As we previously announced BJA Education moves online from July 2022. The BJA itself moved to a digital format in January 2022 – BJA Education will follow suit but will also retain a printed version for RCoA members until July 2023.
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SAS Week is a week-long celebration of specialty, associate specialist and specialist (SAS) doctors which runs from 14-18 October. Our aim is to raise the profile of this rewarding career path and the essential role they play in the provision of anaesthetic services to patients.
Following consideration of a member survey on assisted dying/assisted suicide, Council has taken the decision to change the College’s position on assisted dying/assisted suicide from ‘no stance’ to ‘neutral’, on the basis that a neutral position more closely aligns with the views of a majority of respondents.
SAS Week is a week-long celebration of Staff Grade, Associate Specialist and Specialty (SAS) doctors which runs from 9-13 October. More than 1 in 5 of the non-trainee anaesthetic workforce are SAS doctors who play an essential role in the provision of anaesthetic services to patients.
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 pleased that the government has agreed to enter talks with the BMA to seek a resolution to the dispute over junior doctors’ pay. Junior doctors are under a great deal of pressure arising from profound NHS workforce shortages and other factors causing a steady erosion of morale and wellbeing, including pay.
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is delighted to announce that Dr Fiona Donald has been re-appointed after an unopposed call for nominations as the College’s President for a second year. The RCoA is further pleased to announce that Dr Russell Perkins has been re-elected for a second year as one of the College’s two Vice-Presidents, and will be joined by Dr Helgi Johannsson, who was newly elected after an open call for nominations from Elected Council Members.