The Association of Anaesthetists
@assocanaes.bsky.social
Every anaesthetist aims to keep their patients safe. We aim to safeguard every anaesthetist.
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We’re gathering the top clinical challenges in anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, and pain management to steer future AI research, investment and collaboration across our specialty.
Suggest your clinical pain points before the survey closes 👉 buff.ly/vBf5CVb
Suggest your clinical pain points before the survey closes 👉 buff.ly/vBf5CVb
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We’re gathering the top clinical challenges in anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, and pain management to steer future AI research, investment and collaboration across our specialty.
Suggest your clinical pain points before the survey closes 👉 buff.ly/vBf5CVb
Suggest your clinical pain points before the survey closes 👉 buff.ly/vBf5CVb
Thank you to everyone who attended the Irish Standing Committee Annual Symposium in Dublin on Saturday! It was a great morning of CPD and prize presentations. Congratulations to the winners of the oral presentation prize: Dr Evelyn Scott, Dr Andrew Kelly and Dr Yulia Gamper
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended the Irish Standing Committee Annual Symposium in Dublin on Saturday! It was a great morning of CPD and prize presentations. Congratulations to the winners of the oral presentation prize: Dr Evelyn Scott, Dr Andrew Kelly and Dr Yulia Gamper
Join us in London or online for our Hip fracture care seminar.
Covering topics such as: Surgical options and potential controversies surrounding hip fracture surgery; Enhanced recovery for hip fracture care; and more.
📆 Tuesday 9 December 2025
📍 21 Portland Place & online
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Covering topics such as: Surgical options and potential controversies surrounding hip fracture surgery; Enhanced recovery for hip fracture care; and more.
📆 Tuesday 9 December 2025
📍 21 Portland Place & online
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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Join us in London or online for our Hip fracture care seminar.
Covering topics such as: Surgical options and potential controversies surrounding hip fracture surgery; Enhanced recovery for hip fracture care; and more.
📆 Tuesday 9 December 2025
📍 21 Portland Place & online
👉 buff.ly/8Z4EJNy
Covering topics such as: Surgical options and potential controversies surrounding hip fracture surgery; Enhanced recovery for hip fracture care; and more.
📆 Tuesday 9 December 2025
📍 21 Portland Place & online
👉 buff.ly/8Z4EJNy
The Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group (SALG), have published the latest edition of their Patient Safety Update (PSU)
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The Patient Safety Updates contain important learning from incidents reported to the Learning From Patient Safety Events system.
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The Patient Safety Updates contain important learning from incidents reported to the Learning From Patient Safety Events system.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group (SALG), have published the latest edition of their Patient Safety Update (PSU)
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The Patient Safety Updates contain important learning from incidents reported to the Learning From Patient Safety Events system.
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The Patient Safety Updates contain important learning from incidents reported to the Learning From Patient Safety Events system.
Our next mentoring training courses are taking place in February and March 2026. This is your chance to grow your leadership skills and support your colleagues.
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our next mentoring training courses are taking place in February and March 2026. This is your chance to grow your leadership skills and support your colleagues.
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
We've teamed up with the Royal College of Anaesthetists to explore Less Than Full-Time (LTFT) Training in Anaesthesia and ICM from the perspectives of both residents and trainers. Join us online this December and receive 20% off when using code LTFT20.
Wednesday 10 December
Online
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Wednesday 10 December
Online
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November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We've teamed up with the Royal College of Anaesthetists to explore Less Than Full-Time (LTFT) Training in Anaesthesia and ICM from the perspectives of both residents and trainers. Join us online this December and receive 20% off when using code LTFT20.
Wednesday 10 December
Online
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Wednesday 10 December
Online
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We're pleased to announce that Professor Henrietta Hughes OBE, the first Patient Safety Commissioner, will be joining the Winter Scientific Meeting 2026 programme as a keynote speaker.
📆 15 - 16 January
📍 QEII Centre, London and online
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📆 15 - 16 January
📍 QEII Centre, London and online
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November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We're pleased to announce that Professor Henrietta Hughes OBE, the first Patient Safety Commissioner, will be joining the Winter Scientific Meeting 2026 programme as a keynote speaker.
📆 15 - 16 January
📍 QEII Centre, London and online
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📆 15 - 16 January
📍 QEII Centre, London and online
🎫 buff.ly/UYRkhNd
The November issue of our member magazine, Anaesthesia News, is out now!
It includes an incredible feature from British Antarctic Survey doctor, Katherine Ganly, who spent 526 days in one of the most remote places on Earth ➡️ buff.ly/CRdzo2D
It includes an incredible feature from British Antarctic Survey doctor, Katherine Ganly, who spent 526 days in one of the most remote places on Earth ➡️ buff.ly/CRdzo2D
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The November issue of our member magazine, Anaesthesia News, is out now!
