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.
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.
SAFE-CHOICE
Sexual Assault & Forensic Examination - Collaborative Hybrid Oversight in Clinical Encounters
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.
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.
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.