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Posted: 13 December 2018

Clinically-assisted Nutrition and Hydration Guidance

The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcome the publication of Clinically-assisted Nutrition and Hydration Guidance. FICM also contributed to the consultation on this guidance which should help facilitate best interests decision-making for patients. It updates current guidance about life-sustaining treatment from British Medical Association, General Medical Council and the...

Posted: 11 December 2018

Looking at the Future of Surgery

The Faculty welcomes the release of report the Future of Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons. The report was launched on 07 December 2018. The interactive dashboard for the report can be found here and the full report is available here. The Future of Surgery focuses on new technologies and their...

Posted: 7 December 2018

End of Life Working Party comment published in BMJ

Dr Joe Cosgrove and Dr Chris Bassford, on behalf of the FICM End of Life Working Party, have written an open comment in the BMJ following on from a recent article “Intensive care: balancing risk and benefit to facilitate informed decisions” (BMJ: Gross, Fade, Brett). The commentary indicates...

Posted: 6 December 2018

Critical illness and Prescribing Survey

Barbara Philips (reader in Intensive Care Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School) is requesting your participation in a brief survey.

In collaboration with ...

Posted: 12 November 2018

Board and Committee Opportunities

There are lots of way to get involved with the Faculty. Currently we have vacancies in FICMPAS and LEPU. Please see below for more details on these exciting opportunities.

The FICM Professional Affairs and Standards Committee

The FICM Professional Affairs and Standards Committee (FICMPAS) is looking for a number of new members....

Posted: 5 November 2018

Revalidation Guidance

The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine is undertaking some review work on its revalidation guidance and is particularly interested in hearing from consultant members about local processes regarding patient feedback.

We would be grateful if you could please complete this short survey so we are as informed as possible about your current local...

Posted: 26 October 2018

GPICS V2

Version 2 of the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS V2) is now available for public consultation. The consultation window will close at 9am on Monday 19^th November. Comments will not be accepted after this time.

The consultation draft can be found here.

An earlier draft of...

Posted: 19 October 2018

RCP London report 'Talking about dying' published today

The Faculty welcomes today’s published report from the RCP London: Talking about dying: How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead and we are pleased to have contributed to the expert round-table discussions that fed its content.

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Posted: 18 October 2018

5 Million pounds funding towards managing winter pressures on critical care for Wales

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...

Posted: 12 October 2018

FICM response to the introduction of statutory regulation of PAs and PA(A)s.

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...

Posted: 12 October 2018

Advanced Critical Care Practitioners Sub-Committee are seeking new Consultant members

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...

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