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The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the publication of the NHS Interim People Plan. Some of the proposals align well with workstreams we are undertaking, including leadership, lifelong careers and training flexibility (through the curriculum review).
It is positive to see focus on the following areas:
The priority
"Transferring critically ill patients who may be suffering with several problems requiring multi organ support requires exceptional planning and requires the staff to be highly trained."
Dr Carl Waldmann, FICM Dean
On behalf of the Intensive Care Society (ICS) and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) we are delighted to...
The Faculty’s End of Life Working Party has now released Care at the End of Life: A guide to best practice, discussions and decision-making in and around critical care for open consultation.
This document aims to cover a range of best practice guidance around decision-making at the end of...
The Faculty welcome the publication of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch’s (HSIB) new report Recognising and Responding to Critically Unwell Patients which covers an important area.
We welcome the recommendation to develop a National Deterioration Board and look forward to being part of this work, which...
The Faculty is pleased to have been on the writing group for the Academy of Medical Royal College's (AoMRC) 'Acting as an expert or professional witness: Guidance for healthcare professionals'. We fully support the document, which has now been released. The document provides a useful resource for identifying...
Please click on the document below to view the joint statement from the Faculty and the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board regarding the Internal Medicine Curriculum and Intensive Care Medicine Training.
Should you have any questions regarding this please do not hesitate to contact us: contact@ficm.ac.uk
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 South West peninsula region, and this took place at Taunton Racecource...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine are delighted to announce a brand new initiative, the Women in Intensive Care Medicine Emerging Leadership (WICMEL) Programme. The WICMEL programme is designed to develop the leadership skills of female consultant and staff/associate specialist grade doctors through mentoring from senior members of the Faculty...
The Faculty office will be closed and the Faculty administrative team will be unavailable from 5pm 18 April 2019 until 9am 23rd April 2019. If you wish to contact FICM during this time please use contact@ficm.ac.uk and email us with your query.
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The National Institute for Heathcare Excellence (NICE) recently published guidance (March 2018) recommending the Thopaz+ portable digital system for managing chest drains. NICE has now published a new adoption resource to help put this guidance in to practice.
The technology: Thopaz+
Thopaz+ (Medela...