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The British Medical Journal award for Workforce and Wellbeing team of the year was awarded to the Joint Fatigue Working Group.The working group is made up of contributors from FICM, Association of Anaesthetists,...
Dr Alison Pittard, Faculty Dean to be awarded OBE.
The Faculty is delighted to report that our Dean, Dr Alison Pittard has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Dr Pittard has demonstrated exemplary national leadership for Intensive Care Medicine and co-operative working during the pandemic with Royal...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal College of Anaesthetists are urging people across the United Kingdom and those visiting it, to abide strictly by the government’s rules regarding social distancing. With a worrying increase in hospital admissions of patients with Coronavirus and the
The GMC has confirmed that from 7 October 2020 they will issue a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to doctors on a CESR Combined Programme (CESR -CP) where there is no minimum UK training time listed for ICM in the European Union (EU) legislation. Please click here for further information.
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), NHS England & NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) and Health Education England (HEE) are pleased to endorse the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s (ESICM) C-19 SPACE COVID Preparation Course and encourage all UK hospitals to register for it. Funded by the...
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) has been working on simplifying medical appraisal and the revised arrangements have now been agreed by NHSE/I. Steve Powis has sent a letter to responsible officers and medical directors in the service with details. Medical appraisal was suspended for most doctors in...
The Faculty has been working closely with partner organisations to develop optional skills framework modules for ACCPs to undertake as appropriate*
The first of which, Diagnosing Death for Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) has been created in conjunction with NHS Blood and Transplant and we are delighted to say it is...
We are pleased to announce the release of Guidance For: Trachesotomy Care
This guidance was produced by the Short-life Standards and Guidelines Working Party of the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project on behalf of the Intensive Care Society and has been endorsed by the FICM.
The patient population in NHS hospitals...
We are pleased to announce the release of Guidance For: Trachesotomy Care
This guidance was produced by the Short-life Standards and Guidelines Working Party of the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project on behalf of the Intensive Care Society and has been endorsed by the FICM.
The patient population in NHS hospitals...
The ACCEA are looking to recruit members to join their Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) Sub-Committee.
ACCEA hope to open the 2020 and 2021 rounds later this year for national Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs), however this is still to be confirmed. Given the cancellation of the awards round in...