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All areas, including emergency departments, admitting acutely ill patients should have early warning pathways.45 Acutely ill or deteriorating emergency surgical patients on a general surgical ward require prompt recognition and definitive care. So earl...
All areas, including emergency departments, admitting acutely ill patients should have early warning pathways.45 Acutely ill or deteriorating emergency surgical patients on a general surgical ward require prompt recognition and definitive care. So early warning pathways should be established that automatically trigger an appropriate response, this should include policies for early medical review and early escalation to the responsible...
Chapter 5: Guidelines for the Provision of Emergency Anaesthesia Services 2025
Agreed local clinical guidelines should be in use, produced by an appropriately constituted multiprofessional team, comprising anaesthetists, specialist nurses, surgeons, critical care clinicians, pharmacists, specialty consultants and managers. These guidelines should cover at least the following:
This first report, an assessment of the scientific basis of climate change and its impacts and future risks, highlighted the importance of climate change as a global challenge with universal consequences which required international collaboration, cooperation and action.
Unfortunately, all these years later we haven’t made as much progress as we should have done across the world. The latest (2023) Lancet Countdown Report 'underscores the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. Climate inaction is costing lives and livelihoods today, with new global projections revealing the grave and mounting threat to health of further delayed action on climate change’. How can we take action? What can we do? You can all achieve so much more than you believe, and we would like to guide, support and empower you to do so.
It's time for us to take action together.
Dr Claire Shannon, President outlines what's coming up in 2025 and why it's important to support each other and work as part of a great team.
Happy New Year to you all. I know many of you will have been working over the festive period, but I hope you also had some time to catch up with friends and family and take a well-earned break.
Winter is never an easy time in the NHS. During the more challenging times of the year, I’m always particularly grateful for the support of my colleagues and the benefits of working as part of a great team. I hope that’s true for you too as we look to the year ahead.