It includes an incredible feature from British Antarctic Survey doctor, Katherine Ganly, who spent 526 days in one of the most remote places on Earth ➡️ buff.ly/CRdzo2D
It includes an incredible feature from British Antarctic Survey doctor, Katherine Ganly, who spent 526 days in one of the most remote places on Earth ➡️ buff.ly/CRdzo2D
At 11:00 the Association will join the Armistice Day two-minute silence to honour all who have fought and died for our country.
We also pay tribute to the anaesthetists and medical teams who bring care and comfort in conflicts.
(1/2) #RemembranceDay
We also pay tribute to the anaesthetists and medical teams who bring care and comfort in conflicts.
(1/2) #RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
At 11:00 the Association will join the Armistice Day two-minute silence to honour all who have fought and died for our country.
We also pay tribute to the anaesthetists and medical teams who bring care and comfort in conflicts.
(1/2) #RemembranceDay
We also pay tribute to the anaesthetists and medical teams who bring care and comfort in conflicts.
(1/2) #RemembranceDay
We are wearing odd socks to celebrate our differences and to help end bullying. Bullying doesn’t just happen in schools. If you’re being bullied talk to your manager, supervisor or someone in the HR team.
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#AntiBullyingWeek
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#AntiBullyingWeek
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are wearing odd socks to celebrate our differences and to help end bullying. Bullying doesn’t just happen in schools. If you’re being bullied talk to your manager, supervisor or someone in the HR team.
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#AntiBullyingWeek
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#AntiBullyingWeek
Next week, we'll be talking all things EEG with a brand new bootcamp. Understand the application of pEEG in anaesthetic practice, its role in delirium prevention, and hear about common pEEG artefacts by leading industry experts.
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
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📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Next week, we'll be talking all things EEG with a brand new bootcamp. Understand the application of pEEG in anaesthetic practice, its role in delirium prevention, and hear about common pEEG artefacts by leading industry experts.
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
🎫 buff.ly/qZr2LI1
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
🎫 buff.ly/qZr2LI1
A full house at today's Joint Association/ @rcoanews.bsky.social Wellbeing Leads Seminar 🌟
Covering working conditions, resident doctor wellbeing, lessons from organisational psychology, and more! We look forward to hearing different perspectives at this afternoon's group discussions.
Covering working conditions, resident doctor wellbeing, lessons from organisational psychology, and more! We look forward to hearing different perspectives at this afternoon's group discussions.
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A full house at today's Joint Association/ @rcoanews.bsky.social Wellbeing Leads Seminar 🌟
Covering working conditions, resident doctor wellbeing, lessons from organisational psychology, and more! We look forward to hearing different perspectives at this afternoon's group discussions.
Covering working conditions, resident doctor wellbeing, lessons from organisational psychology, and more! We look forward to hearing different perspectives at this afternoon's group discussions.
Our next mentoring training courses are taking place in February and March 2026. This is your chance to grow your leadership skills and support your colleagues.
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our next mentoring training courses are taking place in February and March 2026. This is your chance to grow your leadership skills and support your colleagues.
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
More info 🔗 buff.ly/GYVTxdK
It’s Patient Blood Management Awareness Week #PBMAW2025
Our popular, long-running seminar Bleeding, Clotting and Haemorrhage is taking place on Thursday 11 December 📆
Find out more and book 👉 buff.ly/KroSXQj
Thank you to our exhibitors: Haemonetics, Octapharma, Werfen and Pharmacosmos
Our popular, long-running seminar Bleeding, Clotting and Haemorrhage is taking place on Thursday 11 December 📆
Find out more and book 👉 buff.ly/KroSXQj
Thank you to our exhibitors: Haemonetics, Octapharma, Werfen and Pharmacosmos
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It’s Patient Blood Management Awareness Week #PBMAW2025
Our popular, long-running seminar Bleeding, Clotting and Haemorrhage is taking place on Thursday 11 December 📆
Find out more and book 👉 buff.ly/KroSXQj
Thank you to our exhibitors: Haemonetics, Octapharma, Werfen and Pharmacosmos
Our popular, long-running seminar Bleeding, Clotting and Haemorrhage is taking place on Thursday 11 December 📆
Find out more and book 👉 buff.ly/KroSXQj
Thank you to our exhibitors: Haemonetics, Octapharma, Werfen and Pharmacosmos
Members can get 35% off anaesthesia books with Scion Publishing. Even better, some of the proceeds will be donated to SAFE, our initiative with WFSA to bring safe anaesthesia around the world 📚 buff.ly/VewY47O
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Members can get 35% off anaesthesia books with Scion Publishing. Even better, some of the proceeds will be donated to SAFE, our initiative with WFSA to bring safe anaesthesia around the world 📚 buff.ly/VewY47O
#NationalStressAwarenessDay
‘Medicine has become a battlefield. Low morale, intense workloads, decreasing resources, and exposure to trauma and high stress all mean healthcare and emergency services staff are under pressure like never before.’
