We provide a media service from 6am to 9pm each day. Journalists are welcome to contact our media on-call service through the RMH Switchboard on (03) 9342 7000.
The Communications team can help media with:
- Patient condition updates
- Interviews with patients and staff
- Escorting film crews and photographers
- Providing experts for medical opinion
- Permissions for filming on hospital grounds
Brand and logo requests
How to request permission and seek advice on using the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) brand.
Patient condition updates and interview requests
How to enquire about patient condition updates for media purposes or request an interview with a patient or their family.
Latest news & events
The RMH Structural Heart Team have performed Victoria’s first tricuspid valve replacement using a newly TGA-approved valve, delivered via transcatheter approach (via leg vein).
Two years after a high-speed car crash changed her life forever, a medical student who spent her 20th birthday in the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has reunited with the team that cared for her.
With cases of the flu on the rise, the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is encouraging Victorians to take simple but important steps to protect themselves and others over the coming weeks.
Congratulations to two of the RMH’s incredible leaders, Prof Kate Drummond and Dr Emma O’Brien, who were inducted into the 2026 Victorian Honour Roll of Women this week.
