Urgent Consumable Requests From Our Partners
- Bed Pad Washable (Connie)
- Bluey Absorbent Disposable Protector Pads
- Flamazine (Silver Sulfadiazine) 1.0% Cream
- Hartmanns IV Solution
- Hypodermic needles, 21G to 23G, Less Than or Equal to One Inch
- Slip Syringes
- Paper, Surgical and Wound Dressing Tapes
- Scalpel Blades
- Skin Glue i.e. Dermabond
- Sutures & Suture Kits
Not Taking
- 1mL Luer Lock Syringes
- 1mL Syringes with Needles
- Angiographic Equipment
- Drapes and Equipment Covers
- Empty First-Aid Bags
- Endoscopic Equipment
- PPE (Masks, Gowns, Face Shields)
- Stoma Bags
We will never take these prohibited items.
- Blood Gas Syringes
- Blood/Iodine-Stained Items
- Buffered Formalin
- Drugs/Medication
- Expired Diagnostic Samplers (e.g. Pathology Tubes, Covid Swabs, Faecal Occult Blood Kits)
- Open Sharps
This list was last updated 27th May 2025
FAQ
What other consumable items do you take?
The list is endless! Whether we can accept certain items depends on our current storage capacity and how the items can be delivered to us, so please submit the expression of interest form or ask us at [email protected].
Examples of consumables we accept include:
Examples of consumables we accept include:
- Alcohol Swabs
- Antiseptic ointments, creams, sprays
- Bandages
- Bluey Absorbent Disposable Protector Pads
- Bluey Absorbent Disposable Protector Pads
- Cannuals (18G to 24G)
- Chest Drain Equipment
- Chlorhexidine Irrigation Solution (all %)
- Cricothyroidotomy Equipment
- Drainage Bags
- Drains
- Endotracheal tubes
- External Antiseptics
- Feeding Tubes
- Flamazine (Silver Sulfadiazine) 1.0% Cream
- Gauze
- Gelfilm, Gelfoam
- Giving sets
- Glass slides and pipettes
- Gloves
- Glucose test strips
- Guedels
- Hand sanitiser
- Hartmanns IV Solution
- In-date RAT tests
- Iodine skin prep solution
- Laryngoscopes and handles
- LMA's
- Nasogastric Tubes
- Needles (18G to 24G)
- Normal Saline
- Oxygen Tubing
- Scalpel Blades
- Self Adherant Bandage Wrap
- Skin Glue
- Soft Cotton Under Bandage
- Specimen Pots (urine, faecal)
- Stoma Supplies Other Than Bags (e.g. foam, wipes, sprays)
- Suctions
- Sutures & Suture Kits
- Syringes
- Tapes
- Tegaderm
- Urinary Catheters
- Videoscope Blades - C-Mac and Normal
- Wound Dressing Tape
- Wound Dressings
What other equipment do you take?
The list is endless! Whether we can accept certain items depends on our current storage capacity and how the items can be delivered to us, so please submit the expression of interest form or ask us at [email protected].
Examples of equipment we accept include:
Examples of equipment we accept include:
- Alaris pumps
- Anaesthetic Machines
- Automatic Hematology Annalyser
- Blood Pressure Monitors
- Centrifuges
- Compression Devices
- Crutches
- Doppler Machines
- ECG
- Fetal Monitors
- First aid kits
- Fluid Pumps
- Forceps
- General examination, point of care, and vital signs
- Glucometers
- Haemostatic Devices
- Incubators
- Kidney Dishes
- Lamps and lights
- Large Medical Instrument Trolley
- Microscopes
- Neonatal equipment: Incubators, Paediatric Scales, Doppler machine, fetal monitor, Ultraviolet machine
- Ophthalmoscopes
- Otoscopes
- Oxygen Concentrators
- Paediactric Scales
- Patient warming devices
- Peak Flow Meters
- Pulse Oximeter Machine
- Scissors
- Small Scissors
- Sphygmomanometers
- Stainless Steel Animal Scale
- Sterilisers (Chemical, UV, Steam)
- Stethoscopes
- Stretchers
- Surgical Instruments
- Surgical Scissors
- Syringe Drivers
- Tendon hammers
- Trauma/Emergency Equipment (Compression devices, Chest Drain Equipment)
- Tweezers
- Ultrasound Machines
- Ultraviolet Machines
- Ventilators
- Videolaryngoscopes
- Wheelchairs
- X-ray Machines
Do you accept expired items?
Usually, yes! You can check our priority list too.
Do you accept unsterile or used items?
Maybe! We treat these items on a case-by-case basis. You can ask us at [email protected], but often we’ll need extra details to be able to know. So, it’s worth submitting the expression of interest form and we can take it from there!
I’m not in Victoria, Australia - can I still donate to you?
Yes! However, we do not have drop-off points anywhere other than our warehouse in Laverton North, Victoria, Australia. So, it would be more environmentally friendly and cost-effective to find a similar organisation closer to you. These organisations seem to have similar goals to us, although we have no connections to them and have not vetted them:
National
- Animal Rescue Cooperative (National)
- Rotary Donations In Kind (National)
- RSPCA (National)
- MedEarth (NSW)
- Save Our Supplies (QLD)
- Someone Who Cares (QLD)
International
- MEDIGIVE (UK)
- InterCare (UK)
- Med Surplus Alliance (USA)
- MedShare (USA)
- ProjectC.u.r.e. (USA)
When can I drop by?
Please organise a time with us by submitting the expression of interest form. Please don’t drop by unannounced because we may be closed or unable to take your donation - we love your enthusiasm and wouldn’t want to see you disappointed if we can’t take your items!
How can I get the items to you?
The options are:
- Drop them off: You drop them to our warehouse in Laverton North, Victoria, Australia. Please organise a time with us by submitting the expression of interest form. Please don’t drop by unannounced because we may be closed or unable to take your donation - we love your enthusiasm and wouldn’t want to see you disappointed if we can’t take your items!
- Post them to us: But please organise a time with us first by submitting the expression of interest form. Our warehouse is not staffed during normal business hours, so one of our volunteers would need to be available to open up when the courier arrives. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover the transportation costs as we are 100% funded by donations.
- We pick them up from you: This won’t always be possible. We are 100% volunteer-run and funded by donations, so we can’t afford trucks or removalists and we’re all typically busy on weekdays with our day jobs. But, if the items are small enough, one of us may be able to drop by for a pickup!
I have a general enquiry that isn’t answered here.
Please email us at [email protected]!