1. NSW Emergency Care Institute Sophie Baugh Project Manager

2. Improving patient outcomes foster communication across all stakeholders provide strong collaborative leadership on future directions for emergency care reduce variation in clinical practice provide forum for analysis and assessment of information and knowledge sharing research and deliver innovative solutions to emergency care challenges

3. Activities On line stakeholder survey and EOIs Governance structures Sepsis project Launch and Emergency Care Symposium Development of a new interactive website to share best practice and communicate across all stakeholder groups Consumer forum to be planned to determine emergency care priorities for the community Provision of expert input, advice and guidance on all NSW Health ED-related projects. Roll out of ECI projects through networks

4. Survey respondents by staff group

5. What is the biggest challenge facing emergency care in NSW at the moment?

7. Governance Executive Committee Representative Clinical Advisory Committee Matthew Bragg Kylie Stark Incident Advisory Committee Tony Joseph Anne Hawkins Research Advisory Committee Richard Paoloni Kate Curtis

8. Emergency care symposium Featuring the ECI Launch Friday 4 November 2011 Stamford Plaza Sydney Airport, Cnr Robey and O’Riordan Street, Mascot

9. Dr Sally McCarthy Medical Director sally.mccarthy@aci.health.nsw.gov.au Vanessa Evans Network Manager vanessa.evans@aci.health.nsw.gov.au Sophie Baugh Manager Special Projects sophie.baugh@aci.health.nsw.gov.au