Better healthcare culture
A national project funded by the Commonwealth, “A Better Culture”, is aiming to cultivate systemic and sustained behavioural change across the Australian healthcare sector. “Do you think it’s time to create better workplaces, a better culture, and a healthcare system where all healthcare workers can thrive and deliver the best care possible?” If so, you are encouraged to engage and provide a voice for anaesthesia and pain medicine via its reference group.
Promoting good practice and managing poor performance guidelines
We have prepared a series of guidelines for anaesthesia and pain medicine managers, leaders, mentors and colleagues that support excellent professional standards and assist in identifying and managing practitioners who may be performing below an acceptable professional standard.
CPD wellbeing education sessions
We've approved a new wellbeing CPD education sessions activity for the knowledge and skills category of the ANZCA and FPM CPD program. This activity will attract one credit per hour, capped at 10 per year, and is supported by a new CPD Handbook - Appendix 24 Guidelines for wellbeing CPD education sessions. Full details available here.
Dr Ray Hader Award for Pastoral Care
Named after Dr Ray Hader, this award promotes compassion and a focus on the welfare of anaesthetists, other colleagues, patients and the community.
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We support a number of services and initiatives which are underpinned by our commitment outlined in our Doctors' Health and Wellbeing Framework.
As part of our ongoing support for our fellows, trainees, and SIMGs, ANZCA has engaged the professional services of Converge International – a confidential and independent counselling and coaching program.
Our Critical Incident Debriefing Toolkit provides a comprehensive, evidence-based resource on what are critical incidents, how to provide support and a hot debrief following a critical incident. It can be read in sections or as a whole.
We have developed a directory of doctors' health advisory services and helplines in Australia and New Zealand.
ANZCA considers bullying, discrimination and harassment unacceptable behaviour that will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Fellows and trainees acting as college representatives are responsible for ensuring an environment free of this behaviour.
The TWPG helps to provide trainees with tangible and practical outcomes to support their wellbeing and their engagement with the college.
Wellbeing advocates are recommended for all ANZCA and FPM accredited hospitals.
The ANZCA doctors health and wellbeing framework informs our strategic and operational efforts in the wellbeing space.
This toolkit is a resource to support anaesthesia departments and individual anaesthetists to operationalise a framework they can put into action.
The aim of the Wellbeing SIG is to promote personal wellbeing and to heighten awareness of wellbeing issues in anaesthetists and pain medicine specialists. The group is an informative, educative and referral group; it has no therapeutic role.