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Read the latest letters submitted by members in April's Digital Bulletin.
Read the latest letters submitted by members in April's Digital Bulletin.
It's 2024! We spoke to several of our members to find out their hopes and aspirations for the new year.
This article introduces the Lifelong Learning Platform team and also looks into some of the wider support and governance around the LLP.
The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) continues to experience very high levels of use, with each month typically seeing more than 500,000 unique actions taking place among its user-base – which is approaching 24,500 – and the LLP team usually receives around 800 emails per month. This article introduces the team and also some of the wider support and governance around the LLP.
The LLP team is headed by Esma Doganguzel, Product Manager, and she is supported by Avia Spiers and Tunde Arowojolu, Product Owners, and Chris Kennedy, Revalidation and CPD Co-ordinator. The team blends strategic oversight, development, training, and regulatory expertise, and is committed to supporting and addressing the evolving needs of our users and to improving the LLP in innovative and progressive ways.
Welcome to this special edition of the Bulletin where we will showcase the work of some of the projects from the College’s Health Services Research Centre (HSRC). We will also hear from our patient and carer group, PCPIE, who have been crucial in ensuring projects have meaningful involvement from development and delivery through to reporting.
Welcome to this special issue of the Bulletin, where we will showcase the work of some of the projects from the College’s Health Services Research Centre (HSRC).
We will also hear from our patient and carer group, PCPIE, who have been crucial in ensuring projects have meaningful involvement from development and delivery through to reporting. We are grateful to them for their wise counsel and insightful challenges. HSRC projects could not run without the dedication and vision of their leads and of the project teams supporting them. This includes strong involvement from our HSRC fellows (who, while often in post for only a year, never really leave the team), and we are delighted to have just welcomed our next six fellows to NELA, PQIP, SNAP, and quality improvement projects.
Dr Fiona Donald, our President looks ahead to some of the College’s priorities for 2024 and highlights some of the work we're doing to try to address current issues.
I’d like to wish you all a very happy New Year. I realise that January is a very challenging time in the NHS, with winter pressures compounded by ongoing staff shortages and sickness. And in looking ahead to some of the College’s priorities for 2024, I’d like to highlight some of the work we're doing to try to address these issues.
The urgent need for more doctors to be able to train as anaesthetists is always the first thing I raise in conversations I have with the government, NHS England and other decision makers around the country. Last month I wrote to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to set out the need to address the current shortage of anaesthestists and to outline the impact this is having on the elective care backlog, among other things.
In the last year we have secured some incremental improvements on this front, but there is a long way to go, and we will do all we can to maintain momentum in the year ahead.
This article highlights the work of our Membership Engagement Team and gives some top tips to get the most from your membership.
If there is one thing we have learnt recently, it is to make sure we engage with you, our members. We need your valuable experience and views to shape the future of the College. You may remember that back in February we took a single proposal regarding governance of the College to an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), asking members to back a package of measures to change the governance of the College and bring us in line with the laws which govern us in our legal status as a charity. This proposal, while receiving the majority of votes, did not get the support of the two-thirds of attendees needed to pass it.
If there is one thing we have learnt recently, it is to make sure we engage with you, our members. We need your valuable experience and views to shape the future of the College.
How the College is run for patients, and on behalf of its members
You may remember that back in February we took a single proposal regarding governance of the College to an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), asking members to back a package of measures to change the governance of the College and bring us in line with the laws which govern us in our legal status as a charity.
This proposal, while receiving the majority of votes, did not get the support of the two-thirds of attendees needed to pass it. Listening to feedback after the event, we learnt that members had not felt sufficiently involved in the drawing-up of proposals and that including all the proposals in a single vote was complicated.
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.
We are in the midst of a climate emergency. With record-breaking heat waves and flooding over the last few years, the danger to our patients’ health is undeniable. Even the World Health Organization described climate change as ‘the single biggest health threat facing humanity’.
Authors:
- Dr Sangita Kindred, Anaesthetic Trainee, North Central School of Anaesthesia
- Dr Tim Jackson, Anaesthetic Trainee, North Central School of Anaesthesia
- Dr Kate Sherratt, Consultant Anaesthetist and North Central London Training Programme Director,
Royal Free Hospital
We are in the midst of a climate emergency. With record-breaking heat waves and flooding over the last few years, the danger to our patients’ health is undeniable. Even the World Health Organization described climate change as ‘the single biggest health threat facing humanity’.1 Therefore, we have a duty as healthcare practitioners to change our practice to protect our future patients. Even the GMC has changed its guidance on ‘Outcomes for Graduates’ to reflect this need.2
Anaesthetic gases make up more than 2 per cent of the NHS’s carbon footprint, and reduction in their use is central to the NHS long-term plan to reach carbon net zero by 2045.3 Desflurane is a particularly harmful greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential over 100 years (GWP100) which is 2,540 times greater than carbon dioxide.4