Council approved the appointment of Professor Irene Tracey as the 2026 ANZCA ASM Visitor and noted the 2026 ANZCA ASM Australasian Visitor, Professor Alicia Dennis and 2026 ASM New Zealand Visitor, Professor Tim Walsh. The 2026 ASM is being held in Auckland, New Zealand.
Governance documents
Council approved amendments to the following training handbooks and regulations:
- Diving Hyperbaric Medicine training handbook and Regulation 36.
- Perioperative Medicine (POM) course training handbook and Regulation 45.
- SIMG training handbook and Regulation 23.
- ANZCA Anaesthesia Training Program Handbook and Regulation 37.
- Rural Generalist Anaesthesia handbook for training and Regulation 44.
Chapter of Perioperative Medicine
Council noted the terms of reference for the two committees that will report to the board of the Chapter of Perioperative Medicine.
PG47 Guideline on training and practice of perioperative diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound
Council approved the new ANZCA professional document PG47 Perioperative diagnostic POCUS and accompanying background paper (PG47BP) for piloting for a four-month pilot period (12 weeks).
Anaphylaxis guideline
Council approved the development of a new professional document on perioperative anaphylaxis management.
Council noted the workforce reform landscape continues to get increasingly more complicated with several new workforce reforms announced or commenced in the past two weeks. ANZCA continues to engage in these reforms, noting it is taking significant resources and time, and many of the reforms and who/which body is leading them seem to be overlapping at times.
Council approved changes to the ANZCA investment strategy following options presented by the college’s investment managers JANA in relation to the college’s three investment funds.
The JANA review specifically looked at:
- Design parameters of each fund, for example, return objective; risk tolerance and liquidity requirements.
Strategic asset allocation, that is, the classes of assets the college would invest in and the percentage allocation to each asset class. The result of the review was that the college would remain in the same asset classes however there would be some changes in the weighting between classes to reflect the required risk, return and liquidity profiles of each fund.