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ACI - Agency for Clinical Innovation

The Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) works with clinicians, consumers and managers to design and promote better healthcare for NSW.

The ACI’s Clinical Networks, Taskforces and Institutes provide a unique forum for people to collaborate across the NSW health system. By bringing together leaders from primary, community and acute care settings, the ACI promotes an integrated health system.

A priority for the ACI is identifying unwarranted variation in clinical practice and working in partnership with healthcare providers to develop mechanisms to improve clinical practice and patient care.

Vision and mission

To create the future of healthcare, and healthier futures for the people of NSW.

To be the lead agency for innovation in clinical care, bringing patients, clinicians and managers together to support innovation, design and implementation.

How the Agency for Clinical Innovation can help

The ACI works with clinicians, consumers and managers to design and promote better healthcare for NSW. It does this by providing the following services:

  • Service redesign and evaluation
  • Specialist advice on healthcare innovation
  • Initiatives including guidelines and models of care
  • Implementation support
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Continuous capability building

The ACI’s Clinical Networks, Taskforces and Institutes provide a unique forum for people to collaborate across clinical specialties, and regional and service boundaries to develop successful healthcare innovations.

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Last reviewed: February 2023

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Best practice care for people with acute low back pain

This guide describes best practice care for people with acute low back pain. This version has been written specifically for people with acute low back pain.

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Burn Injury Prevention and First Aid

Burns can be caused in many different ways including by hot liquid, touching hot objects, fire, chemicals, electricity, friction and even sunburn. These burns can occur anywhere, particularly in the home and workplace, and if they do happen it’s best that you and those closest to you are prepared and armed with the right information – the life you save could be your own.

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Talking to Your Children about Spinal Cord Injury: A Practical Guide for Families.

As social workers in the spinal cord injury (SCI) fi eld we acknowledge that there has been a gap in services, resources and support for parents and families to explain their injury to children. Parents engaged in NSW Spinal Services provided informal feedback regarding the lack of specifi c resources available to them to assist their child relatives through the impact of spinal cord injury on their family.

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The courage to care

“My name is Cheryl Koenig and I have a son who has a Brain Injury.” When introducing myself in a support group meeting for parents of children with disabilities, about one year after my son Jonathan’s horrific accident, I could not bring myself to say those very words. Speaking them aloud would turn my unspoken denial into reality. And instead, as if watching myself from a distance, I heard a trembling voice quietly utter, “My name is Cheryl Koenig and I have a son who has had an accident.”

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Quicker access to medical advice and life saving cardiac therapy

In the past, a doctor had to be with a person to diagnose a heart attack, but a new service that is being introduced in NSW allows an ECG to be sent quickly to a specialist doctor who may be many kilometres away. This means that people are treated much faster and, in many cases, even before they see a doctor.

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Nutrition for Adults with Spinal Cord Injury

After a spinal cord injury (SCI), it is particularly important to eat well and stay within a healthy weight range.

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Recovering after a severe brain injury

This information is for people who have experienced a traumatic (acquired) brain injury and their family/carers. It was developed in consultation with patients, their families and carers.

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Rehabilitation - What it is and what to expect

Rehabilitation (or ‘rehab’) is the process of improving your health and quality of life after injury, illness or surgery

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Delirium

This brochure provides information for people who are at risk of, or have experienced delirium, and for their families and carers.

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Parenteral Nutrition Pocketbook: For Adults

Parenteral nutrition (PN) refers to the intravenous infusion of specialised nutrition solution. This method of feeding may be required when the gastrointestinal tract is not functional or leaking, cannot be accessed, or the patient cannot be adequately nourished by oral or enteral means. In NSW, there are major variations in the way PN is administered in public hospitals.

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