Hector and wife Ana surrounded by the ICU team

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It’s a Bright future for The Alfred 6 Hour Charity Mountain Bike Race
1 October 2018
The Alfred 6 Hour charity mountain bike race has been run and won for 2018.
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Team Alfred represented at the Great Bristol Half Marathon
27 September 2018
Half a world away from home, Jacob Davidge was living and working in Melbourne, experiencing an Australian summer when tragedy struck.
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Dr Helen Stergiou with Neil Mitchell in the 3AW booth
Community gets behind dads with $1.1 million appeal
3 September 2018
The Alfred is celebrating its most successful Father's Day Appeal ever after a massive $1,108,803 was donated to the hospital.
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Support The Alfred G1VE4DADS appeal
27 August 2018
The Alfred will kick off its annual Father’s Day Appeal on Friday 31 August and this year there’s a special twist – every dollar raised will be multiplied by four.
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Dry July is music to our ears
14 August 2018
Thanks to the generosity of our Dry July supporters, The Alfred has introduced a special music therapy program for our palliative care patients.
Thank you to The Merrin Foundation
2 July 2018
Since October 2005, the Merrin Foundation has been a generous and wonderful friend of The Alfred, already donating nearly $800,000 and recently committing to a further three years of funding towards the Merrin Fellow for Multiple Myeloma.
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Thank you to the Collier Charitable Fund
1 June 2018
Since 1988, the Collier Charitable Fund has donated over $1 million to The Alfred, primarily supporting the hospital through the donation of vital medical equipment.
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Alfred Health nursing scholarship lunch
10 May 2018
In May this year, The Alfred Foundation held a special lunch to support an innovative new scholarship for Alfred Health nurses.
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A new welcome for patients thanks to Dry July
11 April 2018
The Alfred continues to be overwhelmed by the generous community support the hospital received during Dry July. The support has helped to improve a number of well-used areas for patients and their loved ones across the hospital.
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Paying it forward
6 March 2018
When Alfred ICU and hyperbaric nurse Natalie McGregor was diagnosed with cancer, she found out how hard it was to be a patient – it left her emotionally and physically drained.
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