It is October, and it is hard to believe that we are already in the last quarter of 2022.
I have just returned from the Spring Symposium in Ōtautahi Christchurch, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A sense of urgency to achieve more goals in the advocacy space faces me as 2022 enters its final months, with a simultaneous hunger to find a source of replenishment before the busy Christmas and New Year’s Eve period hits emergency departments. How to find self-care, and quickly?
It is hard for many of us who work in chronically under-resourced and overcrowded emergency departments to not get cynical. After all, it is an honestly earned cynicism. But I find it harder to be cynical in spring. Especially when the waratahs are out.
While working in the ACEM President’s office for the last time, my phone rang and a FACEM friend asked me, how do you feel about reaching the end of your presidency?
My first year as ACEM President has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I am so excited about all that the College has accomplished during this time.
The rapid transfer process brought in is leaving vulnerable community members at risk.
The peak body for emergency medicine in Australia says while it welcomes Bill Shorten’s promise an ALP government would invest $500 million emergency departments, the key is to make sure the money is spent where it is needed most.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM, the College) welcomes the McGowan Government’s $252 million emergency care improvement package, and their focus on health for the 2022/2023 Western Australian (WA) state budget.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has welcomed the release of an independent evaluation showing a reduction in alcohol fuelled harm following reforms introduced by the Northern Territory Government.