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30 Jan 2019

Statement on mental health care

While there is much that can be done to improve the experiences of people who present to emergency departments (ED) with mental health crises, it is also essential that system responses beyond the ED are improved.

21 Aug 2019

ACEM response to BHI report on mental health care in NSW

The release of the NSW Bureau of Health Information’s (BHI) report on people’s use and experiences of mental health care in NSW serves to confirm many of the issues and concerns the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine has been raising.

31 Oct 2019

New triage system to improve emergency care at MHPH

A new triage and patient flow system has been launched in the Emergency Department (ED) at Mount Hagen Provincial Hospital (MHPH).

25 Apr 2019

ACEM statement on Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee

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.

28 May 2019

Statement on Auditor-General’s report into Tasmania’s EDs

The peak body for emergency medicine in Australia welcomes the findings in the Auditor-General’s report into the state’s four major hospitals’ emergency departments, saying executive engagement with clinical leaders is critical to improving patient outcomes.

20 Aug 2022

ACEM statement on ED patients affected by methamphetamines in SA

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) would like to respond to a position and statements attributed to Dr Michael Edmonds and the College published in the Adelaide Advertiser on the 20th of August and syndicated to other publications.

08 Jul 2022