Read the Baker's Dozen toolkit 🔗 buff.ly/HTZV0EJ
‘Medicine has become a battlefield. Low morale, intense workloads, decreasing resources, and exposure to trauma and high stress all mean healthcare and emergency services staff are under pressure like never before.’
Read the Baker's Dozen toolkit 🔗 buff.ly/HTZV0EJ
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
#NationalStressAwarenessDay
‘Medicine has become a battlefield. Low morale, intense workloads, decreasing resources, and exposure to trauma and high stress all mean healthcare and emergency services staff are under pressure like never before.’
Read the Baker's Dozen toolkit 🔗 buff.ly/HTZV0EJ
‘Medicine has become a battlefield. Low morale, intense workloads, decreasing resources, and exposure to trauma and high stress all mean healthcare and emergency services staff are under pressure like never before.’
Read the Baker's Dozen toolkit 🔗 buff.ly/HTZV0EJ
This is why Dr Chloe Fairbairns is a trustee 🌟
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is why Dr Chloe Fairbairns is a trustee 🌟
#TrusteesWeek
Felicity Cooper has a background in finance and helps us on the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment Committee.
See why she became an independent lay trustee ⬇️
Felicity Cooper has a background in finance and helps us on the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment Committee.
See why she became an independent lay trustee ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#TrusteesWeek
Felicity Cooper has a background in finance and helps us on the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment Committee.
See why she became an independent lay trustee ⬇️
Felicity Cooper has a background in finance and helps us on the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment Committee.
See why she became an independent lay trustee ⬇️
#TrusteesWeek
This is why Dr Tony Thomas enjoys being a trustee ⬇️
This is why Dr Tony Thomas enjoys being a trustee ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#TrusteesWeek
This is why Dr Tony Thomas enjoys being a trustee ⬇️
This is why Dr Tony Thomas enjoys being a trustee ⬇️
Dr Stuart Burgess is an independent lay trustee and International Relations Committee lay member. See why he volunteers with us ⬇️
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteesWeek
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Dr Stuart Burgess is an independent lay trustee and International Relations Committee lay member. See why he volunteers with us ⬇️
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteesWeek
It’s the time of year when we celebrate the amazing contribution made by trustees to charities. Thank you to our board of trustees for their time, effort and commitment. #TrusteesWeek
Below, some of our trustees have shared why they volunteer for the Association.
Below, some of our trustees have shared why they volunteer for the Association.
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It’s the time of year when we celebrate the amazing contribution made by trustees to charities. Thank you to our board of trustees for their time, effort and commitment. #TrusteesWeek
Below, some of our trustees have shared why they volunteer for the Association.
Below, some of our trustees have shared why they volunteer for the Association.
Association President, Dr Tim Meek, has responded to the
@rcoanews.bsky.social Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025.
Read it now 🔗 buff.ly/YxrtNIE
@rcoanews.bsky.social Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025.
Read it now 🔗 buff.ly/YxrtNIE
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Association President, Dr Tim Meek, has responded to the
@rcoanews.bsky.social Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025.
Read it now 🔗 buff.ly/YxrtNIE
@rcoanews.bsky.social Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025.
Read it now 🔗 buff.ly/YxrtNIE
Book your place at Anaesthesia Research 2025, taking place in Birmingham 27 to 28 November.
A must for anyone involved in anaesthesia research, this is your opportunity to engage with the future of anaesthesia.
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/bHRWqrI
A must for anyone involved in anaesthesia research, this is your opportunity to engage with the future of anaesthesia.
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/bHRWqrI
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Book your place at Anaesthesia Research 2025, taking place in Birmingham 27 to 28 November.
A must for anyone involved in anaesthesia research, this is your opportunity to engage with the future of anaesthesia.
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/bHRWqrI
A must for anyone involved in anaesthesia research, this is your opportunity to engage with the future of anaesthesia.
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/bHRWqrI
There is still time to book for our brand new seminar – The EEG Bootcamp! This interactive seminar will cover the use of pEEG and depth of anaesthetic monitors in clinical practice.
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
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📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
🎫 buff.ly/PK51Lu9
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
There is still time to book for our brand new seminar – The EEG Bootcamp! This interactive seminar will cover the use of pEEG and depth of anaesthetic monitors in clinical practice.
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
🎫 buff.ly/PK51Lu9
📆 Wednesday 19 November
📍 21 Portland Place, London
🎫 buff.ly/PK51Lu9
Adopting the recommendations in NHS England's Medical Training Review could save medical training in the UK.
Read our full statement ✍️ buff.ly/UbEIeOo
Read our full statement ✍️ buff.ly/UbEIeOo
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Adopting the recommendations in NHS England's Medical Training Review could save medical training in the UK.
Read our full statement ✍️ buff.ly/UbEIeOo
Read our full statement ✍️ buff.ly/UbEIeOo