The Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme’s second annual report has been released.
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At the end of January 2024 we reached a positive milestone in our search to find a new home for the College and Faculties that is fit for the future, our members and our specialties.
Chapter 6: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Day Surgery 2025
Results from investigations should be available via the electronic patient record or via an appropriate IT system.16
Chapter 16: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 2025
Elective orthopaedic operating lists should be separated from trauma lists, to allow efficiency, ensure safety, prevent cancellations and enable a flexible response for emergencies.
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2025
For planned procedures, if there is doubt about parental responsibility, advice should be sought from senior hospital medicolegal advisers and/or defence organisations.
Chapter 2: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for the Perioperative Care of Elective and Urgent Care Patients 2025
The preassessment clinic should be predominantly led by suitably trained nurses or other extended role practitioners using agreed protocols and with support from an anaesthetist.
Dr Cynthia D'Souza reflects on her journey as an SAS doctor and how she's become an examiner.
I have recently been appointed as an Examiner for the Royal College of Anaesthetists FRCA examination. It was a moment of great pride and achievement for me, but also very humbling and surprising to know that I was the first SAS doctor to be appointed as an examiner for the College. It has made me reflect on my journey as an SAS doctor and how I got to become an examiner.
I completed my undergraduate medical and postgraduate anaesthetic training in Mumbai, India. Like a lot of doctors from India in the early 2000s, I chose to come to the UK on a ‘permit-free training’ visa to train and work in the NHS, be better paid, and have a better balance between work and life. I first applied as a clinical observer at Basingstoke hospital and then was successful at interview for the senior house officer (SHO) post in August 2003. This was the first time that I became aware of the SAS grade of non-training doctors in the UK. In 2003, Basingstoke already had six SAS doctors on full-time or part-time contracts. They were a motivated group of doctors who had their own fixed lists and worked independently anaesthetising for complex cases. But at that time, like everyone else, I was intent on trying to train and become a consultant.
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Biography of Dr John Russell Ritchie
This article focuses on support available to Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) users.
During 2024, almost 7.4 million unique actions were completed within it, while the LLP support team closed 17,000 emails, ensuring that customer service remains our top priority. The LLP serves more than 25,000 users, with many of these being anaesthetists in training.
The LLP team has been busy delivering a range of webinars and workshops as part of our commitment to helping and supporting doctors on their individual and collective training paths. One important webinar was a pre-ARCP preparation workshop held in January 2025, with trainers and trainees contributing useful guidance, information and top-tips to navigate the process. This supplemented previous introductory guidance covering reviewing the curriculum and creating ESSRs, HALOs and SLEs.
Following the Autumn recruitment rounds for CT1 and ST3 the College’s Recruitment Advisory Group has established plans for 2021 recruitment.