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29 Feb 2024

Government must support regional emergency care training

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.

01 Feb 2024

Training vital to ED security success

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.

24 Jan 2024

ACEM announces 2023.2 Buchanan Prize winners

ACEM congratulates Dr David Emmerig, Dr Hector Thomson and Dr Nicole Maitin-Casalis for receiving the 2023.2 Buchanan Prize.

17 Jan 2024

ACEM Congratulates 2023.2 Joseph Epstein Prize winners

ACEM is pleased to announce that Dr Michael Morton and Dr Harry Sofatzis have been awarded the Joseph Epstein Prize.

24 Nov 2023

ACEM congratulates NZ Coalition on forming new government

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...

20 Nov 2023

Updated: Statement on omission of pre-recorded addresses at 2023 ASM

Updated 22 November 2023.

14 Nov 2023

ACEM responds to Safer Care Victoria white paper

The overwhelming majority of paediatric patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in Victoria are treated by ED clinicians trained in general emergency care, and experience positive outcomes.

22 Oct 2023

ACEM statement on the Voice referendum outcome

ACEM is disappointed that the referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice did not pass.

18 Sep 2023

ACEM response to media comparison of EDs in Queensland

Following media reports in Queensland yesterday, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) asserts that comparing individual emergency departments (EDs) is unhelpful, can increase stresses placed on staff, and urges all patients requiring care to continue to present to their local ED.

13 Sep 2023

NZ Election: ACEM responds to Labour's pledge to boost doctor training

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) welcomes the New Zealand Labour Party’s election pledge to increase the number of medical training places and the international recruitment of Senior Medical Officers (SMOs). ACEM emphasises that further measures are needed to encourage many of these students to choose careers in emer...