Gaining a detailed understanding of our emergency department workforce and activity, informs our policy and advocacy initiatives, training and education strategies and workforce distribution planning.
PEMN aims to build a community that supports and advocates for optimal paediatric care in all emergency departments, through collaboration, education and implementation of best evidence.
Commissioned report examining why Australia’s mental health system is failing people presenting to the emergency department in mental health crisis, and the urgent reforms needed.
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This Policy relates to recommended standards of care for older persons in the ED. It has been developed in consultation with and endorsed by the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. Older persons have the right to high quality, timely, person-centred acute care in the setting that best meets their needs and wishes.
A committee has been formed comprising of a subset of New South Wales (NSW) Members of Parliament to inquire and report on the impact that ambulance ramping and access block is having on the operation of hospital emergency departments in NSW.
ACEM’s Breaking Point report reveals the unacceptable levels of violence and aggression faced every day by Australia’s emergency medicine workforce, and provides recommendations to Federal, State/Territory health authorities as well as hospitals for addressing this significant problem.
Respect the tikanga in your emergency department.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been rapid changes to processes in emergency departments (EDs) and the healthcare system. Last updated: 10 November 2021
This is a Commentary Paper on the final report of the Health and Disability System Review. It was presented to the Transition Unit, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).