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Critical Futures is a long term project commissioned through the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Its aim is to take forward a suite of work streams that analyse and respond to anticipated changes and pressures on critical care and related services.
The Faculty is pleased to launch the first step on...
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Ratcliffe who has been elected as the new FICM Deputy Trainee Representative.
The appointment is for two years and will begin in January 2018, Dr Ratcliffe will act as Deputy Trainee Rep for the first year and will then take over as Lead Trainee Rep in January 2019.
Thank you to all those who stood in...
NELA statement by FICM
The Third Patients’ Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) has been published today
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine fully supports the recommendations of this report to improve the outcome of this group of patients. FICM notes that 78% of patients are already admitted to critical...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine is deeply disappointed by the recommendations in the consultation document released today on the Regulation of Medical Associate Professions in the UK which conclude that Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs), Physician Assistants (Anaesthesia) and Surgical Care Practitioners do not need formal regulation.
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There are nine nominees for the FICM Trainee Representative election 2017:
(candidates listed by date nomination received)
To see full election statements please click here.
All those eligible to vote have been sent an
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the Future of Health research report produced through the Department of Health (and analysed independently by RAND Europe).
Many of the themes raised throughout will come as no surprise to critical care staff, who experience these growing issues in the present. The report...
The Faculty welcomes the Department of Health’s announcement regarding measures to improve sepsis, identification, tracking and prevention
Any measures which aim to help patients and healthcare professionals tackle sepsis should be applauded.
The new measures include:
2017 Curriculum updates
The following changes have been approved by the GMC:
Quality Improvement
The requirement to undertake Audits have been replaced by participation in a Quality Improvement project, this is to reflect a general shift in undertaking QI projects rather than audits across specialties.
Removal of expanded case summaries:
Expanded case summaries have
The FICM are holding an election for six vacancies on the FICM Board, please click here for further details.
We are also holding an election for a new FICM Trainee Representative, please click here for further details...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the report from the Shape of Training Steering Group. The key principles of broad based and responsive training are central to the Faculty’s view of how ICM training should be designed. Although the report was crafted prior to our meeting with the Shape...