• To foster and maintain the collaborative relationships which were initially established between all the relevant stakeholders in Australia and New Zealand who have an interest in developing a bi-national trauma registry.
• To continue to collect, collate, and disseminate bi-national aggregate data on injury patients with a defined severity score until such time that the NTRC has access to de-identified patient level data (to enable more complex data analysis).
• To pursue access to de-identified patient-level data through the relevant governmental health legislation and ethics approval bodies, as well as to gain the support of the existing state-based and individual hospital-based trauma registries for this process.
• To develop a bi-national minimum data set and data dictionary to form the basis of the data collection process for a formal bi-national trauma registry.
• To secure long-term funding for the formal bi-national trauma registry.
• To continue to publicise the concept of a bi-national trauma registry in Australia and New Zealand through publications and presentations.
• To establish a bi-national benchmarking system with which existing registries and individual institutions can compare their injury management.
• To encourage and facilitate collaborative research on the management of injured patients.