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The Royal College of Anaesthetists has launched My RCoA – a new online portal, making it easier and quicker for members of the College and/or one of our Faculties to manage their data and information.
A survey jointly commissioned by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), the Association of Anaesthetists (the Association) and the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched.
Research led by the College around the care of over 21,000 patients before, during and after emergency bowel surgery has shown an improvement in the 30-day mortality rate.
Elections for six Consultant vacancies, one SAS vacancy and one Anaesthetist in Training vacancy on the Council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists will open a week from today – Tuesday 16 November.
The College gives an update on conversations it has been having with the Anaesthetics National Recruitment Office (ANRO) and Health Education England (HEE), which manages ANRO, following ANRO’s handling of recruitment information for ST3 anaesthetic training posts.
Ahead of COP26 the College is calling on hospitals and anaesthetic departments to increase their efforts to reduce the use of environmentally-damaging anaesthetic gases and switch to more sustainable options in the fight to combat the climate emergency.