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19 May 2022

ACEM welcomes $11.1b for health in NZ budget, urges workforce fixes

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) strongly welcomes the focus on health in the 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) budget and believes that elements of the $11.1 billion investment could help reduce pressure on struggling hospital systems, and contribute towards the provision of a better, fairer health system ...

18 May 2022

Queensland’s emergency physicians: we are fed up, broken and exposed

Right now, emergency physicians in Queensland agree that the hospital system is in the worst state we have ever seen it. Things are deteriorating, with no end or reprieve in sight.

17 May 2022

ACEM welcomes pledge to strengthen Medicare

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) welcomes the Australian Labor Party’s election commitment of $750 million to deliver better access to healthcare for patients, made a week out from Saturday’s poll.

06 May 2022

ACEM response to 2022–2023 Victorian state budget

Following the release of the Victorian state budget, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) is calling for vision, collaboration and big-picture thinking to ensure the creation of a holistic strategy that can reform, and heal, Victoria’s broken health system.

06 May 2022

NT's $2b for health welcome, but more needed for rural areas and staff

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM, the College) welcomes the Northern Territory Government’s $2 billion heath investment, announced in the 2022 - 2023 state budget, but urges greater investment and focus on workforce and in rural, regional and remote areas, to ensure health equity and sustainability across the territor...

04 May 2022

Coalition’s investment in rural health welcomed

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) welcomes the Liberal-National coalition’s pre-electoral pledge of $146 million towards increasing the number of doctors and allied health workers in rural, regional and remote areas, should they be re-elected in the 2022 federal election.

02 May 2022

WA government must collaborate with clinicians on $252m package

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM, the College) welcomes the McGowan Government’s $252 million emergency care improvement package, and their focus on health for the 2022/2023 Western Australian (WA) state budget.

26 Apr 2022

ACEM welcomes Labor's healthcare workforce solutions

ACEM welcomes Labor’s pre-electoral commitments of short and long-term measures aimed at addressing Australia’s healthcare workforce crisis, and believes that, properly implemented, they could have positive impacts on the workforce emergency being experienced across Australia’s public health systems.

20 Apr 2022

ACEM welcomes commitment to improve the NDIS

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) welcomes the announcement by the Australian Labor Party to review and improve the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

20 Apr 2022

ACEM disappointed at Liberal’s health ‘recap’, urges real leadership

The Liberal Party of Australia’s healthcare system plan for a re-elected Morrison Government lacks vision and the considerable investment urgently needed to relieve pressures on Australia’s overcrowded emergency departments (EDs), says the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College).