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Chapter 1: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services: The Good Department 2025
Anaesthetic departments should have a method for capturing and reviewing patient outcome data and quality metrics for their clinical service including patient feedback and complaints.103 QI plans should be developed based on the review of such metrics and data.
Chapter 8: Guidelines for the Provision of Regional Anaesthesia Services 2025
Shared decision making based on patients’ preferences and informed discussions around risks and benefits are vital in regional anaesthesia practice. Information leaflets (or other forms of information such as online videos) describing benefits, risks and alternatives to regional anaesthesia may be provided at the time of preoperative assessment.
Planning and implementing one of the new special interest areas (SIAs) available from the 2021 curriculum: a trainee’s and trainer’s perspective.
This credentialing journey has been one long road, but 2024 will finally see us making further inroads.
When the General Medical Council recently approved the ‘Curriculum for the Credential for the Specialist in Pain Medicine’, we were delighted that six years of hard work has come to fruition.
To date, specialist training in pain medicine has largely only been open as part of the CCT training in anaesthesia or post-CCT for a small number of consultants who opted to pursue training.