Departments should support the anaesthetic workforce with adequate provision made for continuing professional development (CPD).
Trusts should commit themselves to provide the time and resources to educate those who provide intraoperative care for patients.155
Theatre teams should undergo regular, multidisciplinary training that promotes teamwork, with a focus on human factors, effective communication and openness.155
All staff should have access to adequate time, funding and facilities to undertake and update training that is relevant to their clinical practice, including annual mandatory training such as basic life support.168
All members of the anaesthetic team should receive non-clinical training and education, which should be reflected in job plans and job planning. This might include a locally arranged list of topics (e.g. fire safety, consent, infection control, blood product administration, mental capacity, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, communication skills). Some of this training will be mandatory under the legislation for...
All trainees must be appropriately clinically supervised at all times.6
All patients undergoing anaesthesia should be under the overall care of a consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist whose name is recorded as part of the anaesthetic record. 278
Departments of anaesthesia should ensure that a named supervisory consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist is available to all non-autonomously practising anaesthetists based on the training and experience of the individual doctor and the range and scope of their clinical practice.278 Where an anaesthetist is supervised by a consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist, they should be aware of their...
There should be induction programmes for all new members of staff, including locums. Induction for a locum doctor should include familiarisation with the layout of the hospital and the location of emergency equipment and drugs, access to guidelines and protocols, information on how to summon support/assistance, and assurance that the locum is capable of using the equipment in that hospital...
