Australian College of Ambulance Professionals

New Zealand takes the next step towards practitioner registration

In July an education and registration working party for Ambulance New Zealand released a series of discussion documents on registration for ambulance officers and defence force medics in New Zealand. These may be viewed by going to the dedicated website on registration at http://www.ambulancenz.co.nz/.
As part of helping practitioners learn more about registration, a consultation program [...]

Clinical Simulation Workshop (Perth)

Australian College of Ambulance Professionals

Educational Special Interest Group
(EduSIG)

CLINICAL SIMULATION WORKSHOP
(This is a pre-conference workshop associated with the ACAP National Conference 2010)

Thursday 14th October 2010
0800 – 1600

St John Ambulance Australia (Western Australia)
209 Great Western Highway, Belmont WA

Inquiries need to be directed to either person as below.
Jeff Allan Mob: 0409 [...]

Queensland Health Quality and Complaints Commission seeks comment

The Queensland Health Quality and Complaints Commission (HQCC) is seeking feedback on the proposed changes to their healthcare standards. The HQCC has recently reviewed these Standards with a view to incorporating greater consumer focus and clearer guidelines on improving the safety of health services.
ACAP intends to prepare a submission to provide comment on the new standards [...]

ACAP and NCAU Agreement on Registration Principles

On Monday 24th May, representatives of the Australian College of Ambulance Professionals (ACAP) and the National Council of Ambulance Unions (NCAU) met to discuss common interests in the quest for national registration of paramedics and regulation of the paramedic profession.
Wide ranging discussions took place including collaborative actions that could advance the matter without delay.
ACAP and [...]

Parliamentary committee recommends paramedic registration

The Destined to Fail Report was tabled in the Western Australian Parliament on 6 May by the Education and Health Standing Committee. (Tabled Papers Nos. 2057-59).
The Report is in two volumes with Volume 2 dealing with the Community Health Sector. It is notable that the Committee deals with the matter of Paramedic Registration in Chapter [...]

ACT ICP’s recognised as Health Professionals

ACT Ambulance Service (ACTAS) Intensive Care Paramedics (ICP’s) have been recognised as Health Professionals by Fair Work Australia.
The decision, brought down by Commissioner Deegan on 29 March, follows a prolonged campaign by the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU).  ACAP (ACT) contributed throughout the campaign by drafting of definitions and descriptors of ICP work, as well as [...]