The Teddy Bear Hospital is a unique educational program for children and healthcare students. Established in 2009, it is run by volunteer medicine, nursing and allied health students at the University of Melbourne.
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At the Royal Children's Hospital
Growing out of a medical student-led volunteer initiative, the Teddy Bear Hospital is now set to become a regular feature at the Royal Children's Hospital.
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Good Friday Appeal
Each year the Good Friday Appeal brings together people from all parts of the community to raise much needed funds for equipment, research and education to support the work of The Royal Children's Hospital.
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Chadstone
The Teddy Bear Hospital runs "The Teddy Winter Check-Up" event at Chadstone - The Fashion Capital.
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Roadshow Events
Information about regional Victoria events within local communities.
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The Good Friday Appeal Teddy Bear Hospital raised funds for The Royal Children's Hospital.
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More than 1200 medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, audiology, optometry, biomedical, science, speech pathology and social work students raised $26,429 by running a Teddy Bear Hospital for the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Good Friday Appeal.
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The Good Friday Appeal Teddy Bear Hospital was a huge success treating over 3600 sick, sniffily teddies and raising more than $23,000 for The Royal Children's Hospital.
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The Teddy Bear Hospital Winter Check-Up at Chadstone the Fashion Capital was a huge weekend long success treating over 1200 sick sniffily teddies and raising more than $10,000 for The Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
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Our Teddy team had a wonderful time at the "Great Amazing Race" creating a variety fun and challenging surgery, anatomy and face painting activities for over 300 teams to complete. Together the event raised over $21,000 for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.
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The Teddy Bear Hospital is a unique educational program established and actively run by volunteer medical, nursing, physiotherapy, optometry and dentistry students of the University of Melbourne.

Get in touch
For enquiries about the Teddy Bear Hospital, please contact the Department of Paediatrics
- Email: paeds-tbh@unimelb.edu.au or paeds-general-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
- Phone: +61 3 9345 7605