From reusing anaesthetics to recycling masks, how the NHS is going green

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Anaesthetists at St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust recognised

St Helens anaesthetists rewarded for high quality patient care

Agency Staff Draining Anaesthetic Department Budgets, Warn RCoA

Stand-in doctor is costing NHS trust £300,000 a year

Emergency bowel surgery: audit shows some improvement, but concern remains

Drive to tackle surgical backlog could backfire, leading surgeon warns

NHS gets £5.9bn funding boost in autumn budget to tackle waiting lists in England

Anaesthetist Shortage Could Prevent "Surgery Hubs" Clearing NHS Backlog

Daily Insight: Time is a healer

NHS leaders must give staff time to ‘access psychological support’

Through collaboration, flexibility, and compassion we can retain our NHS staff

Increasing Day Surgery Critical to Reducing Backlog Say NHS Leaders

More patients should expect their operations to be cancelled, warns top doctor

Why I . . . volunteer as a Royal Parks ranger

Record 5.45m are on hospital waiting lists as backlog grows

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals anaesthetics team commended for high quality patient safety and care

Pingdemic pass for NHS staff: Pinged health workers are allowed to dodge isolation 'under exceptional circumstances' to head-off growing crisis crippling Britain's wards 

France tightens its Covid rules for Brits in revenge for Boris's isolation U-turn

Fresh warnings that ‘pingdemic’ will create surge of isolating workers

COVID app chaos as 500,000 people 'pinged' in one week with factories on brink of closing

England's COVID hotspots: Interactive map shows virus is most prevalent in Manchester where one in 33 people are infected. 

Test and Trace app ‘pinging’ people whose neighbours have Covid through walls, report claims

Warnings grow about staff forced to self-isolate

COVID-19: Birmingham hospital cancels elective operations as health trusts and NHS staff face 'significant pressure'

COVID-19: Concerns mount over 'pingdemic' as Test and Trace app wreaks havoc

People in Leeds 'pinged' by NHS Covid app more than anywhere else in the country last week

Fresh warnings that ‘pingdemic’ will create surge of isolating workers

Fresh warnings that ‘pingdemic’ will create surge of isolating workers

UK COVID-19 Update

How I reduced opioid prescribing in my GP practice by more than 450,000mme in less than a year

Drop in NHS use of desflurane cuts CO2 emissions equal to nearly 200 million miles by car

Bradford anaesthetists hit benchmark to win prestigious award

Should lockdown lifting go ahead as concerns swirl over Covid variants?

Harsh reality of living with an ‘invisible’ condition

The Ward Round: A fragile recovery

NHS warns hospitals of fourth peak in Covid-19 cases at the end of the summer

Exclusive: NHS plans to keep electives at 80pc in next covid surge

New Covid wave could worsen NHS surgery backlog, experts warn

Coronavirus: NHS was ‘overwhelmed’ in January surge, study finds

Nearly 700 anaesthetists have training interrupted after cuts

Ministers urged to expand training places for hundreds of rejected doctors

‘A slap in the face’: Hundreds of frontline Covid doctors told they won’t have jobs from August

Daily Insight: Insult follows injury

700 anaesthetists may not secure a training job this summer, warns royal college

Council Member Dr Helgi Johannsson spoke on his experience on the frontline, alongside anaesthetists from America and South Africa. 

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Battle begins to beat the NHS backlog after Covid

Chair of our Scottish Board Dr Daphne Varveris also spoke in an STV filmed feature on the need for staff recovery. 

Ysbyty Gwynedd receives prestigious Royal College of Anaesthetists award 

Ysbyty Gwynedd becomes first hospital in Wales to receive top anaesthetists award

What is ‘chronic primary pain’ and why is NICE guidance on it causing controversy?

Women in England almost twice as likely as men to be prescribed opiate painkillers

Doctors raise concerns about NICE guidelines on chronic primary pain

'Significant Concerns' Over Pain Management Guidance

NICE chronic pain guidelines: ”Exercise has helped, but painkillers are also necessary”

Antidepressants and non-drug therapy should be considered for treatment of chronic primary pain, says NICE

Painkiller deaths double amid fears of opioid crisis

Patients warned to delay surgery after COVID infection amid concerns over higher death risk

Senedd election: RCoA manifesto for workforce and wellbeing

Check COVID status when planning emergency bowel surgery, doctors are told

International Women's Day: It's not who we are, but what we bring that should make the difference. 

Covid-19: Vaccine success drives England’s lockdown exit

Retirees, long journeys and more day cases will aid elective return, say doctors

Wales' treatment time target for suspected cancer missed with more than 460 patients waiting

Vice President Professor William Harrop-Griffiths spoke on the increasing waiting lists and the need to make staff wellbeing central to the resumption of services. 

Covid-19: Healthcare staff must be given time to recuperate from pandemic, say leaders

2 February 2021

The Daily Mail

Hearing music when you are under the knife during means you feel less pain when you wake up, new research suggests

Patients face fall in care quality as NHS training stalls in coronavirus pandemic

Increasing recruitment into COVID-19 trials

The NHS has reached an awful milestone – here’s how we recover

How is the pandemic affecting non-COVID services?

