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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.

Perioperative Journal Watch is written by TRIPOM (trainees with an interest in perioperative medicine – tripom.org) and is a brief distillation of recent important papers and articles on perioperative medicine from across the spectrum of medical publications.

Dr Steve Evans, ST7 Anaesthetics talks us through the new guidance on the perioperative management of anaemia.

At the time of writing this article we can be fairly confident that we have left the worst of the pandemic behind us. However, the NHS now faces the challenge of tackling spiralling waiting times for elective surgery.

Jason Williams-James, RCoA Patients Voices member with personal experience of surgery and anaesthesia, discusses the importance of DrEaMing with Eleanor Warwick, ST6 Anaesthetist and Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP) Fellow. They discuss why patients, the surgical multidisciplinary team (MDT), and organisations should be interested in this quality improvement metric.

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.