The State Spinal Cord Injury Service (SSCIS) held consultations across NSW to identify current practice and inform future planning for delivery of timely access to appropriate levels of specialist care and support for people with spinal cord injury.
The SSCIS identified training needs for clinicians in non-spinal cord injury units. Working with clinicians from specialist spinal cord injury units (SCIUs) and non-specialist trauma centres, the network has co-designed a suite of evidence-based and user-friendly resources.
The resources address the knowledge gap and build capability of clinicians at non-specialist hospitals to provide evidence-based care to people with a spinal cord injury.
The first resource, Spinal Cord Injury Bowel Management Guide for Clinicians in Non-spinal Units, has been published on the ACI website.