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Dr Anjum Goth shares a very personal story of her stillbirth experience. 1 in 225 foetuses die before or during delivery in the UK each year. A third of these are term babies – born at 37 weeks or beyond – who were considered healthy before their death.

Following the murder of George Floyd in the United States in 2020, which moved and touched so many individuals and organisations across the world, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign has acted as a catalyst for positive action and renewed debate about how best to address systemic racism in our society and issues that affect the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.

I have been appointed as the new SAS representative for the Faculty of Pain Medicine Training and Assessment Committee (FPMTAC). After graduating in 1992, I worked in some of the renowned hospitals in India in anaesthesia and intensive care. I moved to the UK in 2003 to improve my anaesthetic skills and knowledge.

‘Snowflake’ is a term commonly wielded by our elders to bludgeon what they deem to be a fragile, over-sensitive and under-resilient youth of today. A people unable to cope with life. It does however require a certain amount of historical amnesia to use this slight without some irony catching in the throat. Did they not enjoy rock bottom housing prices, free higher education and high levels of job security, only to then preside over their decimation?

The 2021 SAS contract reform introduced a new strategic role to support the health and wellbeing of the SAS workforce, the ‘SAS Advocate’. This role provides an opportunity to challenge the status quo, and to potentially change the culture and expectations associated with being an SAS doctor.

The Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) scheme has the concept of continuous quality improvement at its heart, and departments who engage with the scheme have to demonstrate this in order to gain and retain accreditation.

Dr Richard Knight provides a gripping first-hand account of military surgical facilities during the Falklands War..."The doctrine under which the unit had trained was essentially the same as was used during the Second World War: treat a wound, evacuate and repeat to a major facility. The Falklands were 8,000 miles from any tertiary facility. Helicopter evacuation at night, when most battles took place, was extremely difficult."

Our working lives as anaesthetists revolve around effective teamwork, communication, and empathy with the many different professions we interact with. Interprofessional education (IPE) is an increasingly familiar teaching methodology which aims to enhance and improve these collaborative abilities. Considering recent critical reports on the lack of teamwork and interprofessional co-operation within clinical systems, we present a review of IPE and how its increased adoption may help address these failings.

With such a minimal amount of time in the undergraduate curriculum allocated to anaesthesia, it is crucial that we maximise learning opportunities to inspire and develop future clinicians. Here is how we revolutionised the undergraduate anaesthetic placement at Northwick Park Hospital.

As the 2021 curriculum enters its second year, the new curriculum continues to evolve. At each step, this process has been informed by feedback from anaesthetists in training and trainers to guide changes, aid additional clarification, and influence future improvements.