Bulletin Magazine: Winter 2025

Enjoy the first issue of 2025 – our quarterly members' magazine. 

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Welcome to the Royal College of Anaesthetists

Anaesthesia is the largest single hospital specialty in the NHS. We are the professional body responsible for the specialty throughout the UK.

We're here to support your needs. Find out more about:

Find out more about what we do

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Training and careers
We're responsible for setting recruitment, training and assessment standards. This is how we're able to attract and then support the best doctors from medical schools.
Final FRCA Examinations

Examinations
The Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) examination tests the knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes required by anaesthetists in training.
Simulation training in anaesthesia

Research
The College supports the funding, development and delivery of high quality healthcare research.

Ways you can support our work

Membership

Membership
We are the third largest medical royal college in the UK by membership. With over 26,000 fellows and members, we represent the three specialties of anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine.
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Resources
We keep our fellows and members up-to-date with the latest news from the College and specialty via the Bulletin and regular newsletters as well as providing free access to key academic journals.
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Get involved
We thrive because of our strong and active membership. As we're keen to involve you in our work to help shape future strategy, we've created numerous volunteering roles for fellows and members within the College.

Latest news

Green Theatre Checklist version 2.0
We are pleased to support version 2.0 of the Intercollegiate Green Theatre Checklist, a resource to help surgical teams reduce the environmental impact of operating theatres.

Achieving regional anaesthesia outcomes

New guidance from RA-UK and the RCoA will help trainers support anaesthetists in training to meet the regional anaesthesia capabilities of the curriculum in situations where clinical training opportunities are limited.

MHRA update: GLP-1 & dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonists
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Drug Safety Update highlights the potential risk of pulmonary aspiration during general anaesthesia or deep sedation in patients using GLP-1 or dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonists.

Upcoming events

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Anaesthesia 2025
Our Anaesthesia 2025 flagship conference will take place in Belfast and online in May 2025 for three days.
Final FRCA Revision Course tutorial session

Final FRCA Written revision course
This online course is aimed at those studying for the Final FRCA Written examination and will cover key areas that have proved difficult for past examination candidates.

Membership provides a variety of benefits to both you as an individual member, but also to the specialty of anaesthesia.

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