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Chapter 15: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Vascular Procedures 2022

Introduction

Vascular  services are recognised as having a high priority in the UK. Publication of evidence that the outcome from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery was significantly worse in the UK than in comparable countries,1 and the 2005 NCEPOD Report ‘AAA a service in need of surgery’, led to a national Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Quality Improvement Programme (AAAQIP)...

Training

UK wide training tools for safeguarding and child protection for anaesthetists

Chapter 18: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac and Thoracic Procedures 2021

Introduction

Cardiothoracic anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify areas of differing requirement. Anaesthetists in cardiac surgical services are now more frequently required to provide anaesthesia for invasive cardiology procedures.

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery may involve adult, paediatric and neonatal patients and includes...

Cost of Training

Transparency of data - Cost of training and examinations
The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) ensure that doctors in training, members and fellows are provided with an appropriate breakdown of costs of supporting doctors in training and in the provision of the examinations that form part of the relevant training programmes.

Annual reporting on the FRCA Examination 

At the beginning of November, the College publishes annual reports on the performance of the Primary and Final components of the FRCA exam in the previous academic year.