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Annual Report 2010-2011 The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation was established in 1986 to help raise We’re on a journey towards a community of healthier kids – much-needed funds supporting groundbreaking research to find faster diagnoses, and your support is what keeps us moving forward. better treatments and ultimately cures for some of the most devastating As you’ll see in this report, your donations have With this funding, we’ve been able to contribute to childhood illnesses. Every year the Royal Children’s Hospital helps more than helped the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation research that is giving children like Aidan, our cover 30,000 children from all over Queensland, parts of Australia and overseas. reach some extraordinary milestones, not only in star, more years to live – and more reasons to smile. 2010-2011, but also over the past 25 years. With this funding, we’ve been able to bring laughter This year you helped to raise a record $14.1 million and hope, as well as healing, into more little lives. for groundbreaking medical research, life-changing And with your ongoing support, we can continue clinical projects, vital hospital and laboratory this journey of discovery and achievement to help equipment, and hospital and entertainment services generations of children to come. to make life a little easier and a lot more fun for children and their families. We hope that the stories of courage, commitment and success in this report will demonstrate the This brings the total raised over the life of the simple truth: your generosity is working wonders for Foundation to an incredible $193.41 million. sick kids. With this funding, our researchers have been Throughout this report, the term “this year” refers to able to tackle the illnesses and injuries facing the the 2010-2011 financial year. extraordinary kids whose stories feature in this report – and the thousands of other brave little people like them. Contents Overview ................................................................... 1 Milestones ................................................................. 2 Executive reports ...................................................... 4 Respiratory research ................................................. 8 Infectious diseases research ...................................12 Oncology research ..................................................14 Burns and trauma research .....................................16 Telemedicine research .............................................18 Cerebral palsy and rehabilitation research .............20 Nutrition research ...................................................22 Equipment ...............................................................24 Hospital and Entertainment Services overview ......26 Reaching out…across the state ..............................28 Reaching out…across the nation ............................30 Famous friends ........................................................31 Media spotlight .......................................................32 Our Vision: A community of healthier kids The Board ................................................................34 Our Mission: Working wonders for sick kids Corporate governance and compliance .................38 Financial summary ...................................................42 Bequests ..................................................................44 Contact us ...............................................................45 1 Milestones The Royal 1919 1962 1985 1990 2000 2007 2009 Children’s Hospital The Hospital’s school was The Brisbane Children’s The first paediatric liver The Children’s Nutrition The RCH Foundation The Centre of Excellence After years of planning, established. Today the Hospital Women’s transplantation in Australia Research Centre was Building was opened. The for Research into Cerebral the Queensland Children’s 1878 school remains a vital part Auxiliary was formed. This was performed at the established. Foundation contributed Palsy (now the Queensland Medical Research Institute Following several years of of the Royal Children’s committee, now called the Hospital. $5.2 million to the project. Cerebral Palsy and (QCMRI) was established, hard work and advocacy by Hospital. Cressbrook Committee, Rehabilitation Research bringing together The Queensland Liver 1992 In the same year the Mrs Mary McConnel, the continues the tradition Transplantation Service Rainbow Entertainment Centre) was established researchers in a range of Queensland’s first Bone Hospital for Sick Children of voluntary service and (QLTS) made historical Centre was completed. at the Hospital. Funding key paediatric research 1924 Marrow Transplant Unit opened on 11 March. support for the Hospital and seminal advances Later Club Rainbow and was made possible by an areas. The Foundation After almost 50 years was established at the Previously, children under begun with Mrs Mary in paediatric liver now the Wonder Factory, anonymous donor to the allocated 70% of its of operation under a Hospital. The Foundation the age of five could not McConnel. transplantation, including this space has been a Foundation. annual grants budget to voluntary committee, the funded a research be admitted to a hospital, the world’s first successful source of delight and life-changing research Hospital was brought fellowship for a visiting and older children were living related donor fun for patients and their conducted at QCMRI. under the control of 1971 specialist from the United 2007-2008 treated in adult wards. liver transplant, and the siblings for more than In the same year, when the State Government’s The Children’s Hospitals Kingdom. The Foundation helped to development in 1989 10 years. H1N1 (swine flu) was at Department of Health and Appeal was launched. This establish the Queensland of the liver cut-down In the same year, the its peak, the Hospital’s 1883 Home Affairs. was a coordinated appeal Children’s Tumour Bank technique now universally Foundation became the infectious diseases A new hospital building of the Courier-Mail and 2001 to support and promote known as the “Brisbane first Australian organisation experts developed an was completed in Herston. Telegraph papers, and research into childhood 1939 Technique”. to obtain tax deductibility The Foundation introduced easy diagnostic test which Funds donated by continued a long history status in Japan. A strong its Working Wonders cancer. The Hospital for Sick is now recognised as the generous members of the of press support for the relationship had been brand, encapsulating its Children became a most effective in the world. public were matched by Hospital, which exists to The Royal Children’s forged through the vision to ‘work wonders’ teaching hospital within the State Government to this day. provision of paediatric for sick kids through the new Faculty of Hospital Foundation raise the required £2,000. liver transplantation to medical research, Medicine at the University 1985 - 1986 Japanese children unable equipment, and services. of Queensland. 1979 The Foundation was to access this service in 1895 The Parents’ Lodge established to raise their own country, and The first injection of opened, funded by the 2002 1943 funds for the benefit of much-needed funds were diphtheria antitoxin Children’s Hospitals With Foundation funding, The Hospital’s name was Queensland’s sick children. raised for the construction was administered at the Appeal and the Royal the ‘Bug Detectives’ changed to the Brisbane of the new medical Hospital. Over the next Children’s Hospital developed a world-leading Children’s Hospital. building. four years, the mortality Women’s Auxiliary. Now 1986 one-hour test to diagnose The “Royal” prefix was rate for this dangerous known as Leonard Lodge, The Hospital’s new surgical meningococcal disease. bestowed later, in 1967. illness would drop from this service provides short- building opened. 1993 42% to 9%. term accommodation for The Woolworths Medical In the same year, the parents and families of Building was opened. 1986-1987 Hospital moved to another little patients. new home, the Lady The Foundation ran a 1994 Norman Wing. A public groundbreaking cause appeal, strongly supported marketing promotion The Coles Health Services by local newspapers, through Woolworths, Building was opened. contributed funds to Jack-the-Slasher and BCC stores, raising $211,934. the construction of 1997 this stately building, Telemedicine was which today houses the The Lady Norman Wing in the early 1900s and 1987 Foundation. (right) today. introduced at the Hospital. The Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Laboratory 1999 1896-1897 (now the SASVR Centre) The first x-rays were taken opened as a result of Foundation volunteers at the Hospital, only a generous funding by began staffing the matter of months after the Sir Albert Sakzewski Information Desks, to the discovery of x-rays in Foundation. assist families within the Germany was revealed in Hospital. early 1896. 2 Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Annual Report 2010-2011 3 Chairman’s This year we farewelled CEO’s retiring chairman Report Mr Colin Ryan Report This report provides an opportunity to acknowledge The Woolworths Building was opened in 1994 and Here at the Foundation, we are consistently inspired Telehealth research is shrinking the distance between those who have contributed to the achievements work immediately began on what would be the Coles by the dedication, courage and generosity of those the Royal Children’s Hospital and