How the pressure is being felt in English hospitals.

Hard-hit region has more than twice as many critical care patients as last winter.

College spokesperson Dr Joe Cosgrove spoke on ICU capacity, planned surgery cancellations and staff illness.  

'People are Frightened!' Naga Munchetty probes support bubbles ban 'could be an option' 

‘Devastating’ risk as cancer operations are delayed due to Covid

Cancer crisis hits hospitals: Fears for patients and heart victims as doctors are forced to axe urgent surgery amid Covid-19 surge

Coronavirus in Scotland: Top doctors fear ‘perfect storm’ could soon overwhelm the NHS

Vice President Dr Fiona Donald spoke on the need to follow the guidelines this Christmas. 

Online trial aims to help cancer patients cope with pandemic

Council member Dr Helgi Johannsson spoke on the ability of the NHS to cope after Christmas. 

How our multidisciplinary approach helped us reduce our practice’s high-dose prescribing by almost half

Council member Dr Helgi Johannsson spoke on the importance of remaining vigilant at Christmas

College spokesperson Dr Joe Cosgrove spoke on the current situation in hospitals and why sticking to the guidance helps the public and medical staff.  

Clinical trial to compare anaesthesia impact on recovery post-surgery

Millions will face surgery delays unless anaesthetic workforce grows, college warns

Over one million patients at risk of not receiving treatment every year due to anaesthetic workforce shortages

19 November 2020

Seven Days in Medicine: Frail patients miss out on geriatrician input

13 November 2020

The BMJ

Emergency laparotomy: lack of geriatrician input leaves frail patients at double risk of death

10 November 2020

Anaesthetists at Slough's Wexham Park Hospital honoured

5 November 2020

3 November 2020

Doctors and patients: two nations divided by a common language

Covid-19: Will Greater Manchester´s intensive care units be overwhelmed?

NHS faces ‘catastrophic shortage’ of senior doctors

Surgical procedures are “less risky than thought”

How has the UK prepared for the second wave of Covid?

The BMJ

BMJ Awards 2020: NHS chief hails clinical leaders as winners are announced
 

Manchester Hospital team win BMJ Team of the Year Award

How can I smoothly transition from trainee to consultant?

COVID panic: Graph shows Spain hospitalisations dropping despite UK claims

16 September 2020

The Chester Standard

Countess of Chester Hospital anaesthetists rewarded for high quality patient care

Deep concern’ over ‘not fit for purpose’ draft NICE guidance on chronic pain

Coronavirus: Let partners back in for births, urges MP

6 August 2020

ITV

Calendar 

Front-line staff at risk of mental health crisis, experts warn

22 July 2020

Four in 10 anaesthetists fear for safety of their hospitals, poll finds

Hospitals 'want to cut PPE requirements to speed surgery return'

Covid-19: Take holiday now to prepare yourself for a second wave 

‘Independent review of NHS’ ahead of second wave

8 June 2020

The Times Red Box

NHS needs 'reserve' capacity to deal with future crises

PM urged to ‘ditch political rhetoric’ amid fears of coronavirus second wave – as Keir Starmer narrows gap in polls

'We need a strategy': senior clinicians fear UK has no plan for second wave

Boris Johnson told to dump rhetoric and plan for new Covid wave

Science and politics: A complicated formula

Seven days in medicine: Anaesthetists lack faith in resuming non-COVID services

Coronavirus: Health leaders back public inquiry into handling of pandemic

Coronavirus: Routine surgery must not restart until hospitals fully prepared, medical leaders warn

Our NHS staff are ‘heroes’, but what they really need is resources

Shortage of intensive care drugs mean operations cannot be restarted, anaesthetists warn

The machines helping hospitals fight coronavirus

Cancer patients face anxious wait as hospitals manage coronavirus risk

Professor Mike Grocott spoke on the limited amounts of PPE & how this was affecting both COVID and non-COVID treatment

Hospitals hit by drug shortages for coronavirus victims in intensive care wards

Anaesthetists report coronavirus concerns over inadequate PPE

Coronavirus: Medics shouldn’t work without safe PPE, doctors told as fears grow UK
pandemic stockpile is almost empty

How proning may help coronavirus recovery

Coronavirus: 'Local shortages' of intensive care drugs

How NHS doctors turn to WhatsApp to understand the coronavirus

What can Boris Johnson expect in intensive care?

Coronavirus: What are the possible outcomes after admission to intensive care?

Skill sharing in a pandemic: five minutes with . . . Helgi Johannsson

Coronavirus: Stay fit to fight the virus, say medics

Heartbreaking work for medics on infection front line in capital

Professor Mike Grocott spoke to the BBC on the importance of PPE

NHS will find it 'impossible' to maintain 24/7 cover during coronavirus pandemic if staff asked to self-isolate

Coronavirus: Cancel operations so hospitals can prepare for influx of virus patients, urge doctors

Anaesthetists prepare to join ICUs ahead of coronavirus peak