The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) commenced work in 1988 and identifies remediable factors in anaesthesia, surgery and medicine.
ANAESTHETIC CO-ORDINATOR VACANCY
1-2 sessions per week (secondment)
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The President of the College recently attended a meeting with Lord Darzi regarding the NHS Review in England.
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The Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland has decided to place some of the final drafts of its well-known ''glossies'' on the web prior to publication. This is to give the membership a chance to comment. Two documents are now at this stage and we invite comments over the next few weeks. They are 'Infection Control in Anaesthesia (2nd Edition)' and 'DNAR Orders in the Perioperative Period'.
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The Manpower Census, of the medical staff working in intensive care units, is important for all in the profession as well as for future planning. This is an exciting venture and all Consultants, Trainees’, NCCGs and Clinical Fellows working in intensive care are invited to take part, both members and non members of the Society. Data will be analysed by the Manpower Committee and results will be anonymised and published in JICS later in the year.
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The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland (AAGBI) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), with the full support of the Patient Liaison Group, have decided that the title Anaesthesia Practitioner will no longer be used and that the title Physicians’ Assistant (Anaesthesia), abbreviated to PA(A), will replace it in all current and future RCoA and AAGBI documents, guidelines and publications. This change has been made in the interests of accuracy, clarity and consistency.
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On Friday 15 February 2008 the Inaugural Meeting of the Subsection of Critical Care Medicine in Association with the Section of Anaesthesia of the RSM will be held at The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
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Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers
The Royal College of Anaesthetists warmly welcomes the publication today of the Final Recommendations of Sir John Tooke’s panel.
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