Dear friends & colleagues,
We're pleased to share with you our Autumn 2022 issue of FIRST by CAA. Learn what is happening in the Australasian Ambulance sector, and gain insight into innovative projects. Click below to read and download.
Our CAA Congress website went live last week and we would love for you to have a look and find out what the three days of Congress will look like. We want to pay specific attention to one of our keynote speakers Dr Norman Swan, Australia's most respected health journalist. Read on to learn more about Dr Swan and what he'll be discussing at the CAA Congress.
There's less than one week to go until our upcoming March webinar with Julie Piantadosi. Come along to learn how to be the best version of yourself. Register anytime before the start time to join.
Don't forget, our CAA 2022 Awards for Excellence submissions are open for submissions until April 14. With six different categories, the CAA Awards for Excellence allows us to highlight the important and innovative projects being implemented to help shape and improve the Australasian Ambulance sector.
With kindest regards,
Mojca Bizjak-Mikic
General Manager
This issue is filled with topical and thought-provoking articles, highlighting the current demand management issue, diving into the life of St John WA CEO Michelle Fyfe, and shining light on the current happenings of the Australasian Ambulance sector. Click here to read. 
Tickets for 2022 CAA Congress are now available to purchase Head over to our CAA Congress website to learn more and purchase your tickets. On our website you can gain insight into our three day program, learn about our exciting speakers, find out who will be exhibiting at our Expo, and plenty more. Information made available on the website will continue to grow as the CAA Congress draws closer.
11th - 13th August, 2022 International Convention Centre, Sydney Complete with heavily anticipated specialised forums, a jam-packed Expo, captivating Welcome Function, and the glamorous Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner, CAA Congress is truly Australasia's industry premiere event.
Speaker Spotlight
Dr Norman Swan Dr Norman Swan is one of our CAA Congress keynote speakers. Norman hosts The Health Report on the ABC's Radio National, which is the world's longest running health programme in the English speaking world. Norman has won many awards for his work including Australia's top prize for journalism, the Gold Walkley. He was the third person to be awarded the prestigious medal of the Australian Academy of Science and was given an honorary MD by the University of Sydney on its 150th Anniversary.
Norman has consulted to the World Heath Organisation and co-chaired a global meeting of health ministers in Bamako West Africa focused on evidence based policy and priorities in health research. He has been the Australian correspondent for both the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Dr Swan will paint the picture of what health systems will look like in the next 5-10 years. He will review what the last two years of pandemic, demand management growth and health surge has done to the sector and how the systems need to adapt to be better for our patients, teams, and the public.
Read about our other CAA Congress speakers here.
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Call for Abstracts
We would like to invite you to submit an Abstract for consideration by the committee for inclusion in the CAA Congress 2022. This is a fantastic opportunity to share your knowledge, innovation, success stories, and ideas.
Submissions will be closing in just over 2 weeks on 31st March 2022.
All abstracts must be submitted via email to events@caa.net.au
Click here for full details and guidelines.
Get your organisation involved
Click here to view the full 2022 Congress Prospectus to find out how you can get involved as a sponsor or exhibitor. Contact us if you're interested or have any questions.
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| Join us next month for our March Webinar
'Women in Leadership - Real women fix each other's crowns'
Tuesday March 22nd 11am AEDT
Do you struggle with motivation on purpose? Do you get overwhelmed, trying to take care of everyone around you, often taking care of yourself last?
Do you have limiting belief that stops you living your life to the fullest? If this sounds like you, then you're not going to want to miss this session.
In this up close and personal session, Julie will share her own experiences, whilst teaching you how you can use your own cape and super powers to be the best version of yourself you can be, and how this will impact on the lives of those around you.
Click here to register
Our 2022 webinars are available for you to register to now, just click here | |
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The annual CAA Awards for Excellence have been developed by the Council of Ambulance Authorities to acknowledge and encourage innovations from Ambulance Services throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. With six categories, and an overall Star Award winner, the CAA Awards for Excellence gives everyone the opportunity to share their innovations to help elevate the Ambulance sector.
Click here to find out more, and here for information on how to enter. | |
| Important dates:
Entries Close: 14 April
Finalists Announced: 8 June
Winners Announced: 12 August at CAA Congress | |
|  Are you looking for your next exciting career opportunity?
Check out the CAA Job Board on our website for information regarding current roles available within our member services and the wider ambulance sector.
https://www.caa.net.au/job-board
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To visit The Directory, please click here
About The Council of Ambulance Authorities
The Council of Ambulance Authorities is the peak industry body for Australian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea ambulance services. CAA represents a unified voice for the pre-hospital sector working to respond to changing community needs by collaborating on issues on metropolitan, regional, national and international significance, and works tirelessly to collaborate on the ambulance and pre-hospital issues of metropolitan, regional, national and international significance.
The CAA was set up in 1962 to provide ambulance service CEOs with a networking opportunity to discuss issues, learnings and achievements current to the pre-hospital industry. Today the board consists of CEOs from each member service.
Member services collective knowledge and expertise provide a sound foundation to explore opportunities for improvement and innovation and to advocate on the sector's behalf in key areas.
To read more about us visit our website.
