Support for the NHMRC Draft Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol. ACEM recommendations for a plain English summary and guidelines for healthy men and women aged over 18, children and young people, pregnant and breastfeeding women, a key information section a comprehensive awareness and promotion campaign.
See here for the 2017 Prevalence of Mental Health Access Block report, the 2018 The Long Wait: An Analysis of Mental Health Presentations to Australian Emergency Departments and the 2019 Mental Health Service Use: A New Zealand Context.
Noting the existing workforce shortfalls and the inability of the health system to adequately meet the needs of Tasmanians, we are particularly concerned that TAS will not be able to meet increasing healthcare needs as the population simultaneously grows and ages.
This is a policy of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College). This document relates to the provision of emergency medical advice over the telephone to patients, carers and non-health professionals who telephone a hospital emergency department.
ACEM is supportive of the Productivity Commission’s recognition of emergency departments as an integral part of Australia’s mental health system. Unless more specific attention and action is paid to this issue, EDs and the increasing numbers of mental health patients who present to EDs will not get the resourcing and support needed.
Time-based targets should be used, conditional on safeguards built into the performance measurement regimen at local and national level. This should be a set of tiered targets (admitted, discharged, short stay) as opposed to single point and isolated targets. We need a whole-of-hospital and whole-of-system approach.
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Released 6 September 2011
ACEM’s When Care Meets Conflict report reveals the prevalence of ongoing violence in emergency departments (EDs) across Aotearoa New Zealand and provides recommendations at government and hospital level to address this significant problem.
Released 23 December 2011
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