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Preparing for surgery: cystoscopy
A cystoscopy is a procedure in which a thin telescope (called a cystoscope) is used to look inside your bladder. This is inserted through the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
This leaflet provides information for patients who are preparing for surgery.

Quality Improvement Working Group update

The group updates us on their work to strengthen the Quality Network (QN), plan projects and events to promote QI development, and engage members.

Part of the Quality Improvement Working Group’s (QIWG) role is to deliver the College’s Quality Improvement (QI) strategy. To accomplish this, we have been working to strengthen the Quality Network (QN), plan projects and events to promote QI development, and consider how best to engage members.

Context

After previously focusing on the QI compendium1 and facilitating resource sharing during the COVID pandemic, this year the QIWG has worked to assess and strengthen the QN. Our ‘Prep, Stop, Block’ project was part of this strategy, a summary of which was included in July’s Bulletin,2 with the full report available on the our website.

Careers, Recruitment & Workforce Committee

The FICM’s Careers, Recruitment and Workforce Committee has been seeking as much data as possible regarding the staffing of ICUs in the UK.

Critical staffing matters

Providing safe critical care services is core business for acute hospitals; this is ever more challenging when faced with burgeoning elective surgical pathways, an ageing and more co-morbid population, and new treatment modalities. Maintaining an appropriately trained, motivated workforce is key to this.

The FICM’s Careers, Recruitment and Workforce Committee (CRW) has been seeking as much data as possible regarding the staffing of ICUs in the UK. The FICM conducted its annual census, of clinical leads, in 2022. We publish some of the analysis in FICM’s Critical Eye publication. The 2023 census will look to strengthen our understanding of the issue all ICUs are faced with. The Scottish Critical Care Delivery Group’s detailed census resulted in the Scottish government supporting 16 newly funded intensive care medicine specialty training posts for 2023.

Dennis has an anaesthetic

Dennis has an anaesthetic is an online Beano comic strip, developed by the RCoA in partnership with the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Having surgery can be a worrying time for both children and parents and the comic strip aims to add an element of fun and play, while helping children understand what it’s like to have a general anaesthetic and how they can prepare for an operation.

Dennis has an anaesthetic is an online Beano comic strip, developed by the RCoA in partnership with the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.