Listen to every episode from the Global Emergency and Critical Care Conference in one curated feed.

What's inside: Case studies, expert panel discussions, presentations from leaders around the Pacific.

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What you'll learn:

•  why emergency care is a fundamental safety net, not an expensive luxury, for entire health systems facing routine failures and climate disasters.
• how accreditation and regional partnerships enhance emergency medicine leadership across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific.
• why acute care must function as one connected system—from community recognition through referral transport to hospital care—rather than isolated technical projects.
• how addressing legal scopes of practice and identifying hidden facility bottlenecks (such as a shortage of simple oxygen regulators) can unlock major health system capacity.
• the challenges of balancing planned surgical care with unplanned emergency demands in volatile contexts.
• how Vanuatu transformed its ambulance services into community-integrated hubs that manage non-conveyance safely and act as shock absorbers for the health system.
• about distance-learning supervisory models, island-hopping outreach teams, and the urgent push for formal specialist recognition for ICU nurses.
• the clinical challenges of managing complex opportunistic infections, stigma, and co-infections in resource-constrained hospital settings.
• how local initiatives—such as Palau's home-grown Basic Emergency Care master trainers and Samoa's nurse-led clinical protocols—are building sustainable, self-reliant care networks.
• powerful insights on how healthcare leaders can normalize asking for help and build humanly sustainable systems

...and more!