ACEM is concerned that Tasmania’s new 60-minute transfer of care protocol will dangerously increase pressures on emergency departments, leading to more severe staff shortages, and compromised patient care.
Sobering new data released by ACEM reveals the scale of alcohol-related harm and violence in emergency departments – and its negative impacts on the patients, staff and carers within them.
ACEM has welcomed Labor Tasmania’s pledge to support the training of more regional doctors in emergency care skills.
Tasmania’s political parties need to quit politicking and listen to staff on the frontline of Tasmania’s health system, say emergency doctors.
This week in Canberra, emergency doctors urged the Australian Government to help regional Australians get the acute healthcare they need, by funding local healthcare workers to learn emergency care skills.
Emergency doctors across New Zealand say that the efficacy of extra security provided to emergency departments over summer was ‘a mixed bag’, dependent on the quality of training and support provided to security staff.
ACEM congratulates Dr David Emmerig, Dr Hector Thomson and Dr Nicole Maitin-Casalis for receiving the 2023.2 Buchanan Prize.
ACEM is pleased to announce that Dr Michael Morton and Dr Harry Sofatzis have been awarded the Joseph Epstein Prize.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) congratulates Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the New Zealand National, NZ First and ACT NZ Coalition on forming a new government, and looks forward to working together on measures to protect restore Aotearoa’s struggling EDs and staff – and get more patients the hea...
Updated 22 November 2023.