WebAIRS and CPD credits

ANZCA and FPM CPD Program is available on the ANZCA website. There are also details of the CPD program in the member areas of the ASA and NZSA websites.

The CPD program is accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC), and authorised by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ).

• It operates on a three-year cycle, with triennial and annual minimum requirements.
• Participants can record, monitor and provide evidence of their completed CPD activities conveniently through an online CPD portfolio.

CPD program requirements:

All participants need to complete the CPD plan at the beginning of their triennium, and an evaluation at the end. (Refer to the CPD handbook.)

Minimum credit requirements per triennium

• Practice evaluation - 100 credits. (Incident monitoring/reporting including webAIRS activities are eligible for 2 credits per hour in the practice evaluation category.)
• Knowledge and skills - 80 credits (Per triennium - 180 credits)
• Emergency management - 2 activities per triennium 

Registering a new site

This document guides a new user through the steps of first registering as an individual and secondly registering a new site. A site may be a hospital, private practice, day surgery or any other group of people who are collectively reporting incidents.

Martin Culwick and Susan Considine

Updates to the Incident Charts page for Local Administrators

The incident charts page has been updated for local administrators. This is similar to the incidents dashboard but allows the local adminitrator to drill down to the incident subcategories and from there also drill down to individual incidents. The charts can be copied with a screen shot tool or printed out to pdf from most of the latest browsers. These feature has been tested on Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Martin Culwick and Sarah Walker

Updates to the Review Incidents Page for local administrators

An update was released for the Review Incidents page on the 23rd November 2017. This page is only avaiable for local administrators and for individual practice. The new functions allow the incidents to be selected by date and also allows the incident to be edited by the local administrator. Whilst editing there is an extra button at the bottom of the page which allows the local administrator to return to the Review incidents page and the same incident is loaded back for checking. There are additional settings to show that the page has been reviewed at an M & M meeting, or that the page has been archived (without reviewing). The default is "Not reviewed" which is the setting when the incident is first entered.

M Culwick

Ethics information and resources

In order to register a new site you will need to consider the ethical implications, in particular whether the transfer of the information complies with the privacy act and that the secondary use of the information is lawful. In 2014 the NHMRC issued a document which clarified the requirements for quality assurance activities in Australia. To read more and display links to relevant documents; click on the link below

Martin Culwick and Sarah Walker

WebAIRS Information Sheet

webAIRS is the web-based anaesthetic incidentreporting system from the Australian and New Zealand Tripartite Anaesthetic Data Committee (ANZTADC). The mission of ANZTADC is to improve the safety and quality of anaesthesia for patients in Australia and New Zealand by providing an enduring capability to capture, analyse and disseminate information about (de-identified) incidents relative to the safety and quality of anaesthesia in Australia and New Zealand. webAIRS is owned and funded by three organisations: the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists (NZSA). To read more click on the link below

S.Walker and M.Culwick