Australasia
» Ambulance Service of New South Wales
The Ambulance Service of NSW is committed to providing high quality clinical care and health related transport services to over 6.3 million people in NSW, distributed across an area of 801,600 square kilometres.
More than 3,300 men and women work from 266 locations across the State, operating over 800 ambulance vehicles and 300 support vehicles to provide emergency, non-emergency, aeromedical, rescue and retrieval services.
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» Auckland Trauma Service (NZ)
Webiste of the trauma service of Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand. [Read More...]
» AusAid
AusAID is the Australian Government agency responsible for managing the Australia's overseas aid program. The objective of the aid program is to help developing countries reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development, consistent with Australia's national interest. [Read More...]
» Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)
The ACEM is an incorporated educational institution whose prime objective is the training and examination of specialist emergency physicians for Australia and New Zealand. [Read More...]
» Australasian College of Road Safety
The College was established in 1988 as an association for individuals and organisations working in or interested in supporting road safety. The College is multi-disciplinary in its membership, and values experience as much as academic qualifications in its members. [Read More...]
» Australasian Trauma Society (ATS)
The Society was set up in 1997 by a group of health professionals interested in trauma care. Membership of the Society is open to doctors, nurses and paramedical personnel from both Australia and New Zealand. Associate membership is open to others who may not be included in the above categories. [Read More...]
» Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN)
The Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (formerly the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses - CACCN), is the professional organisation representing nurses practising or interested in critical care in Australia.
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» Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is the peak professional organisation for rural medical education and training in Australia. [Read More...]
» Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP)
ANCAP involves crash testing new model vehicles - under strictly controlled conditions - to compare the injury levels (and survival prospects) of occupants involved in frontal and side impacts and publish the results.There is also a separate test to assess pedestrian protection. The results of these tests are not included in the overall evaluation, but are reported separately [Read More...]
» Australian Resuscitation Council
The Australian Resuscitation Council is a voluntary co-ordinating body which represents all major groups involved in the teaching and practice of resuscitation. The Australian Resuscitation Council produces Guidelines to meet its objectives in fostering uniformity and simplicity in resuscitation techniques and terminology. [Read More...]
» Australian Transport Safety Bureau Statistics
ATSB conducts an ongoing program of national road toll statistical collection, analysis and publication. It enables ATSB to monitor current road trends and highlights factors or user groups most at risk.This page contains links to all the statistical information published by ATSB Road Safety. [Read More...]
» Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (NSW)
The Bureau is a statistical and research agency within the NSW Attorney General's Department. It was established in 1969. It's focus includes developing and maintaining statistical databases on crime and criminal justice in NSW; conducting research on crime and criminal justice issues and problems; monitoring trends in crime and criminal justice; providing information and advice on crime and criminal justice in NSW. [Read More...]
» Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP)
The Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP) website provides information and resources to support evidence-based practice at the point of care. This resource is available to all nurses, midwives, doctors, allied health, community health, ancillary and library staff working in the NSW public health system. [Read More...]
» College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA)
Provide leadership, representation and support for emergency nurses and to promote optimum practice and challenge existing boundaries. [Read More...]
» Flinders University Research Centre for Injury Studies
RCIS incorporates the AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) which is a collaborating unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It aims to inform community discussion and support policy-making on the prevention and control of injury in Australia by developing, coordinating, interpreting and disseminating relevant information, research and analysis. [Read More...]
» Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT)
The Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT) manages networks set up by the Greater Metropolitan Transition Taskforce (GMTT) and new clinical networks approved by the Director-General, NSW Health.
Working groups of dedicated clinicians (doctors, nurses and allied health professionals) specialising in particular areas, together with consumers and managers, guide the process of consultation, research and planning.
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» HSNet
HSNet is a secure website available for the use of staff working in the New South Wales human services sector. [Read More...]
» Injury Risk Management Research Centre
The New South Wales (NSW) Injury Risk Management Research Centre (IRMRC) is an independent research centre of the University of NSW. It has strong collaborative and administrative links to the UNSW Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Science. Its funding partners are NSW Health, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), the Motor Accidents Authority (MAA) and the UNSW. [Read More...]
» Intensive Care Coordination Monitoring Unit (ICCMU)
A NSW based website providing a network for critial care clinicians and patients. [Read More...]
» John Hunter Hospital Trauma Service
The John Hunter Hospital is the busiest Trauma Centre in New South Wales treating 402 severely injured (ISS >15) patients in 2004. It is the only Major (Level 1) Trauma Service outside Metropolitan Sydney. The John Hunter is the only combined adult and paediatric trauma centre in NSW. [Read More...]
