High Priority Items (Currently Taking)

These are very valuable! If you have any of these items to offer, we will squeeze them in!

• Any medical device or machines (e.g. ECG, fluid pumps, pulse oximeters, syringe drivers, anaesthetic machine, ventilators, ultrasound, X-ray, oxygen concentrators)

• General practice equipment: Stethoscopes, Sphygmomanometers, Blood Pressure Monitors, Stethoscopes, Otoscopes, Ophthalmoscopes, Peak Flow Meter

• Dialysis machines - haem and peritoneal

• Soffban Cotton Underbandage

• Gelfilm, Gelfoam

• Needles, syringes and cannulas (18G to 24G)

• Patient warming devices

• Sutures and suture kits (including absorbable 2/0 and 3/0)

• Sterilisers (chemical, UV, steam)

• Lamps and lights

• Neonatal equipment: Incubators, Paediatric Scales, Doppler machine, fetal monitor, Ultraviolet machine

• Wheelchair, crutches, stretchers

• Hartmann’s IV fluid, normal saline

• Self-adherent Bandage Wrap

• Alaris pump and giving sets

• Trauma surgical equipment (airway devices, video laryngoscopes, haemostatic devices, ICC devices, compression devices, Gauze, wound dressings (e.g. silver), alcohol swabs)

• Tendon hammers

• Glucometers and glucose test strips

• Peritoneal Dialysis Kits

• General examination, point of care, and vital signs

• Blueys/underpads

• Elastic Tape (e.g. Leukoplast)

Medium Priority Items (Not Currently Taking)

These are our staples. We will generally accept them if we have enough space.

• Urinary catheters, drainage bags

• Airway equipment (LMA’s, ETT, Guedels, NPA), oxygen tubing

• Tweezers

• First aid kits

• Stoma supplies

• Hand sanitiser

• Antiseptic ointments, creams, sprays

• Glass slides and pipettes

• Iodine skin prep solution

• Chlorhexidine Irrigation Solution (all %)

Low Priority Items (Not Currently Taking)

Unfortunately, there is limited demand for these items and we rarely have enough space for them.

• PPE (masks, gloves, gowns)

• Drapes, and equipment covers

• Suctions, drains, nasogastric tubes, feeding tubes

• Endoscopic equipment

• Angiographic equipment

Prohibited Items

We cannot take these items.

• Drugs/medication

• Open sharps

• RAT tests

• Blood Gas Syringes

• All types of Lidocaine liquid and gel (all %)

• Buffered Formalin

• Yellow infectious waste bags

• Expired diagnostic samplers (e.g. pathology tubes, covid swabs, faecal occult blood kits)

• Blood stained items

• Interpharma saline ampoules 10mL and 30mL (recent TGA safety alert)

This list was last updated 29 Apr 2024