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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...
This week the Faculty launched the 2019 ICM Workforce Census. The Census provides the Faculty with quantifiable data and insight into the ICM Workforce. More information about the Census can be found in the dedicated section of the website here.
Whilst the Faculty have taken every step to ensure that...
The Royal College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine are closely monitoring the situation regarding Vyaire’s announcement on 13 March 2019 of their product recall of the enFlow® Fluid Warming System Disposable Cartridges. This follows the alert raised by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory...
Background to the current logo
The current logo consists of the text ‘The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine’ in teal (colour) and Candara (font) (as below). We have established teal as the FICM colour (with green and turquoise as background colours). We stopped using the crests and logos of our 8...
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...