona and Hannah summoned their friends and colleagues to bake a delicious array of treats, which were quickly snapped up Royal Melbourne Hospital staff. The cause is very close to their hearts, and we couldn't be more grateful that they chose to give back.
Thank you girls for standing up for cancer - you have made a real impact in helping patients and their families in their time of need.
