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Help us test our new website navigation for the chance to win a £150 John Lewis voucher 💰 🔗https://buff.ly/uSy8Att

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We can’t wait for Resident Doctors Conference 2025 🥳 Keynote speaker, Dr Mathew Newport, will discuss working for UK-Med in some of the most dangerous conflicts in the world, including 6 months in Gaza. Book before 15 May to save 💰 buff.ly/nF38OMb 🗓️ London 26 -27 June 2025

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We’re happy to have Patient Safety Commissioner Henrietta Hughes @pscommissioner.bsky.social speaking to our Board today. The Patient Safety Principles act as a guide for healthcare leaders on how to deliver safer care for patients and reduce avoidable harm: buff.ly/4fyyAMt

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📸 Pictured is our February advocacy update (1/3) Thanks to our members we can hold meetings with key stakeholders – including politicians and other medical organisations – to make sure the specialty is represented in new policy developments and legislation.

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Its rotation month & new residents are adjusting—how can you help? Here's five ways you can support! 🩺Offer guidance on solo working 📚 Recommend trusted learning resources 💙 Check in on their wellbeing 👥 Encourage mentoring & peer support 🔗 Connect them with the Association of Anaesthetists

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Submit an abstract to present your work at Annual Congress 2025 ✨ 🔗 https://buff.ly/4bbcePJ Alongside our usual categories, we are introducing 'Education and training'. Submit by 7 May 2025 for this opportunity to enhance your portfolio, get published in Anaesthesia, and win cash prizes 💰

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Are you a medical student considering specialising in anaesthesia? Maybe you’re wondering what an anaesthetist does or how to become one. Our ‘Who is the anaesthetist?’ guideline introduces the specialty for anyone interested in learning more about anaesthesia https://buff.ly/4k0BfB5

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Apply for a research grant 💰 Applications are now open for two research grants offering up to £50,000 and £100,000 per project. 📅 Deadline: Friday 25 April 2025 Apply here https://buff.ly/4i0mqwC

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Missed our abstract submission deadline but still want to present your work at Resident Doctors Conference 2025? 🖼️ We are re-opening submissions until 26 March 2025, with some key differences for late submissions. Find more info 🔗 https://buff.ly/3DH4ckK #anaesthesia

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Will you be near Cambridge on Friday 28 March? 📍 Why not book our Core Topics Meeting to earn CPD and keep up to date with the latest in anaesthesia. 🔗 https://buff.ly/40u8PXf

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It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧬 
 Members can watch ‘Women in anaesthesia leadership’ by Dr Kathleen Ferguson to gain the tools and resources for gender parity in healthcare professions, particularly leadership roles. tinyurl.com/2xk8zhb3

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It’s the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬

This day celebrates the contributions of women and girls in STEM and advocates for gender equality in the scientific community.

Thanks to United Nations and Kings College London for these facts. 
#womeninscience

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The upcoming International Day of Women and Girls in Science inspires us to reflect on the historical contributions of women to anaesthesia. 💻 Join our online talk as we explore their impact from 1950, including key regulation for the NHS. ➡️ https://buff.ly/3CTk43t #womeninscience #girlsinstem

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(1/3) We are deeply saddened to learn that Dr Jannicke Mellin-Olsen died on 6 Feb 2025. It is hard to exaggerate Dr Mellin-Olsen's contribution to anaesthesia and anybody who has heard her speak will have found her story incredible, moving and inspirational.

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🚨 We have vacancies on the Resident Doctors Committee. @anaesresidents.bsky.social Are you passionate about improving anaesthetic training and advocating for your peers? Stand for election ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Ez8jQw

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Calling all anaesthetists near Nottingham! 📍 Don’t miss our Core Topics Meeting close to you. Look forward to a day of CPD and networking on Thursday 13 March 2025. 🔗 https://buff.ly/40PPyB0

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Read the @assocanaes.bsky.social latest guidance on unhealthy alcohol intake, plus more resources on reducing alcohol consumption 👇 cpoc.org.uk/guidelines-a...

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A new version of the Green Theatre Checklist and Compendium will be released on 19 February. Created by the intercollegiate sustainability in surgery groups & endorsed by the College and @assocanaes.bsky.social. Learn more at this @rcsed.bsky.social webinar 👇 ow.ly/xk8V50UTSRx

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At some point in our careers, we are all likely to be involved in a traumatic or catastrophic event that stops us in our tracks. We’ve created the Catastrophe Handbook to help you prepare & manage in the case of a such an event 👉 https://buff.ly/3WO7Z6J

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📍 Are you near Chester on Friday 7 March 2025? If so, come along to our Core Topics Meeting to earn CPD and keep up to date with the latest in anaesthesia. 🔗 https://buff.ly/4juPduJ

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We’ve recently launched six new guidelines, one of which is already being referenced by the UK Government's MHRA 🔗https://buff.ly/42xPt6d All guidelines can be downloaded from our website ➡️ https://buff.ly/3ElVQzp And will soon be available on our app 📲

