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Following the announcement by the Welsh Government of a review of critical care capacity and recurrent funding of £15 million, the Faculty are pleased to see this following announcement demonstrating that £5 million of this funding will be...
We welcome and fully support the decision from the Department of Health and Social Care to proceed with the statutory regulation of Physicians’ Associates (PAs) and Physicians’ Assistants (Anaesthesia) (PA(A)s).
We are disappointed to hear...
New roles available in the ACCPSC
The FICM Advanced Critical Care Practitioners Sub-Committee (ACCPSC) are seeking new Consultant members. The committee is made up of both ACCPs and Consultants. If you’re a Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and would like to get involve please read the job description and...
The Faculty are pleased to work with the National Institute for Health Research’s Clinical Research Network to offer two clinical awards, each with a £1000 prize.
The awards are focussed on clinicians who undertake research alongside their daytime activities rather than clinical academics. Click on the link below for more information...
The e-ICM e-learning project is an online ICM education programme consisting of over 700 sessions free to anyone working in the NHS. Embedded within the Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) hub and funded by FICM and NHS Education, the aim is to make easily accessible educational content for those working...
Following calls from doctors, responsible officers and appraisers, for clearer information on what is meant by 'reflection' as part of practice; the Academy, the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD), the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC) have produce...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine regret to announce the death of Professor Graham Ramsay, who died on September 6th 2018. He was President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) from 2004 - 2006.
Amongst his many notable achievements he created the PACT programme,...
The Faculty is pleased to report that it has been accepted as a ranking and nominating body for the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) process, which we understand will continue into 2019. This means that ICM now has both the Faculty and the...
The Faculty welcomes the first publication arising from the work of the 2nd Sprint National Anaesthesia Project: Epidemiology of Critical Care provision after Surgery (SNAP-2: EpiCCS).This BJA article concentrates on risk factors for cancellation of major surgery and naturally includes issues of critical care capacity.
SNAP-2 findings rightly...
Health Education England surveyed the inclusion of competencies developed by the Government’s expert advisory committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) and Public Health England (PHE) into health professional curricula...