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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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The British Medical Association has released 'Working in the peri-retirment peiord: possible changes to working practices'. This guidance explores some of the key drivers for consultants leaving the workforce and sets out ways in which employers can support consultants and to retain them in the workforce. This guidance focuses...
The Faculty is proud to be a stakeholder in the seventh National Audit Project (NAP7). This NAP, which is focusing on perioperative cardiac arrest, launched on 16 June 2021. The NAPs focus on rare but serious patient complications.
NAP7 will collect data for one year. The project involves a...
The Faculty is delighted to launch its Critical Staffing series, developed by the Careers, Recruitment and Workforce Committee. We would like to thank everyone that contributed to this project. We hope you find the documents useful.
ARCPs in 2021
The GMC has recently published an update confirming the continued use of the approved Covid curriculum derogations for ARCPs this year with some useful detail around flexibility. We have updated our ARCP Guidance and Decision Aid for panels for 2021 to allow for the continued use of the...
As part of the joint FICM/CPOC Guidance on Establishing and Delivering Enhanced Perioperative Care Services, a means of passporting staff with generic transferrable skills was identified by the working party. A short life-working group led by Dr Michael Bannon, Lead Dean for ICM, developed the initial version.
This suite of multi-professional...
The Faculty was pleased to co-sign a letter addressed to the Secretary of State calling for better access to mental health treatment and support for healthcare workers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on an already stretched workforce with a substantial proportion of healthcare staff severely exhausted and stressed.
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ICUsteps launches the #RehabIsCritical Campaign to demand improved services for intensive care patients after leaving hospital.
On Wednesday 21st April 2021, on National ICU Rehabilitation Day, ICUsteps will launch a community rehabilitation campaign #RehabIsCritical to demand improved care for intensive care patients when they leave hospital.
Many intensive care patients do not...
To all applicants for ICM National Recruitment this year
The 2021 ICM Recruitment round has been difficult. As the organising bodies of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Health Education England West Midlands (HEEWM) co-ordinating the process, we acknowledge and accept there will be many unsuccessful applicants this year who...
The MHRA has just issued a Patient Safety Alert regarding sterility issues with Becton Dickinson (BD) Alaris infusion and related products. BD have notified the MHRA that the sterility of some of their devices cannot be guaranteed due to quality issues with their third-party sterilisation provider.
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