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The Adult Critical Care GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) Programme National Specialty Report February 2021, is available for download here. We welcome the publication of the GIRFT national report on adult critical care, which rightly places the patient at the centre of its recommendations. We strongly endorse the...
Since its inception in 2006, the NIHR has significantly increased the scale of clinical research in the NHS, particularly through the Clinical Research Network. The enthusiastic engagement of NHS clinicians is an essential condition for sustaining and building on this success, particularly given the many competing demands on clinician time...
An urgent letter has been published by NHS England about blood specimen collection and blood bottle usage. Becton Dickinson has alerted NHS England to a shortage of products from their Blood Specimen Collection Portfolio that is impacting across most main blood tube supplies.
To read the full letter please click...
The Intensive Care Society and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine are pleased to share the GPICS V2 Audit toolkit.
The toolkit has been developed to allow units to benchmark themselves against the latest version of the Guidelines for Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS) Version 2, standards, and recommendations....
Life After Critical Illness: A guide for developing and delivering aftercare services for critically ill patients (LACI) is now available for public consultation. The consultation window will close at 9am on Tuesday 31 August; comments will not be accepted after this time.
The document can be found here: consultation draft document.
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We are pleased to announce the release of a new Midnight Law on Deprivation of Liberty in Intensive Care developed by members of our Legal and Ethical Policy Unit (LEPU).
Midnight Law aims to cover thorny legal issues in a one-page summary that you can access whenever and wherever...
In 2021 in the UK, a diagnosis of death using neurological criteria, had to be reversed. The case concerned bilateral therapeutic decompressive craniectomy as a treatment for severe traumatic brain injury. An expert group reviewed the case and made recommendations, which have been accepted by the FICM and...
The FICM Education Sub-Committee (ESC) are seeking a podcast lead. Whilst experience of podcasting will be of benefit, this is not a requirement. We are looking for individuals who are energetic and passionate to learn with the support of the Faculty. Please read the job description and application form for...
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) have collaboratively produced new guidance that outlines how emergency care and critical care can work together more closely and learn from each other to the benefit of patients. Better...
The Faculty welcomes the outcome of the court case between Newcastle Hospital and a group of parents who wished to name the doctors involved in the care of their children, in which cases the removal of life-support was disputed.
"Whilst the circumstances of these individual cases are tragic,
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