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The new Allied Health Professions (AHP) Critical Care Capability framework is now out for public consultation, and we want you to have your say!

Consultation is open until 21 May, and all feedback can be given directly at bit.ly/AHPFramework.

📢 The new Allied Health Professions (AHP) Critical Care Capability framework now open for public consultation. NHS Elect & Intensive Care Society 💙

4️⃣ pillars of practice for 5️⃣ AHP across 6️⃣ nationally recognised levels of practice.

⏳Open until 21 May

More details ⤵️ Pls share widely

ESICM has an ICU pharmacy professionals working group. This is Richard S Bourne. One of my deputies and our medicines safety lead. join us ? Our next meeting 21.5, 10am CEST with Robert Oakley,Jason Roberts et al. #weareICU Jan De Waele MD

Intensive Care Medicine 4/🔹Less inappropriate medication: first steps in medication optimization to improve post-intensive care patient recovery 👉rdcu.be/dFBvy
🔹Relationship between the arterial partial pressure of CO2 & outcomes in MV-acute brain injured patients 👉 rdcu.be/dFBuW

“The language that we use… even in the question ‘Do we have a sick note culture?’ It’s cruel”

Chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale says the use of “performative” language needs to stop, and the government should show more 'compassion'

#bbcqt bbc.in/4b8DVY2

Our study on antipsychotics risks for dementia patients has been featured on the NIHR Research news alert.

🔗Read our full study here: bmj.com/content/385/bm…

nihr.ac.uk/news/antipsych…

Qualitative insights into patients and family members’ experiences of in-hospital medicines management after a critical care episode - CHEST Critical Care. Great work ⁦Richard S Bourne⁩ et al. We need to take time with patients and families re medication chestcc.org/article/S2949-…

3⃣ Richard S Bourne et al explore #ICU patient/family experience w meds management on transition to hospital wards: 💉💊

chestcc.org/article/S2949-…

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Yes

Who else remembers the total confusion in having to use noradrenaline with weights labelled as noradrenaline tartrate, when we all used noradrenaline base?

Or maybe you don’t remember

And would be caught out even now…

⬇️ ICU patient medication burden - 1st 🪜in Meds Optimisation to improve ICU patient recovery. Our take - Lisa Burry 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Pharmacy hero David Sapsford 💙 🇺🇦⛷️! Raising 💷💷💷 for the ICS👏. Congrats David and the Intensive Care Society 💙 ski touring team! Still time to sponsor, link👇🏼.

If you do one thing tonight please watch this

It will break your heart but it shows just how vital mental health support for NHS staff really is

Huge thanks to Frontline19 for helping 9,000 of us each week

Please watch, share and give them a follow 🙏

We couldn't be prouder of our Zermatt to Verbier team on completing their mammoth alpine trek on Saturday!

David Sapsford 💙 🇺🇦 , Hannah Swan, Jim Walmsley , Luke Stevens and Sean Bennett battled the ups and downs of the challenge together and have raised over £32,000 - incredible!

5 days left….

jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

A year of training, raising money and finalising my kit.

Tomorrow I fly to 🇨🇭 to ski from Zermatt to Verbier, 4 days, 60km, >4000m of accent, altitudes >3500m.

Collectively just short of £30,000 raised for the @ics_updates Thriving at Work Project.

Donate: Link in bio 🔗

These guys heading out shortly
Still time to sponsor
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Investment in clinical academia needed to deliver medical expansion | Medical Schools Council. Clinical academics exist in professions other than medicine. Personally, agree medics deserve higher salary. But clinical excellence awards should be for all. medschools.ac.uk/news/investmen…

For those panicking about a UK supply issue of #Pabrinex expected in a few months time*, there will be mitigations, including moves to get in parenteral thiamine which is the bit we need

Issue known because it was seen coming and comms have gone out

(*there is time to prepare)