» Kidsafe (NSW)
As a non-profit, non-government charity organisation, Kidsafe is internationally regarded as a leader in injury prevention and has relationships with government, research and advocacy organisations around the world, including the Child Accident Prevention Trust in the United Kingdom, and Safekids in the United States of America. [Read More...]
» Lifetime Care and Support Scheme
"The Lifetime Care & Support Scheme provides treatment, rehabilitation and care services to people severely injured in motor accidents in NSW, regardless of who was at fault in the accident. People who are eligible for the Scheme will have a spinal cord injury, moderate to severe brain injury, multiple amputations, severe burns or permanent blindness." [Read More...]
» Liverpool Hospital Trauma Department (Sydney)
Webiste for the Trauma Department of Liverpool Hospital, Sydney. [Read More...]
» Motor Accidents Authority (MAA)
The NSW compulsory third party (CTP) motor vehicle insurance scheme provides compensation for people injured in motor vehicle accidents that are the fault of another vehicle owner or driver. Funds from the scheme are also used for research and education projects that prevent and reduce injuries and their consequences and
road safety awareness campaigns.
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» National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH)
The National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH), based in Brisbane, is the Australian centre of excellence in health classification theory and an expert centre in clinical coding systems. The NCCH is dedicated to supporting our clients in their use of health classifications and related products. [Read More...]
» National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
The NHMRC is Australia’s leading expert body promoting the development and maintenance of public and individual health standards.
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» National Health Data Dictionary (Australia)
The National Health Data Dictionary comprises all current data standards in the health sector. These data standards are compiled regularly and produced as a formal dated publication. This document is a key reference for the NSW Trauma Data Dictionary. [Read More...]
» National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS)
The National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) is Australia’s national agency for improving health care by helping close important gaps between best available evidence and current clinical practice.
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» National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) is Australia’s national body that leads and coordinates national efforts to prevent workplace death, injury and disease in Australia. [Read More...]
» National Trauma Research Institute
The National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI), incorporating the Victorian Trauma Foundation Centre for Trauma Research & Practice (VTF-CTRP) at The Alfred is the first Institute of its kind in Australia. It aims to prevent or limit the disabling effects of traumatic injuries through research and education in trauma care. [Read More...]
» New Zealand Guidelines Group
The New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG) leads a movement towards the delivery of high quality health and disability services throughout New Zealand through a change in culture based on evidence and effectiveness. [Read More...]
» NRMA Careflight Helicopter
Since 1986 CareFlight has provided the people of NSW with one of the world's most advanced and medically proficient rapid-response emergency helicopter and medical retrieval services. [Read More...]
» NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program
The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program (BIRP) was established in 1990 as a joint initiative between the NSW Department of Health and the Motor Accidents Authority as a specialist network to provide services to people suffering from a Traumatic Brain Injury and to fill the gaps left by general rehabilitation services in care of people with Traumatic Brain Injury. [Read More...]
» NSW Health
The NSW health system comprises the following: NSW Minister for Health, Minister Assisting the NSW Minister for Health (Cancer), NSW Department of Health Public health organisations. [Read More...]
» NSW Health Privacy Manual
The NSW Health Privacy Manual provides operational guidance for health service staff to the legislative obligations imposed by the Health
Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. The document outlines
procedures to support compliance with the Act in any activity that involves
personal health information. [Read More...]
» NSW Institute of Medical Education and Training (IMET)
The NSW Institute of Medical Education and Training (IMET) was established by the Minister and Director-General of Health to develop and support medical education and training provided in NSW.
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» NSW Newborn & Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS)
'NETS' is the statewide emergency service for medical retrieval of critically ill newborns, infants and children in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. [Read More...]
» NSW Police
The NSW Police is Australia's oldest and largest police organisation and one of the biggest in the English speaking world. It has 17,000 employees, including more than 13,300 police. It serves a population of seven million in the state of New South Wales, an 801,600 square kilometre area comparable in size to Texas in the USA and double the combined geographic areas of England, Scotland and Wales. it operates on land, sea and from the air. [Read More...]
» Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEMS)
Within the PEMS website, you will find information about paediatric emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand, the paediatric emergency medicine departments around Australia and New Zealand, a links page to hospital websites that see a large proportion of paediatric patients in their emergency departments, and other useful information pages.
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» ParaQuad
ParaQuad NSW is a not-for-profit member-based association striving to empower people with spinal cord injury to achieve their potential. [Read More...]
» Physiotherapy Excercises for People with Spinal Cord Injuries
Compiled by physiotherapists associated with the Moorong Spinal Unit, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney;
Spinal Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and Spinal Unit, The Prince of Wales Hospital. This website currently contains over 300 physiotherapy exercises appropriate for people with spinal cord injuries. [Read More...]
» Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) Accident Statistics
The RTA maintains statistical reports about traffic accidents in NSW. These documents are prepared for information purposes, including research by road safety practitioners. [Read More...]
» Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) Road Safety
The RTA is the NSW State Government agency responsible for: Improving road safety; Testing and licensing drivers and registering and inspecting vehicles;
Managing the road network to achieve consistent travel times.
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» Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
The professional body representing all surgeons in Australasia. Principle aim is to train surgeons from the 2nd year after graduation through until they pass a fellowshop exam and attain sufficient experience in operating and managing patients with surgical conditions. [Read More...]
» Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA)
Royal College of Nursing, Australia is the nation's leading professional organisation representing nurses from all areas of practice throughout Australia.
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» Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) is a not-for-profit charitable service providing aeromedical emergency and primary health care services together with communication and education assistance to people who live, work and travel in regional and remote Australia. [Read More...]
» Royal Perth Hospital Trauma Services
Royal Perth Hospital is the main provider of major trauma service in Western Australia, treating about 65 per cent of the State's major trauma cases. [Read More...]
» Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney
The Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney is a not for profit, affiliated health organisation. We work in partnership with clients to maximise abilities and optimise lifeskills following injury or illness, offering specialist rehabilitation and disability programs for adults who have sustained spinal cord injury, brain injury, orthopaedic injury and illness, age related illness, burns, cancer, multi-trauma and other conditions. [Read More...]
» SESIAHS Trauma Service
St George Hospital is the major Trauma Centre for the South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service (SESIAHS), which extends from Sydney Harbour in the north to Durras in the south. As a Major Trauma Service, St George Hospital is a Tertiary care facility, we provide all clinical specialties including Trauma Rehabilitation services. Consultation, leadership, research and education binds a Major Trauma Service to its networks, together with an integrated, prospective performance improvement program, which supports excellence in clinical management. [Read More...]
» Sirens
Sirens is the fortnightly newsletter published by the Ambulance Service of NSW. [Read More...]
» Sydney Medical Simulation Centre
The Sydney Medical Simulation Centre (SMSC) is situated on the campus of the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. It is a training and research facility that specializes in Clinical Skills, Human Factors and Patient Safety training for multidisciplinary critical care teams. It houses a suite of simulators and uses a variety of educational techniques, and specializes in scenario-based / reflective learning with video debrief.
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» The Alfred's Department of Trauma Surgery (Melbourne)
The Alfred's Department of Trauma Surgery is one of the major Victorian trauma service providers, treating approximately half of all Victorian trauma cases. The Department of Trauma Surgery provides state-of-the-art emergency trauma and critical care for injured patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Department of Trauma Surgery is the largest and most active Trauma Service in Australasia. It receives the greates number of trauma cases of any hospital in Australasia and has developed a strong leadership in this area. Almost 2400 trauma patients are admitted anually, with over 800 of these patients classed as major trauma.
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» The George Institute for International Health
Injury prevention and trauma care research at The George Institute focuses on road traffic injuries, musculoskeletal diseases and injury, indigenous injury prevention and trauma care, reflecting the growing global burden of mortality and morbidity due to injury. [Read More...]
» The Westmead PTA Protocol
Guidelines for using the Westmead Post Traumatic Amnesia (PTA) Scale. [Read More...]
» Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative
The Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative (VNI) supports research into Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and Peripheral Nerve Injury (PNI) conducted by Victorian scientists in collaboration with their national and international colleagues. [Read More...]
» Westmead Hospital Trauma Centre (Sydney)
Westmead Trauma Centre is one of Australia's largest and busiest Trauma Centres with over 2200 admissions per year. Westmead is the busiest Major Trauma Centre in the Sydney Metropolitan Region and the third busiest in Australia. [Read More...]
» Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter (Northern Region)
The Northern Region Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter Service is a not for profit community-oriented organisation. We are based in Lismore, just west of Byron Bay in Northern New South Wales. [Read More...]
» Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter (Southern Region)
With a total of seven sophisticated specially equipped helicopters, the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service provides the means to quickly and efficiently deliver emergency medical specialists to the most inaccessible areas of NSW whenever life is threatened. [Read More...]
» Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service (Hunter New England Region)
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service is a community owned and operated aeromedical search and rescue service, serving the Hunter, Mid North Coast, New England and North West regions. It is one of six helicopter services contracted by NSW Health to perform emergency services in the New South Wales community. [Read More...]
» WorkCover NSW
WorkCover promotes workplace health and safety, and provides a workers compensation system for the employers and workers of NSW. [Read More...]
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