A patient-centred
solution to a national crisis
Join us in transforming the response to family and sexual violence through innovative clinical forensic medicine services.
Our Services - Empowering Victim-Survivors
At the Australian Clinical Forensic Medicine Alliance, we believe in prompt, quality and compassionate care in the aftermath of violence. Our current systems are falling short - and drastically so.
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We wouldn't tolerate a heart attack victim waiting for days to receive gold standard care - even from a remote location expert advice can be accessed remotely by frontline health care providers - so why should that be any different for a victim of a violent assault, where the effects of trauma can have such a profound impact on the individual's life?
We have developed a novel approach to making clinical forensic medicine expertise accessible to all, leveraging existing systems via purpose designed software in an evidence-based manner to dramatically increase service delivery capacity.
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SAFE-CHOICE
Sexual Assault & Forensic Examination - Collaborative Hybrid Oversight in Clinical Encounters
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Introducing SAFE-CHOICE - a secure specialised platform - designed by clinical forensic specialists, enabling a contemporaneous hybrid collaborative encounter between a frontline practitioner (local to the patient) and a remotely supervising forensic expert, with counsellor advocate continuity and support.
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This enables hybrid collaborative consultations, a trained clinical forensic medicine practitioner supervises the conduct of a forensic medical examination by any frontline healthcare professional remotely. This collaboration is supported by real-time video , messaging, and data-sharing capabilities, all embedded within the software. Responsibility for the carriage of the case, the medico-legal report and dowsntream evidentiary burden through the criminal justice system is assumed by the expert. Counsellng and advocacy with continuity is also built in from inception of the encounter.
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This approach enables greater access to justice for victims from specific cultural / gender diverse backgrounds, with increased agency over examination options, less delays, less travel and reporting / justice pathways that do not involve police. So victim-survivors can focus on their other pressing needs.