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07 Mar 2018

Implementation of the Australian Triage Scale in Emergency Departments

This guideline details the clinical descriptors for each of the five ATS categories, and describes the overarching principles and minimum standards for the implementation of the ATS.

13 Apr 2021

2020 New FACEMs Early Career Survey

Understanding how and where our emergency medicine workforce is working and the issues they face is important to ACEM and workforce planning. This report presents the findings from the 2020 new Fellows Early Career Survey.

24 Aug 2018

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Non-Indigenous Presentations

The report provides a detailed analysis of the profile and utilsation of EDs by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in comparison with Non-Indigenous people.

05 Nov 2020

John Gilroy Potts Award

Closed.

28 May 2021

Choosing Wisely: Pharmacy Recommendations August 2020

ACEM confirmed support for the Choosing Wisely Pharmacy Recommendations with comments around in-pharmacy opportunistic diagnostic testing, the process around dispensing of regular opioids and additional guidance and training for pharmacists or other healthcare professionals regarding the use of complementary and alternative medicines.

24 May 2022

Interim Statement on Telehealth in Emergency Medicine

This document sets out an interim principles-based ACEM position, which will underpin an ongoing and more detailed College exploration of telehealth service provision, governance, and training. ACEM supports innovation but notes the need for a stronger evidence-base in the context of emergency care.

20 May 2021

National Clinical Trials Governance Framework

Confirming support for patient care that includes research as a fundamental component of ED activity and for patient rights regardless of the size of the hospital. The imposition of blanket accreditation could be detrimental to clinical trial-based research in emergency departments.

29 Jun 2021

Draft Maori Health Strategy

ACEM suggestions for the Ministry of Health draft Māori Health Action Plan in NZ to consider and embed the perspective of emergency and acute care into the Strategy. To collaborate with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders and support the implementation of the Ministry’s Māori Health Action Plan and ACEM’s Manaaki Mana Strategy

07 Mar 2018

Policy on Non-medical Practitioners Working in Emergency Departments

There is variation in the training, experience, scope of practice, and models of care under which non-medical practitioners practice. This policy provides overarching principles on the supervisory, collaborative, professional and governance requirements of all non-medical practitioners working in an ED team.

31 May 2018

Endorsement of research projects by the ACEM Clinical Trials Network

The online form below will prompt you to provide the information mandated by the Policy. Once the form has been submitted it will be processed in a timely manner and the primary liaison will be notified of the outcome.