Anaesthesia 2023
Anaesthesia 2023 flagship conference will take place in Birmingham in May 2023 for three days of what promises to be a bigger, better, must-attend event for the specialty. There is also an option for those that prefer to join us online.
Anaesthesia 2023 flagship conference will take place in Birmingham and online in May 2023 for three days of what promises, to be a bigger, must-attend event for the specialty. Now in its fifth year Anaesthesia 2023 promises to be another outstanding year.
With a packed programme, covering a diverse range of subjects, this conference is suitable for anaesthetists from all backgrounds and at all stages of their careers. Anaesthesia 2023 will offer the chance to learn from experts and network with your peers.
What you can expect:
- Stay informed with lectures on best practice and future developments
- Get up-to-date via quick-fire specialist updates for generalists
- Tailor your day with breakout sessions
- Have your say using our interactive Q&A platform
- Industry exhibition
- Fulfil your professional CPD requirements (15 points awarded)
This programme is still in development and is subject to change
Day 1: Tuesday 16 May | ||
08.30-09.30 | Registration and refreshments | |
09.30-09.35 | Welcome and introduction |
Dr Fiona Donald, President, RCoA |
09.35-10.05 | Keynote lecture: The Importance of Legacy | Claire Terry, Legacy Plan and Legacy Charity Lead, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games |
Session 1: Quick fire clinical updates |
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10.05-10.25 | Safe transfers | Dr Arndt Melzer, Consultant anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
10.25-10.45 | Procedural sedation | Dr Dave Green, Consultant anaesthetist, Independent Health Sector |
10.45-11.05 | HIV management and treatment | Dr Amy Pearce, GUM Consultant, Salisbury District Hospital |
11.05-11.25 | Implementing early screening and optimisation for major surgery |
Professor Ramani Moonesinghe, National Clinical Director for critical and perioperative care, NHS England |
11.25-11.45 | Laboratory grown red blood cells, RESTORE TEAM | Professor Ashley Toye, Professor of Cell Biology, University of Bristol |
11.45-12.00 | Q&A | |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch and networking | |
Session 2: Obstetrics Chair - Dr Felicity Plaat, Council member, RCoA |
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13.00-13.25 | Maternal medicine | Dr Ellen Knox Consultant Obstetrician/Maternal Medicine. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS FT |
13.25-13.50 | Ethnic disparities in Obstetric anaesthesia outcomes | Dr Seema Quasim, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire |
13.50-14.15 | Keynote lecture: A year on from Ockenden, where are we now? | Donna Ockenden, Chair of Independent Review |
14.15-14.35 | Patient voice | Bill Kirkup |
14.35-14.50 | Q&A | |
14.50-15.15 | Refreshment break | |
Session 3: Well doctors = safe patients Chair - Dr Toni Brunning, Clinical Content Lead, Anaesthesia 2023 and Council Member, RCoA |
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15.15-15.40 | Incorporating lifestyle medicine into clinical practice | Dr Rob Lawson, Co-Founder, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine |
15.40-16.05 | Fatigue and the ageing anaesthetist | Dr Emma Plunkett, Consultant anaesthetists, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust |
16.05-16.15 | Q&A | |
16.15-16.40 | International Academy of Colleges | TBC |
16.40-16.45 | Close |
Day 2: Wednesday 17 May | ||
08.30-09.00 | Registration and refreshments | |
09.00-09.05 | Opening remarks | Dr Toni Brunning, Clinical Content Lead, Anaesthesia 2023 and Council Member, RCoA |
09.05-09.35 | Keynote lecture: Lessons from conflict - let’s not forget | Colonel James Ralph, Consultant Anaesthetist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Defence Consultant Advisor in Anaesthesia |
Session 4: Human Factors |
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09.35-09.45 | #CallMe | Dr Mike McCabe, Consultant Anaesthetist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust |
09.45-10.00 |
Human Factors Guidelines
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Dr Fiona Kelly, Consultant anaesthesia/ICU at Royal United Hospital, Bath |
10.00-10.40 |
Panel discussion: Human Factors training
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Dr Fiona Kelly, Consultant anaesthesia/ICU at Royal United Hospital, Bath
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10.40-11.00 | Refreshment break | |
