Sydney, Australia on 7–9 May 2012.
The Annual International Conference on Rapid Response Systems and Medical Emergency Teams is the largest international conference in this field.
 View the 2012 Conference program.
Themes for the conference will include recognising clinical deterioration, escalating care, clinical communication, responding to clinical deterioration, and organisational systems to support recognition and response systems.
For more information and to register visit the Conference website.

Call for Abstracts
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations on original work for the conference. For information on submitting abstracts please visit the Call for Abstracts page.

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Change approved
At a Special General Meeting Members voted overwhelmingly to proceed with a name change to 'College of Urgent Care Physicians.
The Registrar of Incorporated Societies approved the change on 28/10/2011- so it is now official.

New House Surgeon Training
The Medical Council is proposing big changes to house surgeon training, including:
- Compulsory community runs
- Standardised formal training
- Emphasis on general, community, broad-based and acute care medicine.

This could mean Urgent Care house surgeons, who would complete an Urgent Care training module. Council sent CUCP a discussion document, and the executive has replied. We have also polled Urgent Care facilities and have expressions of interest for around 100 house surgeon posts per annum.

CUCP's view is the change could be very positive for Urgent Care and General Practice.

Some of the potential benefits are listed in CUCP's reply.

Training Programme Changes
July 4th 2011

From 2012, new trainees will have a new pathway to fellowship. Existing trainees have a choice between the new and old pathways; CUCP expects that 2010/2011 AMCC students will be better off  with the new pathway, and pre-2010 students usually better off with the old pathway.

CUCP has sent a letter about the new pathway to all trainees.

Please contact David Gollogly with any questions.

Auckland 6-9 November 2011
see www.prevocforum.org.nz

HDC policy on 'open disclosure'
This HDC policy is about doctors notifying patients of medical errors.

Wall Street Journal item on Urgent Care
This article gives an account of the development of Urgent Care in the USA over the past 20 years and its standing. NZ Clinics have faced many of the issues covered, including relations with Emergency Medicine, and clinic accreditation.