NSW Education Collaborative for Speciality Services

• Reports
• Orange Presentations
• Tamworth Presentations

NECSS was formed in mid-2006 with the aim to develop, promote and coordinate specialty education activities in rural NSW using a collaborative approach. The establishment of NECSS has acted to support current NSW rural education services at a local level, thus addressing the issue of ‘distance versus access' to education. Services represented within NECSS include:

• Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce - GMCT)
  • Severe Burn Injury (NSW Severe Burn Injury Services - SBIS)
  • Spinal Cord Injury (NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service - SSCIS)
  • Cardiology
  • Stoke
• Paediatrics (NSW newborn & paediatric Emergency Transport Service - NETS)
• Trauma (NSW Institute of Trauma & Injury Management - ITIM)
• Intensive Care (Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit - ICCMU) 

The seminar "Care of the Critically Ill" has been developed to provide rural clinicians with an overview of a number of different types of patients who may present with a critical illness.

• The target audience is the rural clinician who works in any clinical setting from a multi-purpose centre to a base hospital.
• The content concentrates on the basics and need-to-knows for a number of critical conditions from the speciality areas of paediatrics, burns, trauma, intensive care, cardiology, neurology and spinal injuries. 
• The program runs for two days with content presented in lectures, skill stations and tutorials
• To date the seminar has been run at five locations and reports can be found elsewhere on this page.
• The presentations from Orange March 2009 are available as PDF documents below.

The next seminar will be held in Tamworth on October 22-23 2009. For more information please contact ICCMU.

• Tamworth Brochure

 Reports

The five 'Care of the Critically ill' Seminars held to this time have all been highly evaluated by participants. The vast majority of participants indicate that they feel their understanding of the topic has increased and this is reflected in a statistically significant increase between pre-test and post-test scores. The reports below include all seminar details including program, participation and outcomes.