Melbourne Cup Luncheon

Each year proceeds from the Melbourne Cup luncheon go towards helping Wishlist fund essential equipment for Sunshine Coast public hospitals.

The 2011 Exclusive 300 Club Melbourne Cup Charity Luncheon was held on 1st November in the '300 Club Marquee' at Sunshine Coast Turf Club, Corbould Park Caloundra.

The luncheon is by invitation only and commences from 10.30am. Guests enjoy an all-inclusive two-course plated meal hors d’ oeuvres, beer, wine and champagne.

Dress code: Come in your finest formal race wear. 

 The Cause

Every year proceeds from the Melbourne Cup luncheon go towards helping Wishlist fund essential equipment for Sunshine Coast public hospitals.

The 2010 Melbourne Cup event raised $33,000 to buy vital Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) equipment for the surgical services unit at Nambour General Hospital.

The 2011 luncheon will again raise funds to purchase ENT surgical equipment for local public health services. This extra surgery equipment will enable our visiting surgeons to almost double the amount of operations that are currently being performed.

Half of all ENT services involve the treatment of children, and with the purchase of the new equipment and a newly recruited ENT surgeon, Dr Adam Blond, services to both outpatients and emergency will be available at the Nambour Hospital.  

Director of Surgery, Dr Ratna Aseervatham, said he is very excited about the prospect of new equipment. “It will be wonderful for the community because we’ll be able to treat public patients here on the Coast rather than sending them to Brisbane, and the service will only get better as we get a larger workforce and attract more ENT specialists who can use the equipment,” he said. 

“A large percent of those who need ENT treatment are paediatric patients, and then there are those with life-threatening issues - patients from intensive care and emergency. Having new ENT equipment will give us the ability to diagnose these patients and treat them here which is great as we know it’s very inconvenient to have to travel to Brisbane, particularly for families.

“And as we live here too, it’s great to know our own families can be treated locally if or when they need it.”