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FICM welcome the release of the NCEPOD report on Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation and Dr John Butler, FICM representative, has prepared the following summary of the report.
Inspiring Change: A review of the quality of care provided to patients receiving acute non-invasive ventilation.
NCEPOD Report 2017
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes this report...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the recent letter to employers sent by the GMC, NHS England and the Chief Medical Officers of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
We strongly support its call for employers to look favourably on requests from doctors applying for absence in order to...
In June 2017 The ACCP Sub-Committee was approached by Ms Jennifer Wilson (Trainee ACCP) with a request to assist in the distribution of a new survey of ACCPs looking into job satisfaction and levels of burnout amongst Advanced Critical Care Practicioners.
Ms Wilson will be coordinating the survey results and presenting the findings.
For...
NICE and SCIE have just publised a quick guide to support implementation of the Quality Standard on Transition from Children's to Adults' Services. The guide is based on the guideline and quality standard for this topic and explains how early planning and access to the right information can help young people...
Thank you to all of those who have completed this year's Census so far.
We really cannot stress enough how important this information is to the Faculty and its Workforce projects.
As soon as the survey closes on the 5th July 2017, work will begin on presenting the findings to you,...
Since late 2015 the Faculty has been undertaking local workforce engagements, designed to bring together stakeholders from across a region to build up a picture of both key local workforce messages and Trust-level projection data.
The fourth Regional Workforce Engagment Meeting was arranged for the Yorkshire and Humber region, and this took place in...
ICM/Anaesthesia Dual CCT Training
Specialist Modules Joint Statement
It has been written into both curricula that training in stage 2 ICM/higher anaesthesia specialist modules should be dual counted for both programmes and that the requirements are flexible so that Dual trainees can pick up these competencies in either their anaesthesia attachment...
On 30th May 2017, the Supreme Court refused permission to the appellant to appeal in this case. The statement previously published on behalf of the FICM and ICS has been updated to reflect this decision. You can see the original news item here.
For the second consecutive year the Faculty of Intensive care Medicine, in conjunction with the NIHR Clinical Research Network, are offering two awards which aim to recognise outstanding contributions from NHS Clinicians to the conduct of NIHR Clinical Research Network portfolio research studies.
There are two awards, funded by FICM, with a...
The Academic Centre for Medical Education at UCL is working with the GMC to reviewFitness to Practise procedures and update the assessments to ensure each assessment is fair to the doctor being assessed. To do this, UCL and the GMC are holding validation events for new assessment material and are looking for interested and...