ACEM - Standards and Advocacy Library

ACEM has provided a submission on the WA mental health, and alcohol and other drugs strategy 2025-2030. ACEM has 8 recommendations for the strategy, as well as some additions comments, including areas such as addiction medicine physician shortages, and advocating for good quality emergency medicine research.

NZ Cultural safety Public Health & Prevention Vulnerable Patients Submissions

V1.0 18 Dec 2024

SUB677
ACEM Submission on the Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) offers the following submission to the Justice Committee regarding the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill.

All Access to Care Clinician Wellbeing Rostering and Staffing Rural Regional & Remote Workforce Reports

V1.0 01 Nov 2024

Workforce Report
FACEM and Trainee Demographic and Workforce 2023

The report presents the demographic and workplace profiles of FACEMs and FACEM trainees as of 31 December 2023. The annual profiling of EM workforce will inform planning and advocacy initiatives relating to the EM workforce and ACEM training activities.

Public Health & Prevention Safety & Quality Vulnerable Patients Submissions

V1.0 22 Oct 2024

SUB673
Response to Inquiry into health impactions of alcohol & other drug use

ACEM submission to The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport Inquiry into the health impacts of alcohol and other drugs. The submission has been informed by the expertise and experience of FACEMs, and provides insights into AOD presentations in Australian EDs, and makes a series of recommendations.

All Standards

V1.0 01 Oct 2024

TA930
Exceptional Circumstances and Special Consideration: Examinations

This policy outlines the criteria and processes by which trainees subject to ACEM regulations and/or policies as pertain to College examinations may apply for variation to the requirements on the grounds of exceptional circumstances that may justify special consideration.

Standards Access to Care Clinician Wellbeing EM Classification Leadership Resource Stewardship Roles & Responsibilities in the ED Workforce

V1.0 29 Sep 2024

Emergency Medicine – Building Our Future Summit Report

In August 2023, the year of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), the College convened the Emergency Medicine – Building Our Future Summit to start conversations about the role and scope of emergency medicine – now, and into the future.

WA Clinical Guideline Submissions

V1.0 16 Sep 2024

SUB670
ACEM submission – draft version of the Monitored Medicine prescribing

ACEM provided a short submission in response to the Western Australian Department of Health stakeholder review of the draft monitored medicine prescribing code (the draft code). ACEM is broadly supportive of the draft code.

All Prehospital & Retrieval Rural Regional & Remote Safety & Quality Standards

V7.0 01 Sep 2024

G03
Joint Guideline for the Transport of Critically Ill Patients

Joint guidance assisting organisations in the development of protocols for the pre-hospital, inter-facility and intra-facility transport (retrieval) of critically ill patients to minimise risk and maximise safety for patients and accompanying multidisciplinary staff.

All Policy Clinician Wellbeing ED Design Public Health & Prevention Safety & Quality Standards

V5.0 01 Aug 2024

P32
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.

All Guideline Policy Documentation & Handover Roles & Responsibilities in the ED Standards

V4.0 01 Aug 2024

P36
Policy on Clinical Handover in the ED

Clinical handover is a high-risk activity for patient safety due to the potential for communication error. The use of a structured tool provides a standardised approach to clinical handover. However, it should not replace clarifying communication around complex and multifaceted presentations.

SUB676 Submission to the WA Mental Health Commission – Mental Health and Alco

SUB677 ACEM Submission on the Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill

Workforce Report FACEM and Trainee Demographic and Workforce 2023

SUB673 Response to Inquiry into health impactions of alcohol & other drug use

TA930 Exceptional Circumstances and Special Consideration: Examinations

Emergency Medicine – Building Our Future Summit Report

SUB670 ACEM submission – draft version of the Monitored Medicine prescribing

G03 Joint Guideline for the Transport of Critically Ill Patients

P32 Policy on Violence in Emergency Departments

P36 Policy on Clinical Handover in the ED

SUB676
Submission to the WA Mental Health Commission – Mental Health and Alco