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The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) is conducting a survey on the quality of care provided for young people on long-term ventilation (LTV) aged between 0-24. NCEPOD will then produce a report for clinicians and other professionals about how to improve their care and will also produce guidance for...
The FICM representative to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) Wales and Workforce Lead, Dr Jack Parry-Jones has co-signed an open letter to Welsh Government and Welsh Health Boards to encourage them to look favourably on requests for professional leave, especially from doctors in training, for them...
Opportunities to be a Specialist Committee member of the NICE Diagnostics Advisory Committee for the NephroCheck test.
The Diagnostics Assessment programme is now recruiting healthcare professionals to join the Diagnostics Advisory Committee as Specialist Committee members for the NephroCheck Test, with expertise in the following areas:
• Consultant in intensive care/critical care...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the publication of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch’s (HSIB) report on the Transfer of Critically Ill Adults, and notes how important a well-functioning critical care network can be for transfers and general cross-regional support and development.
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In 2017, the Faculty launched the e-ICM...
The FICM Training, Assessment and Quality Committee (FICMTAQ) publishes an annual report on quality data collected and reviewed during the previous training year, and we are pleased to advise the QA Annual report covering 2018 has just been launched.
Please click here to see the full report, and previous reports are also...
Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs) are intended to recognise and reward exceptional contribution over and above what is normally expected in a post. The awards are made to medically or dentally qualified NHS consultants for a fixed term and may be renewed following review.
In England national CEA awards are...
The Faculty welcomes the release of NHS England’s Long Term Plan (LTP), which sets out a vision for the next 10 years of the NHS in England. This comes after the announcement in 2018 of £20.5 billion of additional funding.
Of particular note:
Workforce. The recognition of the need for
Background
When the Faculty was established, a route of Foundation Fellowship was opened for a period of 12 months to admit all those currently practicing as consultants in ICM. Following the end of Foundation Fellowship, the Faculty Board agreed there would need to be an additional transitional period of entry into...
