Eighty-five per cent of babies born twelve weeks premature now survive thanks to the lifesaving work of Perinatal Research Centre staff and the hospital’s Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit.

In June 2019, then 19-year old Tony was leading a full life. The Sunshine Coast apprentice mechanic had spent the day training for his forklift license in Brisbane and had been to indoor cricket that night, before heading to bed with an unrepentant but manageable headache.

P.A.R.T.Y. is the acronym for the Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth, a statewide program runout of RBWH for the past decade thanks to the financial generosity and partnership of AAMI (Suncorp) and The Department of Transport and Main Roads.

Patients and visitors to RBWH have long been greeted by the warm, friendly faces of the RBWH volunteer army.