RCoA endorsed resources
The RCoA offers collaboration on guidance through its Consultation and Endorsement Group, which is made up of members of RCoA Council and PatientsVoices@RCoA.
The RCoA and devolved nations Boards provide endorsement of material for a duration of five years or until the review date published in the material, whichever is the longer period. We reserve the right to withdraw our representative or decline to endorse a publication.
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Endorsements before 2021 are under review:
- Smoke Free NHS Network (endorsed 2023)
- 5th Consensus Guidelines on Perioperative Nausea and Vomiting (endorsed 2026)
- Anaesthesia Team Guideline (endorsed 2018)
- Cell salvage for peri‐operative blood conservation 2018 (endorsed 2018)
- Checklist for draw-over anaesthetic equipment (endorsed 2019)
- Elective perioperative management of adults taking glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonists, glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: a multidisciplinary consensus statement (endorsed 2024)
- Guidelines for anaesthesia and sedation in patients who are breastfeeding (endorsed 2025)
- Handling Injectable Medications in Anaesthesia: Safety Recommendations (endorsed 2023)
- Anaesthesia and peri-operative care for
Jehovah’s Witnesses and patients who refuse blood (endorsed 2018) - Management of glucocorticoids during the peri-operative period for patients with adrenal insufficiency (endorsed 2020)
- Management of vagal nerve stimulator therapy (endorsed 2022)
- The ‘NAP5 Handbook’: Concise practice guidance on the prevention and management of accidental awareness during general anaesthesia (endorsed 2019)
- Peri-operative care for people with dementia (endorsed 2019)
- Quick Reference Handbook (endorsed 2018 by SALG)
- Safe provision of anaesthetic services in magnetic resonance units' guidelines (endorsed 2018)
- Safe transfer of the brain-injured patient: trauma and stroke (endorsed 2018)
- Consensus guidelines: Use of sterile gowns for single-shot spinal anaesthesia (endorsed 2025)
- Preparation and management of children and young people with individual needs requiring surgery or procedures (endorsed 2026)
- Association of Anaesthetists, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI), College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, RCoA
- Neonatal Airway safety Standard (endorsed 2024)
- Corridor care within the post anaesthetic care unit (endorsed 2026)
- Care of the child or young person in recovery: knowledge and skills workbook (endorsed 2025)
- Guidelines on sedation in gastrointestinal endoscopy (endorsed 2023)
- #CallMe initiative (endorsed 2023)
- Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology (endorsed 2025 by the RCoA and SALG)
- Guidelines for the provision of intensive care services v3 (endorsed 2026)
- Day Case Hysterectomy Guide (endorsed 2023)
- Day Case Tonsillectomy Pathway (Paediatrics) (endorsed 2023)
- Greener Pathways: a practical guide to decarbonising the total hip replacement pathway (endorsed 2026)
- Greener Pathways: A practical guide to decarbonising the urinary tract stones pathway (endorsed 2026)
- National Day Surgery Delivery Pack (endorsed 2024)
- Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis: principles for primary arthroplasty (endorsed 2025)
- Guidance: Desflurane decommissioning and clinical use (endorsed 2024)
- National Patient Safety Alert: Risk of oxytocin overdose during labour and childbirth (endorsed 2024)
- Reference guide on early screening and optimisation (endorsed 2023)
- Core information standard (endorsed 2019)
- Digital Medication Information Assurance (endorsed 2019)
- Obstetric Anaesthetic Standard (endorsed 2025)
- Seasonal influenza - Guidance for critical care units (endorsed 2019)
- Scottish standards of care for hip fracture patients (endorsed 2024)
- Patient safety alert – gas in the vitrectomised eye (endorsed 2018)
- Facing the future - standards for children and young people in emergency care settings (endorsed 2025)
- National guidance for the restoration and recovery of elective surgery in children (endorsed 2022)
- On behalf of the Intercollegiate Steering Group: Safeguarding children and young people & children and young people in care: Competencies for health care staff (endorsed 2025)
- Improving Paediatric Interventional Radiology services in the UK (endorsed 2022)
- Higher Risk General Surgery (endorsed 2018)
- Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines (endorsed 2018)
- In partnership with the Royal College of GPs: A manifesto for health and climate (endorsed 2025)
- #SASSixPrinciples (endorsed 2024)
- Scottish Standards for Electroconvulsive Therapy (endorsed 2023)
- Building a climate-resilient health system in the UK (endorsed 2025)
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