National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre

The National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre is a key element of the Australian Government’s disaster and emergency medical response to incidents of national and international significance. In 2005 the Australian Government funded the establishment of the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) following the Bali 1 and 2 Responses. Training and education are key priorities for the NCCTRC, - offering more than 1300 places annually - with significant investment to ensure trauma and disaster training for all clinicians across the NT and Australia. It strives to enhance preparedness through teaching, training and practice, while providing ready response teams equipped to rescue and resuscitate victims of various disaster events, and then as appropriate repatriate them to other centres across Australia. The National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre has the ability to rapidly deploy skilled and trained clinical personnel and this is being enhanced with the development of interstate working partnerships. The National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre has responded to incidents in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 and 2010. These have been respectively the second Bali Bombing, East Timor Unrest, East Timor Presidential assassination attempt, the Ashmore Reef Siev 36 incident and the Pakistan floods. In 2011, the NCCTRC deployed a medical team to provide support for the annual Tour de Timor.