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17 Aug 2021

Submission to the Primary Health Reform Steering Group on draft recomm

Submission to the Primary Health Reform Steering Group on their set of draft recommendations. The submission asks for more details on the recommendations, while advocating for protected funding for hospital-based services.

17 Aug 2021

ACEM submission on Victorian Government Consultation on Adaptation Act

The College comments on the urgent need to review existing policy and regulatory approaches in Victoria to improve community resilience to climate change, particularly in the context of the immediate and evolving threats posed by climate-related natural disasters.

07 Mar 2018

Policy on Heatwave Preparedness for EDs and EM Systems

This Policy relates to the preparation, readiness and responsiveness of emergency departments and emergency medicine systems to environmental heatwaves and extreme heat events.

06 Mar 2018

Policy on Violence in Emergency Departments

Staff and the public have the right to an environment, that is therapeutic and safe from violence. Violence and aggression in the ED and its vicinity are unacceptable. We support implementation of evidence-based harm prevention strategies.

13 Jan 2025

ACEM submission WA Law Reform Commission – Guardianship & Administrati

ACEM has provided comment on the WA Guardianship and Administration Act, in particular the operation and effectiveness of the Part 9E (Medical Research) Amendments (2020 and 2023) (the Amendments).

03 Feb 2025

ACEM Feedback on the Health Practitioner Regulation (NSW) 2016

The College was invited to provide feedback the NSW Health Practitioner Regulation 2016. The College advocates for the continuing nomination of an emergency medicine physician to the Medical Council NSW and its deliberating committees.

27 Mar 2020

Imaging

We recommend the use of imaging when required for exclusion of other pathology from the differential diagnosis; when required to identify the cause of sudden deterioration in a patient; portable chest radiography preferentially over patient movement to radiology where possible. Last updated: 10 November 2021

05 May 2020