Professor Mike Grocott has been re-appointed as a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Professor Grocott was one of 25 renewals and will be joined by 30 new appointments. He is the only anaesthetists who is on the list this year and one of only four who have ever been appointed.
Yin Jones and Veena Soni, members of the Lay Committee were invited to join the panel discussion, hosted by the Ethics Committee on Assisted Dying, at Anaesthesia 2022. Here they recounted a few conference highlights:
Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust (Wythenshawe) have been accredited under the prestigious RCoA Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) demonstrating their commitment to patient safety and excellence of care.
The Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists, Intensive Care Society and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine have been informed by NHS England of an impending disruption to the supply of all ampoule sizes of remifentanil.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has announced three days of rail strikes on 21, 23 and 25 June 2022, also warning the strike will affect the national network across the whole week.
RCoA welcomes the announcement by the BMA SAS Committee that there will be no cut-off date for anaesthetists on existing SAS contracts to request migration onto the new 2021 contract.