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An appropriately skilled or experienced stage 2 or above resident anaesthetist should be available immediately at all times. Appropriately experienced staff grade, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors and on-call consultants or autonomously practising anaesthetists should also be available within 30 minutes. Where paediatric services are provided, consultant or autonomously practising paediatric anaesthetists should be available.⁴

There should be sufficient programmed activity time available for anaesthetists to assess patients perioperatively and to attend multidisciplinary ward rounds.

There should be sufficient programmed activity time to provide support to sedation and analgesia services for burn patients.

Appropriate equipment should be available to enable prone positioning of patients.^16,17

A difficult airway trolley, including the equipment necessary for failed intubation and surgical airway access, should be available.¹⁸ Appropriate specialist intubation equipment, including fibreoptic intubation equipment, should be available.¹⁹ A fibreoptic scope should be available to assess inhalational injury. ^{20,21,22,23,24,25}

Equipment necessary for the formation of a surgical airway, including front of neck access should be available.^26,27

Ventilators with advanced ventilatory mode functions should be available.²⁸

Burns anaesthetists should have access to and knowledge of nasendoscopy.

Equipment to comply with the Association of Anaesthetists standards for anaesthetic monitoring should be available.¹¹

Pulse oximetry ear probes should be available.^29,30