ACI Emergency Care Institute (ECI)

The ACI Emergency Care Institute (ECI) was formally launched by the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP, Minister for Health, Minister for Medical Research, on 4 November. The inaugural symposium attracted 250 emergency care clinicians from across NSW. 

The ECI brings together clinicians, consumers and key stakeholders across NSW to promote and disseminate evidence based care including new models of care to address challenges in emergency care and to encourage and support emergency care research and innovation. 

The ECI is keen to engage consumers directly in the work of its committees, which will meet quarterly in 2012.  For more information on the terms of reference of ECI committees and the members and to view keynote presentations from the inaugural ECI symposium visit the ECI website: www.ecinsw.com.au. 

Initial meetings of the ECI committees are as follows: 

• Clinical Advisory Committee – Monday, 28 November 2011
• Incident Advisory Committee – Monday, 5 December 2011
• Research Advisory Committee – Tuesday, 6 December 2011
• Executive Committee – Tuesday, 13 December 2011

All meetings will take place at ACI offices in Chatswood, Sydney. It will be possible to teleconference in, if you are unable to attend in person. 

Ideally ECI is looking for consumers with direct experience of accessing care in Emergency Departments in public hospitals within the NSW health system, carers of such patients, or representatives of health or disability non government organisations with relevant experience. 

If you are interested in joining an ECI committee, please let Maeve Eikli know by phone on 02 8644 2169 or by email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .