Author: Dr Satya Francis, RCoA Council Member

The UK needs more anaesthetists. This is the key message of RCoA’s 2025 Census, which was a huge project involving three large surveys of clinical leaders, College tutors, and the wider anaesthetic workforce.

These surveys generated an enormous amount of data, much of which is still being processed. However, given the development of major government plans, such as the NHS 10-year workforce plan in England, we thought it useful to get some of the census results out early. Hence, we published our ‘Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025: Key Interim Findings’ report last October.