Duncan McMillan, our Head of Content tells us about the recent Welcome to Anaesthesia, a half-day webinar designed to help new anaesthetists in training settle into their work.
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This article looks at this year's first six months of CPD. It also includes the importance of regular reflection on the standards of practice and care.
The first six months have been extremely busy in the world of CPD at the College. At the end of May, the Lifelong Learning Platform featured more than 156,000 individual CPD activities which had been added and reflected upon.
Good Medical Practice talks about the importance of regular reflection on the standards of practice and care which are provided, and this will help a doctor assess whether their learning is adding value to the care of their patients and improving the services in which they work.
Jono Brüün, RCoA Chief Executive Officer, looks at how the College is moving forward at pace as we work to implement improvements to our member services and benefits.
The College is moving forward at pace as we work to implement improvements to our member services and benefits. On the staff team we are all too aware of the challenges you are facing at work, and our goal is to meet your professional needs and to support you in delivering safe and effective patient-centred care.
In her President’s View, Dr Fiona Donald outlines our programme of development for exams, including how we will give anaesthetists in training a greater role in our assessment processes. This has been a major priority for us over the last 18 months as we have sought to investigate how we can make improvements across all aspects of our exams. To help us deliver these improvements we are increasing capacity within our exams team. This additional expertise will enable careful implementation of longer-term changes alongside the regular face-to-face and online delivery of our exams.
We chat with our new President, Dr Claire Shannon to find out more about who she is and what she thinks about several hot topics.
My first President’s View features edited highlights from a podcast I recorded with fellow Council Member and Bulletin Editor Dr Ramai Santhirapala. We discussed several topics including questions submitted by our membership engagement panel.
You can listen to the full conversation on our Anaesthesia on Air podcast. I also recommend that you take a moment to watch or read the CEO update, in which Jono Brüün provides an update on recent decisions about Churchill House and finding a new home for the College.
This article looks at an innovative approach to improve the understanding and implementation of perioperative opioid stewardship and transform practice.
- Dr Dermot McGuckin, ST7 Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, University College London Hospitals
Email Dr McGuckin - Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, University College London Hospitals
- Dr Jamie Smart, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management, University College London Hospitals
- Dr Brigitta Brandner, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management, University College London Hospitals
Opioids play an important role in facilitating recovery and return to function after surgery.
However, it is now well-established that surgery is a risk factor for persistent postoperative opioid use,1 and preoperative opioid use is associated with an increased risk of perioperative complications.2
Perioperative opioid stewardship is a practical approach providing a systemic, multi-layered framework aimed at minimising the risks associated with opioid use around the time of surgery, while allowing their safe administration to those patients most likely to benefit from them. It is increasingly regarded as a solution to the problem of prescription opioid-related harm but there is a lack of structured curricula to develop healthcare professionals’ skills in competent opioid management.
Dr Fiona Donald tells us her professional highlights so far this year have been the conversations she's had with many of you across the country; helping her understand what you want from your membership and your views on key issues.
This article provides an update on all the great work done to improve the reliability, performance and general user experience of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP).
Maintaining and improving the LLP
Since its launch in August 2018, the College has committed to improving the reliability, performance and general user experience of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) for our members. With the inclusion of three new curricula and of ICM users in late 2021, it became apparent that the added level of complexity and the need to support more users required additional funding, so a sizeable new budget was approved by the College’s Finance and Resources Board in August 2022.
This additional funding has allowed us to resolve many historic issues, keep the infrastructure and related systems up to date, as well as making significant improvements where needed. We still have a great deal of work to do, but as you will see below, we have already achieved a lot over the last year and have a clear plan of where we are heading in the coming months.
Member service is the focus of the first year of our Five-Year Commitment. We want to provide the right services to you at all stages of your career and deliver a programme of improvement so that your experience of the College is the best it can be.
Pursuing excellence in our services for members
Member service is the focus of the first year of our Five-Year Commitment. We want to provide the right services to you at all stages of your career and deliver a programme of improvement so that your experience of the College is the best it can be.
I fully appreciate that there are some areas where we need to do better – you have told us where we need to improve, and we have been listening, acting and improving wherever we can. Our response time is one example. We have made it a priority to respond to your enquiries in a more timely way and to reduce the number of outstanding emails, particularly those relating to training.
This article updates on all the latest from PQUIP in what has proved another busy year for the project team.
Authors: Dr Eleanor Warwick, Dr Rachael Brooks and Dr Michael Argent, HSRC/PQIP Fellows
It has been another busy year for PQIP, and the project team are immensely grateful both to our participating sites and collaborators for their tireless efforts in data collection and investing in quality improvement, and to our patients who consent to be part of this study.
PQIP has more than 50,000 patients recruited and this is entirely thanks to your efforts!
Here is the latest data from the CPD event-accreditation scheme. During 2022 we received more than 900 applications for CPD event accreditation. Around two-thirds of these gained the accreditation applied for without condition, although for the remainder this approval only became available when further information or clarification was provided.
We would like to use this Bulletin issue to present some data on the College’s CPD event-accreditation scheme over the previous 12 months.
Applications continue to be welcome from regional bodies and specialist societies and associations. Accredited events appear on the College website and in the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) – if you have attended an event aimed at a regional or national audience please always first check in the LLP if it has been approved. You will then be able to save duplication of effort by associating the event to your newly created CPD activity.