Please join us for the 2025 NSW ACE Winter Meeting "Expecting the unexpected: Staying ahead in obstetric anaesthesia."
Two thirds of us work, at least partly, in the private sector and a good proportion of those hospitals mandate our participation in an on-call obstetrics roster. Sometimes it feels like the boundaries are being pushed. Those of us working in the public system see some of the most complicated obstetric cases requiring anaesthetic intervention. It’s hard to keep up.
In May 2024 the findings and recommendations from the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Birth Trauma were handed down. 4000 women, parents and stakeholders, made submissions to the NSW Inquiry with 1 in 3 women reporting their birthing experience to be traumatic. The inquiry has led to a push for a national response to address birth trauma and systemic failures in maternity care, to ensure all soon to be parents have access to evidence-based antenatal education and for informed consent in maternity care to be enshrined in law.
We are lucky to have Dr Morgan Edwards join us as our international speaker. Morgan is the president of the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists, the society’s representative on New Zealand’s National Obstetric Anaesthetists network and obstetric anaesthetic lead at Te Whatu Ora Waitematā in Auckland. Morgan has a podcast for obstetric patients where she seeks to educate patients in the antenatal period.
Our program presents the new guidelines on the management of post-partum haemorrhage and an update on assessing platelet function in pregnancy (did we say it’s hard to keep up?). The program has been designed with annual CPD requirements in mind. The opening plenary session will fulfil all delegates 2025 cultural safety requirements, workshops are focused on emergency response activities and the closing session will look at obstetric anaesthesia under the measuring outcomes microscope and allow delegates to undertake a critical reflection. I hope you are free to join us on 14 June and participate in what we envisage to be a very enlightening meeting.
Dr Kim Gray and Dr John Neal
Meeting Co-convenors
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Are you on Bluesky? Join the conversation #ACE25NSW
Cost and registration
Registration is now open, please register online with your college ID. All other delegates including allied health members and other medical specialties can also register online. Please select “Create Account” at the top of the page and enter your details. Once you are set up, search for the event and register. You will also be able to use your ID number and password to register for future meetings. If you require assistance, please contact us.
Registration includes (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and conference proceedings). Workshops must be selected separately when registering.
Full registration: $610.50
Allied health professionals/trainees: $488.40
Cancellation Policy - Refunds will only be provided for cancellations advised in writing prior to the registration close date. Cancellations after the close date still incur venue and catering costs and therefore can’t be refunded.
All registration fees are quoted in Australian dollars and inclusive of GST. Please visit the ANZCA terms and conditions when registering for an event.
Accommodation
Accommodation for this event is not included within the registration fee and can be booked by contacting Hilton Sydney Hotel Reservations on +61 2 9266 2000 and providing the Accommodation Group code GANZC. Or alternately book online.
If you wish to stay at the meeting venue it is advisable to book your accommodation early as the event falls over a weekend.
Continuing Professional Development
Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program will automatically have their attendance auto-populated to their CPD portfolio within 14 days of the conclusion of the meeting.
ANZCA and FPM CPD Program
This event is claimable by ANZCA and FPM CPD participants within the knowledge and skills, practice evaluation or emergency responses categories.
Category 1: Practice evaluation
Category 1: Practice evaluation – Morbidity & Mortality session
Category 1: Practice evaluation – Cultural Safety activity
Category 2: Knowledge and skills activities
Category 2: Knowledge and skills – learning sessions
Category 2: Knowledge and skills – short format learning
Category 3: Emergency responses activities
Where the outline states that the workshop satisfies an Emergency Response CPD requirement, the workshop will be prospectively recognised as suitable to be claimed as an emergency response activity.
- Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate
- Advanced Life Support (Cardiac arrest)
- Acute Severe Behavioural Disturbance
- Opioid Induced Ventilatory Impairment
If you're not a member of our CPD program
If you’re not participating in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program, please check with your respective college/provider regarding your CPD classifications. Post-event, you may request an electronic certificate of attendance for CPD evidence from the event coordinator.
Exhibitors
If you wish to be an exhibitor at the 2025 NSW ACE Winter Meeting, please click here to view the prospectus.
Contact Us
For further information, please contact us.
You might also be interested in...
This face-to-face weekly course is for SA/NT trainees preparing for the ANZCA primary exam.
This weekly course is for SA/NT trainees preparing for the ANZCA final exam.
A Successful Trial and Exciting Developments for 2025.