Membership

Bears Of Hope offers support and guidance for parents who have experienced the loss of their baby during pregnancy, birth or infancy. Through the donation of a bear of hope, parents are provided with the comfort of knowing they are not alone from the very beginning, and offered significant ongoing support to heal their broken hearts.
This includes loss through miscarriage, genetic interruption, multiple loss, stillbirth, neo-natal & infant death.

National Twin Loss Support (NTLS), formerly Murraylands Lutheran Stillborn Infant Support Service, and Murraylands Twin Loss, focuses attention on multiple pregnancy loss issues. NTLS is premised on building links with hospitals, church groups, counsellors, medical professionals, other bereavement groups and some Government agencies to educate on the needs of families who lose twin/triplet/quadruplet. Currently the primary activity for NTLS is to ensure obstetric units in Australian hospitals have ‘multiple pregnancy loss awareness kits’ readily available as a resource for medical professionals.

Teddy Love Club Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support is an Australia wide support program for bereaved parents who suffer the loss of their baby or babies to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination of pregnancy for foetal abnormality and neonatal death.

TLC donates traditional Teddy Bears to bereaved parents, in the hope the bear may help to ease the pain of leaving the hospital with such aching empty arms. We hope to provide parents with the comfort of knowing they are not alone right from the beginning, and offer significant ongoing support & understanding to bereaved parents, their families and their friends.

The TLC program is the original bear giving program in Australia established 26th October 2002 in Adelaide. TLC operates in every state of Australia with the program represented in almost every maternity hospital across the country.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is the professional organisation that focuses on the safety and quality of general practice. The College's mission is to improve health and wellbeing for all Australians by supporting general practitioners, registrars and medical students by assessing doctors skills and knowledge, supplying ongoing professional development activities, developing resources and guidelines, helping general practitioners with issues that affect their practice and development standards that general practices use as part of the accreditation processes.

Over 24,000 general practitioners participate in their Quality Assurance and Continuing Professional Development program (QACPD), making it the largest medical CPD program in Australia. The college has over 20,000 members, and over 7,000 members of its National Rural Faculty. The college is the largest general practice representative body in Australia and the largest representative body for rural general practice.