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Final reminder 📣 Less than one week to go to submit your abstracts for the Resident Doctors Conference. This is a great opportunity for you to present your work to your peers, get published, develop your portfolio and win cash prizes 🏆 Learn more: https://buff.ly/3DH4ckK #Anaesthesia #RDC25

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Thank you @assocanaes.bsky.social & @gehealthcare.bsky.social for arranging last night’s RA webinar. Great to speak alongside Narcis Ungureanu, James Bowness & @jennyferry.bsky.social - brilliantly chaired by @rosiehogg.bsky.social To all who joined, I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! #RASky

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Here’s an advocacy update for January 😁 Members can find an extended version of this in their email inbox 📧 Each month we will share how our Advocacy Team are representing the views and concerns of anaesthetists. Watch our WSM policy debate highlights here 🔗 buff.ly/3CusE8M

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Our UK Competition Law Guidance explains how competition law impacts members engaged in independent practice within the UK private healthcare market. Association members can access here: https://buff.ly/40Cnxez Join the conversation on independent practice on Community: https://buff.ly/4hdkEIj

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📍 Are you near London on Friday 28 February 2025? Come along to our Core Topics Meeting to earn CPD and keep up to date with the latest in anaesthesia. By popular demand, we are pleased to welcome back speakers Simon Fleming and Andrew McKechnie. https://buff.ly/4aCmdNK

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Just two days left to apply for our £2000 grant 💰 Available to SAS/NCHD doctors at the Association, it will help towards education or professional development such as conferences, CPD courses, workshops and mentoring. Apply here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4jtCKY4

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Great to see @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social advocating for the wellbeing of doctors and using our findings from our #FightFatigue campaign. Find out more about fatigue, the risks, and access resources: ow.ly/5Aqw50AlKne

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Anaesthesia News January kicks off 2025 with a special issue on global anaesthesia 🌍 Members can read about the teaching of anaesthesia in Africa, South America and Asia. Or why not catch up on what happened at the GASOC Annual International Conference 2024? 🔗 https://buff.ly/4haXqCS

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Win £500 and an engraved medal by submitting an essay on the history of anaesthesia, intensive care or pain management 🏆 Available to residents, medical students, or FY only. 🗓️ Deadline is Wednesday 5 February 2025. 🔗 Find out more: https://buff.ly/4gccLBR

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📢 Your two week reminder to submit your abstracts for poster or oral presentation at Resident Doctors Conference, 26-27 June 2025. This is a great opportunity to get published in the world’s #1 journal in anaesthesiology 📚, win cash prizes, and boost your portfolio: https://buff.ly/3DH4ckK

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📣 Calling all SAS/NCHD doctors Apply for a £2000 grant to support your education or professional development. Hurry, the deadline is 23.59, Wednesday 29 Jan 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4jtCKY4 #anaesthesia

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Thanks to @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social for highlighting the findings of our #FightFatigue campaign last night in parliament. Our campaign revealed 50% of respondents had an accident or near miss driving home after a shift and 84% were too tired to drive. Our resources: https://buff.ly/3EfnmhM

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Congratulations to Jane Louise Orrock and Patrick Alexander Ward for winning Letter of the Month 📖 Read Anaesthesia News January here: https://buff.ly/3DY6lsz

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At this year’s Winter Scientific Meeting, the Association was thrilled to celebrate thirteen deserving individuals with honours and awards. 🏆 Learn more about the winners here 🔗 lnkd.in/eF7Bz7d5

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And that’s the end of Winter Scientific Meeting 2025! We hope you enjoyed 😁 Thank you to all the speakers and staff who made it such a success 🧡

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The innovation awards begin now in stream C, celebrating individuals who’ve made innovation in healthcare 🏆 Thanks to Intersurgical for sponsoring this session 😁

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🏆 Congratulations to #WSM2025’s ePoster presentation winners! ➡️ shorturl.at/1tU7y

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Association of Anaesthetists guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives 2024 doi.org/10.1111/anae... #AnSky #HaemSky #MedSky

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👏 Thunderous applause for Dr Rachel Clarke’s keynote speech on ‘Hope and hard truth in a post-pandemic NHS’. Our thanks to @doctoroxford.bsky.social for such a superb talk.

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Meet the membership team at the Association stand and try your luck in our basketball competition 🏀 Can you beat the score 113? #WSM2025

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It’s day 2 of our Winter Scientific Meeting 2025! ✨ It was great to see so many of you at the Winter Social yesterday, we hope you enjoyed the live music and magic show (pics below!) Keep an eye on our socials to see today’s activities 📲

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Don’t miss discussion of the Catastrophes Handbook, our guideline on how to navigate traumatic events📙 Taking place now in Stream C. #WSM2025

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Thanks to GE HealthCare for their ultrasound demo ✨ With guest speaker, Dr Jonny Wilkinson. #WSM2025

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📝The UK’s international medical graduates experience the worst levels of disadvantage… Thank you to the speakers of our diversity session for shedding light on the struggles of ethnic minority healthcare workers. #WSM2025 @sethina.bsky.social

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Join us on the 3rd floor, for a demo of Teleflex the Rusch EZ-Blocker, a one-lung ventilation product designed to enhance patient outcomes 🫁

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