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Appropriate staffing levels and skill mix should be provided in all units, multispecialty general hospitals, isolated units and large single specialty centres, delivering ophthalmic anaesthesia. For most operating sessions, this should include surgeon,...

Appropriate staffing levels and skill mix should be provided in all units, multispecialty general hospitals, isolated units and large single specialty centres, delivering ophthalmic anaesthesia. For most operating sessions, this should include surgeon, anaesthetist, two theatre trained scrub practitioners, one trained nurse or operating department practitioner to assist with local anaesthesia/patient monitoring, and one theatre support worker/runner.2,3

Chapter 6: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Day Surgery 2025

Day surgery should be a consultant or autonomously practising anaesthetist/surgeon-led service with a dedicated clinical lead or clinical director who has programmed activities allocated to the role within their job plan. The role of the clinical director is to champion the cause of day surgery and to ensure that best practice is followed. This role may involve the development of...

Coffee Club: tackling trainee burnout

In an attempt to prevent burnout in our trainee cohort, Dr James Wicker and Dr Elodia Dalmonte created a regular wellbeing initiative: Coffee Club. They wanted to provide a time and a place in which trainees could reflect on their individual and collective experiences.

There is a mental-health crisis among doctors in the United Kingdom, with 51% experiencing poor mental health, nearly 50% wishing to reduce their working hours, and 10% planning to quit.1 There are excessively high levels of burnout being reported among anaesthetists in training.2 Burnout impacts on the delivery of high-quality patient care,3 and a ‘healthy’ work environment is associated with approximately 30% less intention to leave the profession.4

In an attempt to prevent burnout in our trainee cohort, we created a regular wellbeing initiative: Coffee Club. We wanted to provide a time and a place in which trainees could reflect on their individual and collective experiences. It was essential that this was a warm, welcoming, safe and confidential space.