Services

The Norm Bourke box was created to assist people accessing life saving peritoneal dialysis treatment at home. The Norm Bourke Box project provides essential  supplies to people accessing training through Renal Outreach centers. Currently we provide to Tamworth, Newcastle, Dubbo, Orange, Wollongong, Canberra, Blacktown, Royal Prince Alfreds and Taree. We also provide specific supplies for both children hospitals at Randwick and Westmead.

These supplies are not provided by NSW Health and at times are costly for very sick patients and their families, so we like to help out at this time of difficulty for many starting. The boxes have been designed by patients and nursing staff together to ensure the contents are right for people starting peritoneal dialysis. We are working with other health services who provide training for peritoneal dialysis to provide the boxes to other hospitals in NSW. Please do not hesitate to send us an email if you are interested in them coming to a hospital near you.

Norm Bourke was an inspiration to those in the Renal community and died in 2018. We aim to do an amazing job in his memory. Norm was on peritoneal dialysis initially when he was first diagnosed with kidney failure. 

In conjunction with the amazing staff at Tamworth Renal services we opened a designated self contained 1 Bedroom onsite accommodation for patients and their families who need to be in Tamworth to stay for surgeries or home dialysis training. All patients that stay here are bulk billed through IPTAAS and have no out of pocket charges.