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‘Maximising training opportunities & minimising the impact of rotational training within the ICM CCT training’ FICMNews guidance to make training more flexible for IiTs. Thanks Rosie Worrall, Waqas Akhtar & everyone involved for making this possible ficm.ac.uk/launch-of-new-…

The Intensive Care Society is deeply concerned by the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the naming of doctors involved in court of protection proceedings. Read our full statement below👇 bit.ly/supremecourtru…

Is this the time for FICMNews and Intensive Care Society 💙 to unify as professional organisations for intensive care medicine? A single unified and louder voice, enhancing collaboration and reducing duplication/cost for a stronger College of ICM in the UK journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

There is no plan 📝 Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe There must be a comprehensive workforce plan in 10 year NHS plan, 2nd LTWP and PG review Hold our national institutions to account - we cannot stand idly by as generation of doctors are failed by a broken system

The 2025 EuroELSO cannulation cup winners are Barcelona! ECMO Barcelona Eduard Argudo María Martínez Thank you to all the teams for sharing their experience in cannulation and ECPR teamwork!

Deadline this week. Exciting time to join BTPT and our council so please apply and get involved!!! Kaitlin Mayne Waqas Akhtar Hatty Douthwaite Hannah Gillespie Htet Htet Ei Khin Tina Thomson Ailish Nimmo

Doctors have been here before Pay, conditions, value, all being stripped away With a wage of £17ph, our govt isn’t fighting for us, so we have to ourselves Get ballot ready Join the BMA: Join.bma.org.uk Update your details Myaccount.bma.org.uk #BMABallotReady

Is medical training being broken by incompetence or intention? “There is no plan” & the situation is “threefold worse than the MMC crisis” Fantastic article 👇 More doctors need the courage to speak up & hold those responsible to account! Waqas Akhtar Vivek Trivedi 🫡

For the first time ever in the UK, we are bringing ECMO to the streets of London, offering hope to patients in cardiac arrest. londonsairambulance.org.uk/news-and-stori…

📣 Lots of important content from the UK IiT Survey in the FICMNews Quality Report 25 🥇curriculum request from residents: ultrasound HiLLO 6 amendment in line with 🇪🇺 has been requested to GMC Hope more residents who want to learn ultrasound can gain access in training!

Great day seeing friends and learning about LVAD, impella, Ecmo with Mechanical Life Support at Royal Brompton and Harefield with Waqas Akhtar #MLS #MCS #ECMO #ECLS highly recommend the MLS course

New safety checklists now published by the Society and FICM focusing on procedures commonly performed in ICUs. Find them in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society or download editable PDFs below. bit.ly/checklists25

We’re proud to spotlight Waqas Akhtar Consultant cardiologist at @rbandh, who participated at British Cardiovascular Society Follow us for more updates from the conference! #BCS2025

🔥 Prague ICU school and workshop 2025 is over. As every year, the biggest pleasure for me is the networking and meeting new friends from all around Europe. Thank you and see you back in Prague next year 🖐️

At Medicine 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming over 400 delegates in-person and over 1,000 more online. Professor Chris Whitty described the leading role physicians can play in the secondary prevention of ill-health while Dr Hatty Douthwaite, RCP Resident Doctor Committee deputy chair, shared the recent national

1/We should consider the additive benefits of #GDMT during MCS for #Cardshock. Recently, we looked at the effect of implementing a protocol for aggressive GDMT uptitration during Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Heart Recovery Impella support. There is a free link (only 50 first) to the publication in the end