Welcome to this special edition of the Bulletin where we will showcase the work of some of the projects from the College’s Health Services Research Centre (HSRC). We will also hear from our patient and carer group, PCPIE, who have been crucial in ensuring projects have meaningful involvement from development and delivery through to reporting.
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After a delay due to Covid, we are pleased to say we are in the final stages of NAP7. The baseline and activity surveys are complete and being prepared for publication. The NAP7 panel is working hard to digest all possible learning from the case registry. Here we provide a brief update, with the full report coming in late 2023. We are hugely appreciative of the contribution of all anaesthetists.
It may seem that we have been reporting on the HSRC-DAS-University of Nottingham collaboration on the UK eFONA Registry for a very long time. However, I am delighted to say that, a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, all the pieces are finally starting to slot together.
The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) is 10 years old this year, so this is a timely point to review progress, highlight achievements, and look at the persisting challenges ahead.
We go behind the scenes of the NIAA’s Patient, Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement Group (aka the ‘PCPIE' Group) to speak to some of its members about their work and how they believe it benefits research.
The Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme has been running since 2016 and wouldn’t be anything without our collaborators. We would like to thank them all for their hard work.
If there is one thing we have learnt recently, it is to make sure we engage with you, our members. We need your valuable experience and views to shape the future of the College. You may remember that back in February we took a single proposal regarding governance of the College to an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), asking members to back a package of measures to change the governance of the College and bring us in line with the laws which govern us in our legal status as a charity. This proposal, while receiving the majority of votes, did not get the support of the two-thirds of attendees needed to pass it.
Planning and implementing one of the new special interest areas (SIAs) available from the 2021 curriculum: a trainee’s and trainer’s perspective.
I have recently been offered a role as a specialist anaesthetist. This is the final stage of my career pathway. To most, becoming a consultant is the final stage. To those not on the trainee pathway, the goal is to become a specialist.
We are in the midst of a climate emergency. With record-breaking heat waves and flooding over the last few years, the danger to our patients’ health is undeniable. Even the World Health Organization described climate change as ‘the single biggest health threat facing humanity’.