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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‘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 pandemic has generated a staggering backlog, with more than 7 million patients waiting for care. In order to treat these patients in a timely way, we need to increase our work rate beyond pre-pandemic levels but with our current workforce and model of care, this will be difficult.
This article outlines best practice in providing educational support or mentorship for all anaesthetic staff within your department.
This article explores what needs to be done next to address Scotland's national gap in clinical governance, which results in blind spots and potential risks to patients.
In Scotland there stands a national gap in clinical governance which results in blind spots and potential risk to patients. This article explores why Scotland is missing out and what needs to be done next.
Our nation is ideally placed to perform and contribute to UK-wide audit. The population size, the uniform governance structure, and the infrastructure and expertise should lend themselves to a world-leading approach to clinical audit and outcomes.
Despite this, Scotland doesn’t participate in an important programme for ensuring standards and safety in anaesthesia in the UK. The Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group (SALG) is a long-standing collaborative project between the Royal College of Anaesthestists (RCoA) and the Association of Anaesthetists. Established in 2008, it aims to provide a central repository for anaesthesia-related patient-safety incidents. SALG then analyses, prioritises and takes appropriate action on reported incidents.
Returning to work following a prolonged period out of training is daunting, Dr Christiana Ord provide some great tips for a less stressful and smoother return.
Returning to work following a prolonged period out of training is daunting, whether that be due to parental leave, sick leave, carer’s leave or for Out-of-Programme time.
Anaesthetists in training know all too well the stresses that come with frequently rotating between different hospitals and departments, with three- and six-monthly rotations being quite the norm in some deaneries.
Having a child is a life changing experience, and many would hope that their place of work remained constant throughout the beginnings of parenthood. Frequent job rotations with a diverse curriculum to work through means trainees are potentially carrying out their return to work in a new environment while juggling the stresses of childcare and pressures of getting back up-to-speed at work.
The fourth national trainee-led research project of the Research and Audit Federation of Trainees (RAFT) is well into the development stage. We will investigate patient-reported outcomes after day-case surgery, including data on the quality of recovery, pain, and analgesia in the first week after surgery.
Dr John Francis Nunn died after an acute episode of respiratory failure. He had spent the last four years of his life in residential care due to progressive vascular dementia.
Here is the latest data from the CPD event-accreditation scheme. During 2022 we received more than 900 applications for CPD event accreditation. Around two-thirds of these gained the accreditation applied for without condition, although for the remainder this approval only became available when further information or clarification was provided.
The Singhota Family prize: bringing the generic professional capabilites to the curriculum forefront
This article discusses 'The birth of the generic professional capabilities learning hub' project which won second place in the Singhota Family prize, awarded in memory of Dr Jasjot Singhota.