30/05/2023
Alice Springs currently has positions available within our FACEM team.
Alice Springs Hospital is a 210 bed facility with a great culture of collaboration between the different specialities. We are 1500km to the nearest tertiary facility and service an area of over 1 million km2 with around 50000 presentations a year with a 42% admission rate, median age of 34 years and 22% paediatric presentations.
We offer high acuity medicine in a young population where 80% patients are Aboriginal, and see high rates of rheumatic heart disease, bronchiectasis, chronic liver disease, overwhelming sepsis, renal disease, as well as significant trauma.
As a smaller facility we have great collegiate relationships with our inpatient colleagues – and access block and overcrowding is the exception rather than the rule.
The hospital has a 10 bed ICU/ HDU. The hospital is serviced by General physicians, Renal physicians, General surgeons, Orthopaedics,...
Alice Springs Hospital ED
Alice Springs Hospital: Emergency Department, Gap Road, Alice Springs NT, Australia
Full time