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This study aimed to explore how care, support, and treatment can be improved for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who have experienced TBI caused by violence by drawing on the perspectives of ED staff in a regional hospital in Queensland (Australia). Using purposeful and snowballing sampling, 24 health professionals (including Indigenous hospital liaison officers and Aboriginal health workers and nursing, medical, and allied health staff) were recruited to participate in the study. Using reflexive thematic analysis, four key recommendations were identified: (1) development of a formalised pathway for head injury from family violence; (2) providing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with a timely acute-care-to-community pathway; (3) resourcing hospital- and community-based services for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children; and (4) strengthening responses from health professionals to violence and head injury. 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