ACEM - Standards and Advocacy Library

Patients with acute mental and behavioural conditions disproportionately experience unacceptably long waits in the ED for inpatient mental health care following admission to hospital. This report presents the findings from ACEM's research on mental health presentations to Australian and NZ EDs accredited by ACEM.

NT Cultural safety Ethics Safety & Quality Submissions

V1.0 15 Jan 2018

SUB369
National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers in the Territory

ACEM response (15 Jan 2018) regarding the National Code of Conduct for unregistered health care workers in the Northern Territory. The Code sets reasonable standards of behaviour for health care workers who are not regulated under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme.

All Clinician Wellbeing Workforce Reports

V1.0 01 Nov 2016

2016 Workforce Sustainability Survey Report

ACEM is committed to monitoring the sustainability of the emergency medicine workforce, against the backdrop of increasing patient demand, access block, overcrowding and system issues.

All Policy Ethics Resource Stewardship Standards

V2.0 01 Aug 2015

P435
Policy on Resource Stewardship

ACEM supports initiatives and actions that maintain or improve patient outcomes and facilitate resource stewardship through the promotion of sustainable resource allocation and disinvestment from ineffective interventions or practices. ACEM also supports initiatives that decrease variation in clinical practice and clinical policies.

Prevalence of Mental Health Access Block

SUB369 National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers in the Territory

2016 Workforce Sustainability Survey Report

P435 Policy on Resource Stewardship

SUB369
National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers in the Territory

P435
Policy on Resource Stewardship