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NHS Blood and Transport (NHSBT) has advised that its red cell and group A platelet stock levels are low and in a pre-amber alert status for both. It has asked all hospitals to conserve stock from 16 to 30 January 2023 to help prevent going into an amber or red alert.
We are committed to improving the calibre of our examinations, ensuring that they are delivered in line with best practice in assessment for each medical specialty. As part of that commitment, we undertake regular internal reviews of the FRCA examination, the most recent of which we have published today.  
While matters relating to terms and conditions of service are not within the remit of individual medical royal colleges or faculties, we recognise the right of doctors and other healthcare professionals to take industrial action, and we understand why many may wish to do so.
We welcome the King's Fund report on strategies to reduce waiting times for elective care, which presents findings of research to understand strategies that have been used to reduce waiting times in England and elsewhere in the past 20 years.
The following is an update on joint clinical guidance from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists, the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.