'We often say "you only grow when you step out of your comfort zone,"' FACEM Ashes Mukherjee observes. 'International medical graduates have stepped out.
We stand in solidarity with our medical and nursing colleagues in Myanmar, who strive to deliver essential emergency care to the people whilst demanding.
Liberal Party Victoria
Statement on theSummary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisation of Public Drunkenness) Bill 2020
The Liberal Nationals acknowledge that this legislation follows the recommendation of the Coroner into a recent tragic death in custody of an Indigenous woman. However, this legislation to decriminalise public drunkenness fails to detail the alternative health response model.
Both the Police Association and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine have said ill-thought-out reforms will actually do more harm than good to community safety.
Often alcohol and drug use is associated with other serious offending, such as violent coward punch attacks, violence, verbal abuse and property damage. By decriminalising public drunkenness with no plan to manage affected individuals, Daniel Andrews threatens to leave Victoria Police unable to intervene and the broader community fending for itself.
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WA election: Parties must outline plans for healthcare crisis fix
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) is calling for parties contesting the looming Western Australian election to urgently explain how they will fix the state’s ambulance ramping and hospital access block crisis.
This comes as ambulance ramping – caused by a lack of physical space in emergency departments (ED) leading to ambulances being unable to unload patients for urgent hospital care – has reached an unprecedented crisis point in the state.
Ramping means ambulances and crews have to remain at hospital entry points or driveways and continue to provide care until ED space becomes available. This not only delays the assessment and treatment of a patient in an ED, but ties up crews who are unable to respond to further calls for assistance in the community.