Since its launch in August 2018, the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) has undergone an unprecedented amount of change. As well as adding the new Anaesthetic and ACCS 2021 curricula in August 2021, it also supports CPD Learners for Revalidation and FICM users, and automatically updates member details via our Customer Relationship Management system.
The platform continues to receive extremely high levels of use, supporting the career lifecycle of more than 24,000 fellows and members in the UK. Currently more than 21,000 of these have used the LLP for assessments and documenting their training in general. In a typical month there will be more than 400,000 LLP user interactions, including 100,000 Logbook entries and the addition of 45,000 Workplace Based Assessments or Supervised Learning Events.
December 2022 saw the final conversion of the initial dataset into a web-based survey tool. Further testing followed, which was exciting and challenging in equal measure. We are very grateful to our beta-testers who tested the questionnaire to destruction to ensure its future functionality.
Their feedback has been fundamental to the next steps in the project, even though their key finding was that the questionnaire was too long. The length of the form was originally dictated by airway experts from around the world with the aim of developing a set of questions they believed would capture all relevant data around an eFONA episode. To reduce its length, a ‘Delphi’ exercise is underway which will identify and agree on the fundamental questions to be answered when reporting an eFONA event.
All patients undergoing procedural sedation should have oxygen saturation monitoring from the administration of sedation to discharge from recovery. Supplemental oxygen should be available and used, as necessary.54
