How Humpty’s Wish List works

Each year the Humpty Dumpty Foundation receives hundreds of submissions from hospitals and health services across Australia requesting a wide range of essential and specialised equipment to help them manage newborn and paediatric medical emergencies.

Our Wish List process is simple:

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With your support Humpty can continue its critical work of providing much needed medical equipment to more than 440 regional and metropolitan hospitals and health services nationally.

We invite you to join our community of Good Eggs by donating an item on our Wish List. Your gift will make a significant and lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of countless babies and their families.

A hospital or health service centre identifies a high-priority medical need where equipment can dramatically change or save the lives of sick and injured children. They reach out to Humpty for a helping hand.

Submissions are rigorously assessed by Humpty’s Medical Subcommittee, with representatives from health, senior medical specialists and a former government official.

Approved items are added to Humpty’s Wish List and published online and at events in the hope a ‘Good Egg’ will be able to help and donate.

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Humpty orders all donated equipment for delivery directly to the hospitals.

A donor plaque is affixed to the equipment recognising the generous support of the ‘Good Egg’. Feedback and photos are shared with the donor.

To grant some of the very special wishes that follow, please contact Humpty on (02) 9419 2410 or email humpty@humpty.com.au

Message from Humpty’s Medical Subcommittee

Kerry Chikarovski

Over 30 years ago, a somewhat younger looking but equally enthusiastic Paul Francis had an idea to hold a charity dinner to raise money to paint the walls of the Children’s Ward at Royal North Shore public hospital. Paul couldn’t believe that the hospital was struggling to provide the highest of care to our community’s children, but the problem went beyond the need to paint.

There was a chronic shortage of critical, life-saving equipment that could determine whether a child, ranging from premature babies right through to adolescents and teens, lived or died.

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As a former politician I am well-accustomed to traversing a world where people have divided opinions and often fail to see eye-to-eye on a whole range of important issues. But I am yet to meet a single person who would challenge the right of every child to have the best chance at living.

Humpty has grown astronomically from its humble ambitions of holding a single charity dinner to raise money for one local hospital, to an organisation that has raised millions of dollars to purchase equipment for hundreds of hospitals across Australia. But throughout this time, it has stuck to core principles regarding the types of equipment its donations will fund.

Firstly, we strongly believe that it’s those working on the frontline in our hospitals that are best-placed to make an assessment of what equipment they truly need. This is why we ask the hospitals themselves to make funding requests for specific equipment directly to Humpty.

Secondly, the equipment must be essential and we have a rigorous process in place to decide what essential truly means. The Medical Subcommittee oversee, and often debate each and every request, deciding if a piece of equipment should be provided by Humpty. We are determined to ensure that governments continue to accept their obligations to be the major provider of equipment in our hospitals. We believe our role is to supplement, not substitute.

By supporting Humpty, you are gifting hundreds of children and families for many years to come the most important gift of all — the gift of hope and the best chance at a happy and healthy life no matter what challenges the world throws at them.