Research led by the College around improvements in the care of over 24,000 patients before, during and after emergency bowel surgery.
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Dr Helgi Johannsson, RCoA Vice President, shares what LGBTQ+ History Month means to him.
NHS England has today released its first Long Term Workforce Plan. The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) recognises this as a very welcome and significant first step towards putting NHS staffing on a sustainable footing.
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This page provides guidance on how to use the LLP Milestones and Certificates section. It includes equivalence certificates for users moving from the 2010 to 2021 curriculum.
This article explores how to make the most of indirect supervision for both anaesthetists in training and trainers alike.
This article explores how to make the most of indirect supervision.
The 2021 curriculum was explicit about having ‘levels of supervision’ embedded within it. These are descriptors of the supervision level the anaesthetist in training (AiT) would require if they were to repeat the same Supervised Learning Event (SLE) immediately after.
This article looks at how anaesthetists in India and the UK are improving patient care using digital technology to achieve great results quickly and more efficiently.
Some are very familiar – a growing, aging population with increasing levels of chronic health problems and significant inequalities in care provision. Others are a factor of the Indian system which Ravi describes as ‘chaotic’.
A key issue underpinning that chaos is the distribution of physicians, 80% of whom practice in urban areas while 70% of the population live rural lives.
Ravi and colleagues are using cutting-edge digital technology to improve healthcare provision in India by introducing ‘comprehensive connected care’. This hub-and-spoke model uses digital connectivity to exchange data and information between centrally located expert clinicians and those caring for patients. For example staff in 5G-enabled ambulances transporting very sick people over long distances receive advice from critical care physicians who have all the patient’s clinical data at their fingertips.
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Process and guidance for external survey submissions to the RCoA
‘Snowflake’ is a term commonly wielded by our elders to bludgeon what they deem to be a fragile, over-sensitive and under-resilient youth of today. A people unable to cope with life. It does however require a certain amount of historical amnesia to use this slight without some irony catching in the throat. Did they not enjoy rock bottom housing prices, free higher education and high levels of job security, only to then preside over their decimation?
I recently listened to two anaesthetists talking in a coffee-shop queue. One was of a certain age and clearly exasperated at having to contemplate the supposed burnout levels in my generation of anaesthetists in training. He simply couldn’t understand it. After all, in his day they worked hundred hour weeks! ‘Bloody snowflakes’, he reflected. The other nodded gravely.
‘Snowflake’ is a term commonly wielded by our elders to bludgeon what they deem to be a fragile, over-sensitive and under-resilient youth of today. A people unable to cope with life. It does however require a certain amount of historical amnesia to use this slight without some irony catching in the throat. Did they not enjoy rock bottom housing prices, free higher education and high levels of job security, only to then preside over their decimation?
The College and the Association of Anaesthetists are aware of sterility concerns about Becton-Dickinson (BD) equipment.
The College and FICM respond to the Prime Minister's announcement of the roadmap out of lockdown.