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This article gives an overview of the developments in equivalence and portfolio in the changing and evolving GMC pathway.
Five years following DART’s inception, Bristol Royal Infirmary’s Difficult Airway Response Team highlight the challenges intrinsic to maintaining the service and how they have attempted to overcome these.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust discuss the development of their innovative five-minute flashcards in helping to improve knowledge and teamwork, and ultimately enhance patient safety.
Dr Dale Gardiner gives us an overview of the responsibilities and work of the FICM Professional Affairs & Safety Committee.
This article focuses on team working and the role of multidisciplinary team (MDT) training.
Dr James Wicker updates us on AWN's important work, which involves members sharing ideas and supporting each other.
The Anaesthetic Workforce: UK State of the Nation Report 2024 was a sobering reminder of the challenging working environment we find ourselves in. An Anaesthetic Wellbeing Network was born two years before that, meeting online for the first time in February 2022.
It was an attempt to share ideas on how to improve the working conditions of healthcare providers within a network of anaesthetists and clinicians with an interest in this field from the Kent, Surrey and Sussex/London region. The group has proved to be very successful, and has grown, with colleagues from around the country joining virtually, every few months.
So, what have we achieved as a group and what do we hope to do next?
Dr Glaze, our Dinwoodie Simulation Fellow and an ST5 anaesthetist in training, updates us on some exciting developments in simulation.
Dr Greig makes the case for clear and consistent terminology and why it's important.
Critical terms must be clearly and consistently used.
For example, UK law recognises protected titles; ‘general practitioner’, ‘registered nurse’, or ‘paramedic’ have specific meanings, and to use one carries legal weight. Interestingly ‘surgeon’ appears on the GMC’s list of legally protected titles, but ‘anaesthetist’ does not.
While meaning can appear clear from context, ambiguity creates risk. It need not be highly technical terminology to cause problems. Misunderstanding of ‘OK’ contributed to the 1977 Tenerife air disaster, where a tower controller probably intended ‘I acknowledge your request to take off’, but the flight commander understood ‘you are giving me clearance for take-off’. The Boeing 747 accelerated down the runway, and shortly thereafter collided with another aircraft.
Dr Alison Pittard, OBE: "The end of my tenure brings an opportunity to reflect on the last three years. COVID-19 has dominated and it is easy to focus on the negatives, but, as an eternal optimist, I see many positives. I had three objectives when I became dean, the first of which was to promote our specialty."