We, the trustees of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, are responsible for directing and controlling College activities to deliver its objects as detailed in our Royal Charter.
Dr Amy Hobbs with Dr Gemma Phillips write about their experiences as part of the College working group which developed a ‘Returning to Work in Anaesthesia’ online course.
Effective workforce planning and investment, staff wellbeing, and increased critical care capacity are some of the vital lessons to take from the pandemic.
The College’s Education, Training and Examinations Board has recently agreed to continue with an online delivery format for all sittings of the SOE and OSCE exams until the end of April 2022.
At the start of the COVID pandemic, Dr Alister Seaton was an ST6 completing his higher training at King’s College Hospital, a large teaching hospital in South-East London.
The ‘Surgical activity in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic' study confirms the impact of the pandemic on millions of patients awaiting surgery, with these figures only likely to grow.