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Chapter 2 The extent of burn injuries in Australia

[1]       World Health Organisation (WHO), Facts about injuries: Burns, accessed from http://www.ameriburn.org/WHO-ISBIBurnFactsheet.pdf on 19 February 2010.

[2]       National Geographic, Skin, accessed from http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/skin-article.html on 19 February 2010.

[3]       Better Health Channel, Fact sheet: Burns, accessed from http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Burns on 19 February 2010.

[4]       Submission No. 1, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), p 3.

[5]       Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA), Criteria for specialised burns treatment, accessed from http://www.anzba.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=58 on 22 February 2010.

[6]       Submission No. 1, DoHA, p 5.

[7]       A hospital separation is an episode of care for an admitted patient, which can be a total hospital stay (from admission to discharge, transfer or death), or a portion of a hospital stay beginning or ending in a change of type of care (for example, from acute to rehabilitation). Admitted patients who receive same day procedures (for example, renal dialysis) are included in separation statistics. Source: Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, Report on Government Services 2010, Productivity Commission, p 10.3.

[8]       Singer, A., DoHA, Transcript, p 3.

[9]       Submission No. 1, DoHA, p 5.

[10]     Julian Burton Burns Trust, Submission 2.1, p 1.

[11]     Towers, K., Burns South Australia Aboriginal Burns Program, Transcript, p 11.

[12]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 11.

[13]     Petrys, D., Council on the Ageing (COTA), Transcript, p 6.

[14]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 9.

[15]     MBS number 30003: LOCALISED BURNS, dressing of, (not involving grafting) each attendance at which the procedure is performed, including any associated consultation, accessed from http://www9.health.gov.au//mbs/search.cfm?q=30003&sopt=I on 07 July 2010.

[16]     Supplementary Submission No 1.1, DoHA.

[17]     Singer, A., DoHA, Transcript, p 38.

[18]     Submission No. 1, DoHA, p 2.

[19]     Submission No. 1, DoHA, pp 3-4.

[20]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 6.

[21]     Singer, A., DoHA, Transcript, p 4.

[22]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 6.

[23]     Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 17.

[24]     Scroggie, T., Private capacity, Transcript, p 18.

[25]     Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 19 and McCartney, N., KIDS Foundation, Transcript, p 21.

[26]     Burtons, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, pp 17-18.

[27]     Scroggie, T., Private capacity, Transcript, p 8.

[28]     Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Trancript, p 8.

[29]     Griffith, W., Private capacity, Transcript, p 8.

[30]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 9.

Chapter 3 Can we improve?

[1]       Accessed from http://www.nphp.gov.au/publications/sipp/nipspp.pdf on 7 July 2010.

[2]       Strategic Injury Prevention Partnership, National Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Plan, 2005, p iii.

[3]       Supplementary Submission 1.3, Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA).

[4]       WHO plan for burn prevention and care, accessed from http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/13_03_2008/en/index.html on 7 July 2010.

[5]       AUSBURNPLAN, accessed from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-emergency-ausburn-cnt.htm on 9 July 2010.

[6]       WHO plan for burn prevention and care, p 11, accessed from http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/13_03_2008/en/index.html on 07 July 2010.

[7]       Petrys, D., Council on the Ageing (COTA), Transcript, p 6.

[8]       Cameron, P., Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA), Transcript, p 7.

[9]       Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 17.

[10]     Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 17.

[11]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 29.

[12]     Buza, Y., Stakeholder, Burns South Australia Aboriginal Burns Program, Transcript, p 29.

[13]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 42.

[14]     Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 37.

[15]     Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 38.

[16]     Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW), 2010, Creating Nationally Consistent Health Information: engaging with the national health information committees, Data linkages series no. 8. Cat. No. CSI. 8, Canberra, p 1.

[17]     AIHW, 2010, Creating Nationally Consistent Health Information: engaging with the national health information committees, Data linkages series no. 8. Cat. No. CSI. 8, Canberra, p 1.

[18]     See www.nehta.gove.au and www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/national+Ehealth+strategy.

[19]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 37.

[20]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 12.

[21]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 38.

[22]     Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 29.

[23]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 48.

[24]     Cameron, P., ANZBA, Transcript, p 10.

[25]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 27.

[26]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, pp 38-39.

[27]     Buza, Y., Stakeholder, Burns South Australia Aboriginal Burns Prevention Program, Transcript, p 42.

[28]     Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 37.

[29]     Submission No. 3, ANZBA Burn Prevention Committee, p 3.

[30]     Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, pp 31-32.

[31]     O’Neill, S., KIDS Foundation, Transcript, p 35.

[32]     Submission No. 2, NSW Severe Burn Injury Service, pp 5-7.

[33]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 15.

[34]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 14. See also Submission No. 3, ANZBA Burn Prevention Committee, p 5.

[35]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 14.

[36]     Petrys, D., COTA, Transcript, p 33.

[37]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 33.

[38]     See Trade Practices (Consumer Products Safety Standard) (Reduced Fire Risk Cigarettes) Regulations 2006, SLI 2000 No. 195.

[39]     For details please see: Submission No. 2, New South Wales Statewide Burn Injury Service (NSW SBIS) and Submission No. 3, ANBA Burn Prevention Committee.

[40]     Griffith, W., Private capacity, Transcript, p 16; Scroggie, T., Private Capacity, Transcript, p 18; Burton, J., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 20.

[41]     van Gerwen, S., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 12; Griffith, W., Private capacity Transcript, p 16; and Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 26.

[42]     Griffith, W., Private capacity, Transcript, p 16.

[43]     Maitz, P., Julian Burton Burns Trust, Transcript, p 15.

[44]     Towers, K., Burns South Australia Aboriginal Burns Program, Transcript, p 19.

[45]     Scroggie, T., Private capacity, Transcript, p 15.

[46]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 25.

[47]     Dunn, K., KIDS Foundation, Transcript, p 19.

[48]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 25.

[49]     McCartney, N., KIDS Foundation, Transcript, p 21.

[50]     Kavanagh, S., ANZBA, Transcript, p 25.

[51]     DoHA media release, accessed from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/budget/publishing.nsf/Content/budget2008-hmedia009.htm on 13 July 2010

[52]     Van Gerwen, S., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 28.

[53]     Kimble, R., St John Ambulance Australia, Transcript, p 28.

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