Medical conditions and their wish eligibility
Respiratory
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Cystic Fibrosis – 3 to 9 years with severe complications, e.g., respiratory, or gastrointestinal or children aged 10+ years with associated complications
- Progressive Bronchiectasis
- Neuromuscular condition requiring home ventilation (depending on severity and impact on life)
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Tracheostomy (reviewed case-by-case)
- Asthma with other complex diagnoses (reviewed case-by-case)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Asthma (no other complex diagnoses)
- Chronic Respiratory Diseases that are not life-limiting or low morbidity
Gastrointestinal
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Liver, Bowel or Pancreas Transplant (post-transplant, complications, rejections)
- Short Bowel Syndrome (age dependent) – on Home Parenteral Nutrition (PN)
- End Stage Liver failure
- Total Home Parenteral Nutrition (depending on the cause)
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Biliary Atresia (with associated liver transplant)
- Crohn’s Disease (with stoma or surgery planned)
- Ulcerative Colitis (with stoma or surgery planned)
- Anorectal Malformation (requiring surgery)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Crohn’s Disease (on single medical therapy)
- Ulcerative Colitis (on single drug therapy)
Metabolic/Endocrine
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Progressive/Inherited Metabolic Disease
- Mucopolysaccharidosis Diseases (Hurler Syndrome, Hunter Syndrome, Sanfillipo’s syndrome, Morquio and Scheie) – depending on severity and impact on life
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Type 1 Diabetes (with other physical complications)
- Hypopituitarism
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Uncomplicated metabolic disease with a good outcome or prognosis
- Metabolic Diseases that are not life limiting or considered low morbidity
- Short Stature
- Type 1 Diabetes (without complications)
Cardiovascular
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Progressive Cardiomyopathy (pending or post-transplant)
- Cyanotic Heart Disease (inoperable or operable with complications)
- Hypoplastic Heart (left or right)
- Complex Congenital Heart Disease (isolated or part of syndrome)
- Tetralogy of Fallot (depending on severity and complications)
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Long QT Syndrome (on treatment or with complications, dysrhythmia, or arrhythmia disorders)
- Di George Syndrome (with complications)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Uncomplicated Ventricular Septal Defect
- Chronic Diseases that are not life limiting or considered low morbidity
Renal
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- End Stage renal Failure (requiring transplant or on long term dialysis)
- Kidney Transplant (post transplant, complications, rejections)
Neurology
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Moyamoya (with surgery or surgery planned)
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Friedrich’s Ataxia (with complications)
- Primary Neurodegenerative Disorders (i.e. Battens Disease)
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 & 2 (SMA)
- Leigh’s Disease (depending on severity and impact on life)
- Lennox Gastaut Syndrome (depending on severity and impact on life)
- Dravet’s Syndrome (depending on severity and impact on life)
- Rett Syndrome (depending on severity and impact on life)
- Malignant Brain Tumours
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3 (SMA)
- Neurofibromatosis – with complications related to tumours
- Cerebral Palsy (with severe impact on life, requires tube feeding, with associated conditions that would qualify)
- Complex Epilepsy with multi-drug therapy
- Spina Bifida (post-surgical repair without complications)
- Complex Epilepsy (demanding multi-drug therapy)
- Angelman’s Syndrome (requiring regular transfusions, with complications)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Spina Bifida (without complications or life limiting/morbidity)
- Epilepsy (well controlled, on medication)
Haematology & Immune System Disorders
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Sickle Cell Anaemia (with stroke or other significant complications)
- Thalassaemia Major (transfusion dependent)
- Haemophilia (requiring regular transfusions, with complications)
- Aplastic Anaemia
- Complex Vasculitis (with serious complications or impact on life, including Strokes and Sequelae)
- Bone Marrow Failure or Chemotherapy Treatment
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Evan’s Syndrome (with significant complications or impact on life)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Sickle Cell Anaemia (no stroke or no significant complications)
Oncology
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (standard and relapsed treatment)
- Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (standard and relapsed treatment)
- Neuroblastoma (all stages)
- Hepatoblastoma
- Brain Tumours
- Wilms Tumour (stage 1-2)
- Osteosarcoma
- Ewings Sarcoma
- Hodgkins Disease
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Relapsed Malignancy
- Spinal Tumours
- Retinoblastoma
Musculoskeletal
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Juvenile Arthritis (with multi-drug therapy)
- Whole Limb Amputation (arm/leg)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Juvenile Arthritis (without complications, monotherapy)
- Isolated Scoliosis
Neurodisability/Neurodiversity
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case):
- Children with a Neurodisability/Neurodiversity who have a poor prognosis or outcome may be considered for a wish. Please refer to Neurology Section of our medical criteria
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Primary Mental Health Disorders
Other Conditions
✅ Eligible for a wish:
- Epidermolysis Bullosa (dependent on type)
- Acquired Brain Injury (with subsequent complications or impact on life)
⚠️ May be eligible (case-by-case)
- Down Syndrome, with severe cardiac disease or complex heart disease/malignancy/gastrointestinal complications
- Stroke (dependent on causation)
❌ Not eligible for a wish
- Ehlers Danlos
- Down Syndrome (no cardiac disease)