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The Children’s Hospital Trust Annual Report The Fundraising Arm of the Red Cross War Memorial Hospital 2006 Contents A very special Hospital for very special patients Donations Report – The year in review Trusts & Foundations The Children’s Hospital Trust Corporate Commitment The role of the Children's Hospital Trust Gifts in Kind (GIK) The Children’s Hospital Trust Vision Statement Eventful Fundraising Governance of the Children's Hospital Trust The Government’s contribution – A Public Private Partnership Helping Our Children Get Better – The Hospital Staff Views Do Children Need A Dedicated Hospital? Getting Our Children Home Where They Belong The Chairman’s Report Restoring Faith O.P.E.R.A.T.I.O.N. Theatre Major Supporters Financial Review How to support the Trust Independent Auditor’s Report The Team Income Statement Balance Sheet Board of Trustees and Patrons Statement of Changes in Trust Fund Cash Flow Statement Notes to Financial Statements Detailed Income Statement Income Pie Chart Income and Expenditure Graph The idea to build the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital goes back to the Second World War when a group of South African soldiers of all races resolved that once they had returned home they A Very Special Hospital would create a place of healing to honour their fallen comrades. For years they contributed part of 1 each month’s salary to a special fund and once back on South African soil, planned the Hospital for Very Special Patients together with the Red Cross Society and Cape Provincial Government. A Very Special Hospital for Very Special Patients A Very Special Hospital for Very Special Patients a wide range of sub-specialties performed during the past year practitioners and specialists in order to recover. The Hospital alone. But despite the enormous working in both the public and has the skills to provide this level workload the Hospital steadfastly private sectors throughout South of care and, importantly, the upholds its own admirable tenet Africa. Even the general public has professional staff believe that that no patient should ever be direct access to the Hospital only through teamwork and by turned away. through its invaluable Poison harnessing all the medical Centre hotline. expertise needed can you really Despite the great call on the maximise the chances of a Hospital’s services the professional In association with the University of Child’s recovery. staff still manage to continue an Cape Town’s Health Sciences The Hospital had relatively Although the Hospital enjoys than just a major teaching hospital. active programme of outreach, Faculty, the Hospital is a major universal acclaim, it is many It is undoubtedly now a very But if the Hospital does much to transferring paediatric skills and centre of learning, with the School humble beginnings when different things to many different valuable, national, provincial and restore health and maintain hope, knowledge to nurse practitioners of Child and Adolescent Health it opened in 1956, but people. For the countless tiny even continental asset. the number of patients needing its in rural settings, doctors in small (SCAH) on the campus. A wide patients it has cured it will always today, 50 years on, it is the services and the number of town hospitals and to fellow range of paediatric disciplines is be a place of miracles; for the The Hospital’s young patients cornerstone of paediatric parents needing comfort and specialists in large regional taught and important medical parents and families of these come from throughout South health care in southern patients it will remain a bastion of Africa and from countries beyond guidance grows steadily every hospitals, both in this and research is done here into the Africa, not only treating hope, a place of caring and of our borders. The majority are year. This leaves the Hospital facing neighbouring provinces. In diseases of Childhood. This comfort. For the many nurses, from poor and marginalised extremely sick Children a continual battle to keep up with addition, the Hospital is something research is particularly relevant doctors and specialists it has communities and more than increasing demands. It is a of an umbilical cord in the sense because it is set in the South with great skill, success trained, and often still nurtures, it half are under a year old. They relentless battle, a battle the staff that its professional staff provides African context and, as such, and commitment, but is a cradle of learning, the leader rank among the sickest of sick must face every day. 250 000 telephonic advice and support on contributes to the advancement in the field of paediatric teaching Children who, almost without training others to treat on the African continent. And for exception, require highly patients were treated here and the diagnosis and treatment of of Children’s health in developing them as well. our country as a whole it is more complex interventions involving over 8000 operations were problem cases to medical countries worldwide. 1 2 The Children's The Children’s Hospital Trust Hospital Trust 2 The role of the number of operating theatres, to Children's Hospital complete the ongoing programme The Children’s Trust of ward upgrading, to build a new Hospital Trust X-ray Department and to construct Vision Statement a much needed Infectious Disease The Children's Hospital Trust is the Unit that will include a Children’s official fundraising arm of the Red Endocrinology and Diabetic Unit. To support the Red Cross Cross War Memorial Children’s All these projects were identified War Memorial Children’s Hospital, proudly assisting the and prioritised by the Hospital itself Hospital for more than a decade Hospital in order to and are included in the Hospital’s to upgrade and maintain its ensure that it maintains current strategic plan. buildings and equipment and to its status as the centre develop its nursing staff. The Trust of world class is a non-profit organisation that Rapid progress in health sciences excellence in Children’s relies entirely on the benevolence and medical technology has of donors to realise its aims and brought with it vastly improved health care, training objectives. It enjoys a record of diagnostic and treatment and research on the sound financial administration and modalities. Modern medical African continent. good governance and is able to equipment enhances efficiencies assure donors that every last cent and improves medical outcomes. donated is spent on improving the Again guided by the wishes of hospital. the Hospital, over the years the Trust has raised considerable Over the past 12 years, the Trust has funds for new medical raised public funds to address many equipment, but the most pressing needs, but much has yet important challenge still facing to be done. For example, there is the Hospital in this regard is to an urgent need to re-build, equip the new operating theatre modernise and increase the complex once it is completed. 4 The Children’s Hospital Trust Do Children need a dedicated hospital? 3 Governance of the Hospital’s building and equipment Children's Hospital The Board of Trustees needs. It was precisely for this reason that the Children’s Hospital Trust meets every second Trust was established in 1994 with month and the Trust’s the objective of raising public funds The Trust has a long record of Executive Committee to build a new Out-Patients Block outstanding administration, project (ExCo) meets every to replace the previous management and donor department housed in pre- stewardship. It is guided by its own two weeks together fabricated buildings. Governance Charter that provides with the CEO. all stakeholders with written This Public/Private partnership guidelines on the effective and The Government’s between the state and the efficient administration of the Trust contribution – A community is unique in South Africa itself. This comprehensive Public Private and since it is working so well, could document aligns the Trust with best serve as an effective partnership Partnership business practices recommended model to assist other public sector in the King 2 Report. The Charter hospitals in South Africa. also sets out the requirements for The role of the Trust is relevant for the meticulous financial control of two main reasons: firstly, given the all funds placed in its care age of the hospital there are many determines the objectives to inherent design and space achieve best possible donor deficiencies. Secondly, although stewardship, describes the working the Provincial Government funds relationship between the Trust and the running costs of the Hospital, its main partners and ensures that high demands on the overall fundraising initiatives are always Provincial Health and Capital aligned to the Trust’s mandate and Works budgets make it impossible to the Hospital’s own priorities. for Province to fund all the 5 Do Children need a dedicated hospital? The Chairman’s Report 4 A specialist Children’s hospital Similarly, teaching, training and The net result is that the physical consolidates a range of specialists research are enriched by the environment in a Children’s and sub-specialist services under aggregation of combined hospital is purpose-designed, less one roof. This is important because paediatric skills. It amounts to being clinical and more child- and all seriously ill Children require able to cross-pollinate, 24-hours a parent-friendly than can ever be multiple specialist and sub- day, under one roof, just on achieved in a general hospital. specialist input to make a diagnosis Children’s health. and deliver the most appropriate treatment. This team approach to In addition, the management of treating Children is regarded as so sick Children requires specialised important that it is actually now hospital design, not just at ward part of the written ethos of the level, but throughout the hospital.

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