This report seeks to provide clarity and understanding of the complex factors and interconnected issues that are straining the healthcare system and causing harm to patients and the healthcare workers who treat them.
ACEM will publish these detailed State of Emergency reports at regular intervals, in order to inform and guide the collaborative work between the College, the government, other Colleges and health services, as well as patients and all stakeholders, on the creation of an equitable health future for everyone.
State of Emergency: Regional, Rural and Remote 2024 Report
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State of Emergency 2024: Regional, Rural and Remote (SOE24) aimed to find out what ways emergency healthcare differs in regional, rural and remote (RRR) settings compared to metropolitan areas.
Like SOE22, SOE24 is concrete data, gathered from across each of Australia’s states and territories during 2021-22, and carefully collated and analysed, to provide a comparison of emergency care and workforce between cities and RRR areas.
SOE24 discovered that the demands for emergency care per population in RRR areas is 27 per cent higher than in the cities. But the available emergency medicine specialist workforce is 22 per cent lower.
State of Emergency: Regional, Rural and Remote 2024 Report is currently only available to ACEM members and trainees through the MyACEM portal.
State of Emergency 2022 Report
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State of Emergency 2022 (SOE22) is ACEM’s inaugural report that presents the numbers behind the healthcare crisis.
It is concrete data, gathered from across each of Australia’s states and territories during 2020 – 2021, and carefully collated and analysed. It is the inarguable proof of what ACEM has been saying – with increasing urgency – for a very long time; the health system in Australia has never been in a worse state.
There have never been more people requiring acute healthcare, people have never had such complex health needs and the health system has never been so strained. It is bad everywhere, but it is worse in rural, regional and remote areas.