The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) congratulates Roger Cook and the Labor Party on forming government following the West Australian (WA) election.
FACEM Rosanne Skalicky recently received the IFEM Humanitarian Award for her many years of work building emergency medicine capacity overseas in Tanzania and Myanmar. We spoke to her about the work that led to this honour and what it means to her.
ACEM is calling for urgent and cooperative action from all governments to support healthcare workers to cross state and national borders and to assist overseas healthcare workers to reach Australia, including the creation of extra positions in quarantine in addition to those already available for returning Australians.
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.
Statement attributable to ACEM WA Faculty Chair Dr Peter Allely:
Patients with acute mental and behavioural conditions disproportionately experience unacceptably long waits in the ED for inpatient mental health care following admission to hospital. This report presents the findings from ACEM's research on mental health presentations to Australian and NZ EDs accredited by ACEM.
ACEM responded to a Victorian inquiry and recommended the development of effective, evidence-based strategies to better prevent, monitor, mitigate and enhance the resilience of the community to the acute and chronic health impacts of air pollution, including the evolving threats posed by climate change.
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.
FACEM Dr Louis Christie will discuss the important issue of end of life care when he takes to the stage at April’s geriatric emergency medicine conference, GEM SEM 2019.
Emergency physicians are being urged to take part in a survey looking at current practices in snake and spider envenoming management in Australian emergency departments.