The Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia in Oxford is the largest clinical department in our trust. We are based across five different sites, with more than 200 anaesthetists. Our department has a strong history of engaging in national projects, including the National Audit Projects (NAPs).
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Adapting to change is the theme for this year's training issue. As always, the issue is packed with the usual great mix of features, opinions and guidance. You'll also get to meet our new editorial board anaesthetist in training members and we have a new feedback form.
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Dr Roger Sharpe qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1986. He trained in anaesthesia in North West London and was appointed as a consultant at Northwick Park Hospital in 1997. He is a generalist anaesthetist and has worked predominantly in trauma, obstetrics and DGH level paediatrics.
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Our Quality Improvement Strategy highlights the College's vision and aims to enhance services and ensure better patient outcomes through collaborative and sustainable improvement, using data together with improvement science. It is our aim to ensure quality improvement is a core element of every anaesthetist's practice.
2016 saw the Royal College of Anaesthetists launch our first ever strategy. This revised strategy will continue to guide our decision-making and resource allocation while providing patients and the wider public, as well as our staff, members and partners, with a clear understanding of our values and purpose.
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In this episode, Eoin, Rosie and Serina discuss some of the pathophysiological conditions that anaesthetists encounter on the labour ward including gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia and abnormal placental implantation. Eoin and Rosie give advice on how to approach these and how they might impact our management of patients presenting with these conditions.
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How will the profession evolve as the years pass? Change is inevitable and the direction of change is becoming clearer but how will we adapt to the new roles and requirements we can see coming towards us in the near future? Will Anaesthetists be able to tackle the leadership role which many expect to become commonplace?
An epidural is a type of anaesthetic where a very thin plastic tube (catheter) is put in your back. Your anaesthetist uses the catheter to give you pain medicines to relieve pain or numb the lower part of your body. Learn about the risks and side effects of regional anaesthesia by reading this information.
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.
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.