Royal College of Anaesthetists
Tuesday 25th March 2014
Present:
Dr. Jairaj Rangasami, DAS President
Dr. Subrahmanyam Radhakrishna, DAS Honorary Secretary
Prof. Tim Cook, RCoA NAP Advisor
Miss. Mary Casserly, RCoA Education & Research Manager
Miss. Maddy Humphrey, RCoA Administrator for HSRC & NAPs
Meeting Purpose:
The purpose of the meeting was to follow-up from the highly successful and fully subscribed Airway Lead Day held at the RCoA on 26th September 2013 in agreeing on plans for DAS and RCoA support for the established network of Airway Leads (ALs) in two-thirds of UK NHS Trusts.
Discussion
- DAS forum
100 individuals have registered for access to a forum which will be hosted on the DAS website. The forum will provide a space for ALs to communicate with each other. As part of another DAS initiative there will be communication with a selected international panel of experts in the field, able to offer support and guidance on issues and local challenges brought to the forum.
- RCoA Airway Lead web page
The RCoA will provide an Airway Lead resource page in the Education section of the RCoA’s website. This page will signpost to existing resources on the NAP pages of the HSRC (Health Services Research Centre) website, within the e-Learning Anaesthesia (e-LA) programme, with links also to NAP4 and DAS guideline pages. The aim is that it willact as a repository for new resources and will grow over time, especially including resources submitted by Airway Leads across the UK (for example locally developed training tools, presentations and algorithms).
- UK-wide Airway Lead survey
Airway Leads will be consulted on ideas for a survey which could be adopted across the Airway Lead network. The forum will be the medium for this consultation.
- Communication between DAS, RCoA and the Airway Lead network
Timelines
Airway Lead forum will be live on DAS website and RCoA Airway Lead resource page will be live mid-May and announced at the RCoA’s Congress meeting.
A decision will be made by September 2014 as to whether a second Airway Lead meeting will be held in June 2015.