Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group (SALG) and Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) have published a new national Standardised Operating Procedure (SOP) to prevent wrong side block.
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Supporting resources for anaesthetists in training and their trainers
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Accurate and up-to-date workforce data is essential to informing and influencing national workforce bodies, stakeholders and representing the state of the UK anaesthesia workforce.
This article focuses on support available to Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) users.
During 2024, almost 7.4 million unique actions were completed within it, while the LLP support team closed 17,000 emails, ensuring that customer service remains our top priority. The LLP serves more than 25,000 users, with many of these being anaesthetists in training.
The LLP team has been busy delivering a range of webinars and workshops as part of our commitment to helping and supporting doctors on their individual and collective training paths. One important webinar was a pre-ARCP preparation workshop held in January 2025, with trainers and trainees contributing useful guidance, information and top-tips to navigate the process. This supplemented previous introductory guidance covering reviewing the curriculum and creating ESSRs, HALOs and SLEs.
Dr Nishant Kalra and Dr Amit Prakash tell us about their CESR programme at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) programmes now called the ‘portfolio pathway’ have become popular among many trusts. With more than 2,000 LED & SAS doctors in the UK, there is a growing need for structured CESR programmes to ensure a successful application via the portfolio pathway.
In 2019, we initiated the CESR programme at Addenbrookes Hospital. This is a three-year structured programme based upon the RCoA curriculum for already experienced anaesthetic CESR aspirants, with dedicated educational supervision and an ARCP-like process. Now, with six years of running, the programme has proved to be an excellent platform for achieving successful registration on the GMC specialist register, as it mirrors the GMC and RCoA requirements for CESR. So far, five out of six CESR fellows have been successfully appointed to substantive consultant posts within the UK.
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Biography of Dr Michael Denis Nosworthy
This article provides a useful, summary of the key principles from The GMC’s Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation.
In the last Bulletin, I talked about the work done to complete a major review of our supporting information for appraisal and revalidation. The updated documentation is available on our website, and this article provides some extracts on the guidance for collecting colleague and patient feedback.
For collecting patient feedback, the key principles from The GMC’s Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation can be summarised as follows.
Dr Christopher Timmis, ST6 Anaesthetic and Intensive Care, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital tells us how a multidisciplinary hospital sports team will always be the winning side.
The anaesthetic department at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital started a mixed social hockey team during the summer months. Critics who preferred non-team sports argued the organiser was trying to boost his weak CV prior to future consultant applications, but the main aim was always to have fun!
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.
We would like to use this Bulletin issue to present some data on the College’s CPD event-accreditation scheme over the previous 12 months.
Applications continue to be welcome from regional bodies and specialist societies and associations. Accredited events appear on the College website and in the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) – if you have attended an event aimed at a regional or national audience please always first check in the LLP if it has been approved. You will then be able to save duplication of effort by associating the event to your newly created CPD activity.