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The College gives an update on conversations it has been having with the Anaesthetics National Recruitment Office (ANRO) and Health Education England (HEE), which manages ANRO, following ANRO’s handling of recruitment information for ST3 anaesthetic training posts.
Ahead of COP26 the College is calling on hospitals and anaesthetic departments to increase their efforts to reduce the use of environmentally-damaging anaesthetic gases and switch to more sustainable options in the fight to combat the climate emergency.
The Government’s new funding to tackle NHS waiting lists is welcome but, unless some of the money is used to build the anaesthetic workforce, it will be near impossible to clear the backlog.
Following the government announcement that it will be investing £5.9 billion to tackle the elective care backlog. The College is warning that attempts to expand capacity will ultimately fail without the workforce to deliver on this.
Today the Royal College of Anaesthetists is pleased to announce the launch of a new ACCS website. The website has been created to support understanding, implementing, and working with the recently redeveloped ACCS training programme.