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.
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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.
The RCoA is pleased that the Anaesthetics National Recruitment Office (ANRO) are able to offer interviews to all applicants who have been successfully longlisted for ST4 posts.
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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We take a glimpse into the life of SAS Doctors, with profile stories from some of our members.
After a delay due to Covid, we are pleased to say we are in the final stages of NAP7. The baseline and activity surveys are complete and being prepared for publication. The NAP7 panel is working hard to digest all possible learning from the case registry. Here we provide a brief update, with the full report coming in late 2023. We are hugely appreciative of the contribution of all anaesthetists.
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government talked about their goal of delivering ‘shots in arms’ as the ultimate goal of the vaccine efforts. This wasn’t an exercise in expanding scientific knowledge or customising production, but the aim was clearly stated as being to deliver those advances to citizens in order to prevent them from becoming patients.
It may seem that we have been reporting on the HSRC-DAS-University of Nottingham collaboration on the UK eFONA Registry for a very long time. However, I am delighted to say that, a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, all the pieces are finally starting to slot together.
The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) is 10 years old this year, so this is a timely point to review progress, highlight achievements, and look at the persisting challenges ahead.