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All members of the anaesthetic team should receive non-clinical training and education, which should be reflected in job plans and job planning. This might include a locally arranged list of topics (e.g. fire safety, consent, infection control, blood product administration, mental capacity, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, communication skills). Some of this training will be mandatory under the legislation for...

All trainees must be appropriately clinically supervised at all times.⁶

All patients undergoing anaesthesia should be under the overall care of a consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist whose name is recorded as part of the anaesthetic record. ²⁷⁸

Departments of anaesthesia should ensure that a named supervisory consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist is available to all non-autonomously practising anaesthetists based on the training and experience of the individual doctor and the range and scope of their clinical practice.²⁷⁸ Where an anaesthetist is supervised by a consultant or other autonomously practising anaesthetist, they should be aware of their...

There should be induction programmes for all new members of staff, including locums. Induction for a locum doctor should include familiarisation with the layout of the hospital and the location of emergency equipment and drugs, access to guidelines and protocols, information on how to summon support/assistance, and assurance that the locum is capable of using the equipment in that hospital...

All recovery staff should receive appropriate training recognised for post-anaesthesia care.¹⁸⁰ Training should be tailored to meet the needs of the individual staff member and the recovery area.¹⁸⁵

CPD and the training of other staff should be facilitated by activities such as the establishment of lead practitioners and accounted for within job plans.

Members of clinical staff working within the recovery area should be certified to a standard equivalent to immediate life support providers, and training should be provided.

At all times, an anaesthetist or at least one other advanced life support provider should be immediately available. 

For children, a staff member with an advanced paediatric life support qualification or an anaesthetist with paediatric competencies should be immediately available.¹⁸⁰