Tim Priest, former Police Detective, provides a perspective on the increasing violence directed towards Health Care workers, particularly Paramedics, in his opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph (07/02/2013). Read article online here  

Congratulations to the members of our Profession on receiving the Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) in this Australia Day Honours list. Recipients included former Chairman Ian Johns, members Michael Corlis, Terry Watson, Ken Wheeler and Jonathan Byrne, Anthony Oxford, Kerry Power, Kevin E

Now in its eighth year, the Network Ten-sponsored Pride of Australia Medal awards is an initiative of News Limited newspapers, including theSunday Mail, which aims to shine the spotlight on the unsung heroes whose extraordinary efforts often slip by unrecognised. The 2012 Pride of Aus

The College is pleased to announce that at its 2012 AGM the three Director positions up for election were filled, with Peter Lang and Michael Smith re-elected to the board, and Sue Cruttenden elected to the third position vacated by retiring Director and Vice Chairman Ryan Lovett. The

The College extends its best wishes to the two Sydney Paramedics injured in a motor vehicle accident today. The two Paramedics were responding to a 000 call and were involved in an accident with a truck, resulting in both Paramedics being injured, and becoming trapped in the vehicle,

On Friday 31st August 2012, Director Jordan Emery flew to Adelaide to meet with Doctor Rebecca Bilton from Health Workforce Australia. Dr Bilton is the project lead for the Expanded Scope of Paramedic Practice Project to be implemented throughout Australia. The meeting involved a disc

The College and the National Council of Ambulance Unions signed a joint position statement on the preferred option of Paramedic Regulation during the recent consultation. ACAP and ACAU both agree Option 4, the regulation of Paramedics under a National Registration Scheme administered

The College would like to thank all those who participated in providing feedback using the various mechanisms for the current consultation process on Options for the Regulation of Paramedics being undertaken by the Health Workforce Principal Committee. The number of respondents has ex

Director Jordan Emery and two student ACAPnsw members, Sarah Mead (UTAS, Sydney) and Brenton Murphy (Uni. Sunshine Coast) recently represented ACAPnsw at the inaugural Future Health Leaders Conference at the Adelaide Exhibition Centre on 1st-2nd September 2012. The conference had five

ACAPnsw has sponsored three members to attend the Future Health Leaders conference in Adelaide this September. Members had a chance to win one of the two grants, by simply telling us in two pages (A4) or less why they would make a great Future Health Leader! The promotion was open to