🧵 From @rcoanews.bsky.social: The Anaesthetic Workforce 2024: UK State of the Nation Report is out now.
The UK has a shortfall of 1,900 anaesthetists, which prevents around 1.4 million operations and procedures from taking place each year.
Read the report in full👉 https://ow.ly/2q3G50UaHkO
The UK has a shortfall of 1,900 anaesthetists, which prevents around 1.4 million operations and procedures from taking place each year.
Read the report in full👉 https://ow.ly/2q3G50UaHkO
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There are around 10,500 consultant and SAS anaesthetists working in the NHS across the UK.
With only 14 anaesthetists per 100,000 people, the UK falls behind other high-income European nations such as Germany, which has 37.
This year, there were 3,520 applications for an available 540 core anaesthetic training places and 640 applications for 390 higher training places.
Read them in full 👉 https://ow.ly/2q3G50UaHkO
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