NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention. At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem. Let’s dig deeper:

Anaesthetic Recruitment 2021. The one where they told people they had jobs, then told them they didn't. The one where they got the 'rank' and 'score' values muddled up on a spreadsheet. We found out how it happened. bit.ly/2021mistakes

10th East Midlands Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Hybrid Conference This exclusive event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 10th and 11th October 2023 in Nottingham, again bringing to you a strong, credible, and exceptional faculty of ladies and gentlemen

Coming to you this October, Midlands Medical will be celebrating its 10th anniversary of Medical Conferences. With over 400 participants already registered, we welcome you to join us this 10th and 11thOctober. Join us now at the Crowne Plaza in Nottingham!

World Sepsis Day is 13 September, so we're marking the occasion with a FREE webinar on 14 September supported by bioMérieux. We'll be asking the big questions, like do we give too much fluid? with Mervyn Singer, Jules Wendon & Julian Bion. Register at bit.ly/ICS_Sepsis

Unbelievable views from a recently retired Consultant Anaesthetist & Intensivist. There’s some things in medicine that we do have to toughen up to, but being sexually assaulted at work is not one of them!

We’ve plateaued with emergency laparotomy mortality. Where should we focus, support for frail patients and geriatrician involvement shows improvement’s. BPT available to support perioperative frailty team reviews. #CCPOM23 #NELA Midlands Medical Conferences CIC (Not for Profit)

A stark reminder of the harm of modified release opioids by Nicholas Levy “we need to remove them from our perioperative pathways” I’d also missed the Centre for Perioperative Care statement #CCPOM2023 cpoc.org.uk/sites/cpoc/fil…

Essential reading for anyone that works in intensive care/anaesthetics/ED/PHEM

🤔 If you could change one thing to make critical care better, what would it be? Get rid of ward rounds? Get rid of alarms? Go paper free?

Final FRCA done! Hurrah, thankful that I will never have to memorise the SVP of halothane again

UCLH 'Caring for the Critically Ill Haem Patient' study day is back on May 21st with all new topics. Covering myeloma/lymphoma emergencies, major haemorrhage, new SACT, the microbiome, CCOT, fungal infections, TYA and more! Register for free here: bit.ly/49tLecg

Every year ‘The Cauldron’ delivers!!! Worth getting to your seat early to make sure you get a good spot. Looking forward to it. #SOA24 Intensive Care Society 💙

ORCA at State of the Art #SOA24 Intensive Care Society 💙 Come visit us in the innovation zone & try out our quiz! Whoever gets the highest score in the shortest time will win an amazing 50% off either Leeds FUSIC, LACE: Advanced TTE, or LACE: fTOE Manoj Wickramasinghe Alex Small Max Ridley

Looking forward to 3 days of learning and networking! Don’t forget to join our session for trainees and new consultants in mini theatre 1 today @ 3.30 #SOA24 Intensive Care Society 💙 Andy Breen Alex Small

Great first session @ #SOA24 really thought provoking discussion around consciousness from following commands to imaging markers to AI

The panel discussing the elephant in the room with Prof Colin R Melville regarding PA & AAs @ #SOA24 Whilst we may disagree on the best solution Prof Melville does at least open himself up to challenge and listen.

The concept of next of kin is a very damaging mythology Coma Research at #SOA24 May lead to families feeling they are responsible for treatment decisions - and decisions not to treat - in those with severe brain injury

What would you do if this were a man? Detecting and preventing Maternal death from cardiac causes.#SOA24 Katie Cranfield Debbie Horner

The 2024 PAG elections are now live! There are places open across 8 of our PAGs and nominations are open until the 4th of October. Joining our PAGs is a great way to be involved in shaping the Society in 2024 - find out how to nominate below👇 bit.ly/PAGnoms