Many thanks to our Members and Fellows who attended the College’s Extraordinary General Meeting on 10 February 2022.
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Professor William Harrop-Griffiths talks to Dawn Chamberlain and Dr Cian Wade about the RCoA report on lessons learnt from COVID-19
The Faculty updates us on what they're doing to tackle barriers to reporting of uncivilised behaviour and find solutions.
- Dr Jonathan Rajan, Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, Salford Royal NHS Trust
- Dr Katharine Ireland, Pain Medicine Trainee, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Victoria Winter, Pain Medicine Trainee, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Helen Makins, Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Multiple reports have highlighted the importance of workplace wellbeing. Institutions that prioritise workplace wellbeing perform better, with improved patient experience, higher staff satisfaction and lower rates of sickness absence.
38% of NHS staff in England reported suffering from work-related stress, and the 2023 GMC Survey showed the proportion of trainees at risk of burnout to be the highest since they started tracking this in 2018. The impact of a career in pain medicine on the wellbeing of a pain physician can be significant, including the emotional burden of treating patients in distress, and the additional impacts of training, career development and examinations. Access to wellbeing support can be further nuanced in smaller subspecialties, with fewer trainees, less potential jobs and a far smaller community of working clinical practice.
With this in mind the issue was raised at the FPM Board, and work began to identify barriers to the reporting of uncivilised behaviour, and to identify possible solutions.
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Biography of Dr Victor Ormsby McCormick
A Report of a Combined Working Party of the British Association for Paediatric Otolaryngology (BAPO), ENT UK, The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI)
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Biography of Dr Edgar Stanley Rowbotham
Recovery staff should have immediate access to the appropriate clinician in the perioperative period, e.g. anaesthetist, surgeon, radiologist. ...
Recovery staff should have immediate access to the appropriate clinician in the perioperative period, e.g. anaesthetist, surgeon, radiologist.
Patients presenting with a neurological deficit should have immediate referral to a specialist unit and be discussed with the neurosurgical or spinal surgeon. ...
Patients presenting with a neurological deficit should have immediate referral to a specialist unit and be discussed with the neurosurgical or spinal surgeon.
Chapter 18: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac and Thoracic Procedures 2021
There should be a forum for discussion of matters relevant to both surgeons and anaesthetists, for example protocol development and critical incidents.