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Audits of Surgical Mortality

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Council (College Council) is commited to a bi-national surgical mortality audit program which has been modelled on the successful Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality (WAASM).

The College fully encourages the audit program as it is fully owned by the surgeons with the understanding for the need to have partnerships with Governments and other bodies.

According to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons', Continuing Professional Development Manual 2010–12, it is a "requirement to participate in the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality if a surgeon is in operative based practice, has a surgical death and an audit of surgical mortality is available in the surgeon's hospital."

• Participation as a first or second line assessor remains voluntary and encouraged.

The Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality (ANZASM) Steering Committee is the amalgamation of the Australian state-based and New Zealand audits of surgical mortality.

The ANZASM has been formed to engage and progress the audit implementation in all regions. It provides a forum to support and guide the development of the audit in all states and New Zealand to ensure that both consistency and high standards are met.

The Chair, Professor Guy Maddern, is a senior RACS Councillor and a strong advocate of surgical audits.
The Director is Dr Wendy Babidge.

ANZASM Manager: Gordon Guy
Telephone: +61 8 8363 7513
Fax: +61 8 8362 2077

ANZASM is comprised of the following regional audits:

• Australian Capital Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality (ACTASM) : Karen Ramsden (Project Manager)
• Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality (QASM) : Therese Rey-Conde (Project Manager)
• Northern Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality (NTASM) : Therese Rey-Conde (Project Manager)
• South Australian Audit of Perioperative Mortality (SAAPM) : Kenneth Lang (Project Manager)
• Tasmanian Audit of Surgical Mortality (TASM) : Lisa Lynch (Project Manager)
• Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) : Claudia Retegan (Project Manager)
• Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality (WAASM) : Diana Azzam (Project Manager)
• The Collaborative Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality (CHASM) of NSW maintains membership within ANZASM but is managed by the Clinical Excellence Commission under the direction of Professor Cliff Hughes.