Session 5: Royal Centre for Defence Medicine |
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11.00-11.25 | Major incident planning and triage of casualties | Dr Damian Keene, Military Consultant Anaesthetist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
11.25-11.50 | Use of whole blood transfusion during massive transfusion. | Colonel Tom Woolley, Defence Professor of Military Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
11.50-12.15 | Biological Chemical Nuclear and Radiological agents |
Dr Andrew Johnstone, Military Intensive Care Consultant, Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
12.15-12.30 | Q&A | |
12.35-13.30 | Lunch | |
13.30-14.15 | Breakout session |
Choice to attend 1st breakout session Attendees to choose to attend out of the breakout sessions below, each workshop will be repeated twice |
Breakout A | Digital advances in preoperative assessment Chair: Pauline Elliott, Chair, PatientsVoices@RCoA Sophie Randall, Director, Patient Information Forum |
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Breakout B |
Regional masterclass, joint with RAUK |
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Breakout C | Airway masterclass, joint with DAS Dr Gunjeet Dua, Consultant Anaesthetist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust |
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Breakout D | Echo Scenarios (In person only) Dr Mathew Patteril, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire |
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Breakout E |
Vascular masterclass: Guide to Carotids and Ruptured AAAs for the non-vascular anaesthetist |
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Breakout F | TIVA masterclass, joint with SIVA Dr Rohit Juneja, President, SIVA |
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14.15-14.20 | Travel to second breakout session | |
14.20-15.05 | Breakout session | Choice to attend 2nd breakout session from list above |
15.05-15.30 | Refreshments | |
Session 5: British Journal of Anaesthesia - Does Anaesthesia Care Impact Major Outcomes? |
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15.30-15.55 |
Perioperative Hypotension on Perioperative Outcomes |
Denise P Veelo, Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC), Amsterdam |
15.55-16.20 |
Spinal versus General Anaesthesia for Hip Fracture Surgery |
Joyce Yeung, University of Warwick |
16.20-16.30 | Q&A | |
16.30-17.00 |
Keynote Lecture: BJA inaugural William Mapleson Lecture Perioperative oxygenation – what’s the stress? |
Dr Andrew Cumpstey, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthetics & Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Southampton and University of Southampton |
17.00-17.05 | Close | |
17.05-17.45 | Drinks reception and networking |
Day 3: Thursday 18 May | ||
08.30-09.00 | Registrations and refreshments | |
09.00-09.05 | Opening remarks | Dr Claire Mallinson, Clinical Content Lead, Anaesthesia 2023 and Council Member, RCoA |
09.05-09.35 | Keynote Lecture: Moral Injury and recovery | Dr Joanna Poole, ST7 anaesthetist in the Severn deanery |
Session 8: Paediatrics |
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09.35-09.55 | Language, nocebo and hypnocommunication | Dr Allan Cyna, Consultant Anaesthetist, Adelaide Australia |
09.55-10.15 | Paediatric preassessment guidelines | Dr Simon Courtman, Consultant Anaesthetist (incoming President APAGBI) |
10.15-10.20 |
The Beano “Dennis has a tonsillectomy’ announcement |
Dr Samantha Black |
10.20-10.25 | Q&A | |
10.25-10.50 | Refreshment break | |
Session 9: RCoA Research and QI |
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10.50-11.15 | New PQIP Report Launch | Professor Ramani Moonesinghe, National Clinical Director for critical and perioperative care, NHS England |
11.15-11.40 | NELA: Who not to anaesthetise for emergency laparotomy - concepts of futility and the non-operative denominator | Dr Sarah Hare & Dr Ee-Neng Loh |
11.40-12.05 | RCoA QI and Research strategy | Dr Joyce Yeung & Prof Iain Moppett |
12.05-12.20 | Q&A | |
12.20-13.00 | Poster competition | Top shortlisted entries |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch and networking | |
Session 10: Sustainability and workforce |
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14.00-14.25 | Pipeline Nitrous Oxide, waste reduction and recycling in theatres | Dr Paul Southall, Consultant Anaesthetist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
