ACEM - Standards and Advocacy Library

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.

All ACEM Research Clinician Wellbeing Rostering and Staffing Workforce Reports

V1.0 01 Aug 2020

2019 Annual Site Census Report

Understanding how and where our emergency medicine workforce is working and the issues they face, including increasing patient demand is important to ACEM and workforce planning.

All Mental Health Submissions

V1.0 29 Jul 2020

SUB451
Consultation Paper - Service Model for Adult Mental Health Centres

ACEM confirmed broad support for the Commonwealth Government Commonwealth Department of Health Potential Service Model for Adult Mental Health Centres. Clear communication strategies should be developed that help consumers, carers and referrers have a clear understanding of where to go when experiencing a mental health crisis.

VIC Safety & Quality Vulnerable Patients Submissions

V1.0 09 Jul 2020

SUB450
Better Access to Naloxone and Sterile Injecting Equipment

ACEM recommendations to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed reforms to supply settings for naloxone and sterile injecting equipment. ACEM believes the criminalisation of drug use adds to the harms experienced by people who use drugs and do not support the introduction of a new offence for on-selling.

All Cultural safety Public Health & Prevention Safety & Quality Triage Submissions

V1.0 03 Jul 2020

SUB449
National Injury Prevention 2020 - 2030

ACEM is supportive of the National Injury Prevention Strategy with recommendations to promote further research to inform best practice and culturally appropriate interventions. There is a need for cohesive relationships between EDs, transport, and infrastructure are all essential in reducing the burden of injury from road trauma.

All Policy Statement Public Health & Prevention Standards

V1.0 01 Jul 2020

S769
Statement on Harm Minimisation Related to Drug Use

ACEM supports evidence-based approaches to harm minimisation. Harm minimisation is a multipronged approach to drug use through harm reduction (reducing risk behaviours or creating safer settings), demand reduction (preventing uptake or providing appropriate treatment) and supply reduction (regulation and reducing production and supply).

All Policy Statement Ethics Standards

V1.0 01 Jul 2020

S731
Statement on Consent in Emergency Medicine Research

This statement supports Fellows and trainees of ACEM, and other emergency care researchers, in Australia and New Zealand in designing (and justifying the design of) clinical trials. Also – and of equal importance – it supports the right of critically ill patients to be involved in research in a timely manner.

All Policy Statement Public Health & Prevention Standards

V4.0 01 Jul 2020

S43
Statement on Alcohol Harm

ACEM supports adopting a harm minimisation approach to alcohol. ACEM supports strategies that regulate the availability, price and marketing of alcohol to reduce supply. In addition, ACEM supports demand-reduction approaches through brief interventions in the ED and broader public health messaging and education.

AU Policy Clinician Wellbeing Public Health & Prevention Vulnerable Patients Standards

V4.0 01 Jul 2020

P39
Policy on Family and Domestic Violence and Abuse

This Policy relates to the identification, screening, treatment and support of patients who present to the emergency department (ED) and are experiencing family and domestic violence and abuse (FDVA). It recognises that ED staff who treat and counsel patients experiencing FDVA can be vulnerable, also requiring organisational support.

All Policy Public Health & Prevention Rural Regional & Remote Standards

V3.0 01 Jul 2020

P40
Policy on Early Access to Defibrillation for Cardiac Arrest

This document relates to the adequate provision for early access to defibrillation of sudden cardiac arrest within healthcare institutions and in public settings.

SUB 456 Choosing Wisely: Pharmacy Recommendations August 2020

2019 Annual Site Census Report

SUB451 Consultation Paper - Service Model for Adult Mental Health Centres

SUB450 Better Access to Naloxone and Sterile Injecting Equipment

SUB449 National Injury Prevention 2020 - 2030

S769 Statement on Harm Minimisation Related to Drug Use

S731 Statement on Consent in Emergency Medicine Research

S43 Statement on Alcohol Harm

P39 Policy on Family and Domestic Violence and Abuse

P40 Policy on Early Access to Defibrillation for Cardiac Arrest

SUB 456
Choosing Wisely: Pharmacy Recommendations August 2020