14.25-14.50 | Recruiting, developing and retaining doctors: What does the data tell us? | Professor Tom Gale, Professor of Medical Education, University of Plymouth |
14.50-15.15 | Anaesthesia Associates | Dr Hamish Mclure and Dr Natalie Drury, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
15.15-15.30 | Q&A | |
Session 11: Hit lists Chair - Professor William Harrop-Griffiths, Consultant Anaesthetist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |
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15.30-16.10 | Sharing innovative ideas on solving the backlog |
Professor Mike Grocott |
16.10-16.15 | Closing remarks |
Pricing
Members and Fellows of RCoA | Non Members | ||||
Member/Fellow | Anaesthetist in Training/ MTI Doctor | Senior Fellows and members Club | Student/ Foundation Doctor | ||
Online | |||||
One day | £160 | £120 | £80 | £40 | £245 |
Two days | £320 | £240 | £160 | £80 | £470 |
All days | £395 | £300 | £200 | £100 | £580 |
In person attendance - Birmingham | |||||
One day | £225 | £170 | £115 | £60 | £345 |
Two days | £450 | £340 | £225 | £115 | £670 |
All days | £560 | £420 | £280 | £140 | £825 |
We are offering a fee for Low Middle Income Countries for online attendance, the cost will be £15 per day. Please email events@rcoa.ac.uk to check your eligibility.
Sponsors
Sponsors and exhibitors at our events purely support the commercial aspects of the event and join us for the benefit of our members, fellows and delegates. Our sponsors do not have input into the design of the programme or the content of any presentations, slides, workshops or talks.
If you are interested in sponsoring our event, please contact our sponsorship and exhibition partner Century One:
Jonny Knight at jonathan@centuryone.uk or 01727 739 193
Poster competition
Theme
You are invited to submit a poster for presentation at Anaesthesia 2023, on 16-18 May.
This year we are expanding the poster competition and inviting submissions on innovation and workplace solutions as well as PQIP quality improvement and research category. If you have worked on a project which falls into any of these categories, please submit a poster for a chance to showcase your work and to win a £250 voucher of your choice.
1) A quality improvement or research project using PQIP data and/or that addresses one of PQIP’s top five priorities from the previous and current cohorts. (2019/20 and 2021/22):
• Individualised risk assessment
• DrEaMing and enhanced recovery
• Communication and multidisciplinary working
• Individualised pain Management
• Using data for improvement
2) A project which focuses on innovation in perioperative care services, pathways or ways of working, to support elective recovery and/or patient and/or staff experience and wellbeing
We are particularly keen to see entries which are describing an evaluation of a new or adapted innovation (e.g. a pathway, service, way of working or other innovation) in addition to describing what the innovation is. Evaluations could be qualitative (feedback from staff or patients for example), quantitative (numerical data on processes or outcomes) or both.
Eligibility
The competition is open to all healthcare professionals or student healthcare professionals.
Prize
1st prize: £250 voucher
All accepted posters will be invited to present their poster at the Conference with the top 5 invited to present as an oral presentation.
All accepted posters will also be published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia Open Access Journal, please see the application form for information on submitting your abstract to them.
How to enter
- Submit a digital copy of your poster as an attachment to events@rcoa.ac.uk along with a signed copy of the form below.
- Please follow the poster preparation guidelines on page 2; failure to follow the guidelines could result in disqualification from the competition.
- Please follow abstract preparation guidelines on page 3 for the submission to the BJA Open Access Journal.
Download the application form here
What happens next?
- The closing date for entries will be 23.59 Monday 20 March 2023.
- A panel of RCoA judges will assess all submissions shortly after the closing date. Authors will be notified by Monday 17 April if they have been invited to display their poster at Anaesthesia 2023.
- All accepted posters will be invited to showcase their poster on the virtual platform.
- The selected winner will be given a slot to present their poster during the live programme.
- Authors selected to present their poster will need to book a place at the event in order to display their poster.