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Annual Report 2016
Expert Professional Practice & Collaborative Working Relationships
Katharina Floss is representing the UKCPA at the Royal College of Anaesthetists steering committee for their National
Audit Project (NAP6) on perioperative anaphylaxis.
Sophie Blow and Tracy Percival are representing the UKCPA in peer reviewing the Royal College of Anaesthetists’
Guidelines for the Development for the Provision of Anaesthetic Services document, on the pre-operative assessment
chapter.
Katharina Floss and Tracy Percival are representing the UKCPA on the advisory group for the Royal College of
Anaesthetists’ Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group. As part of this, Katharina Floss took part in a short-life working group on
Safe storage of medicines.
Collaboration with BMJ learning in peer reviewing an article, and subsequently helping them find pharmacists to peer
review other articles.
Sukeshi Makhecha, Sophie Blow and Katharina Floss commented on the 2016 GPAS document from the RCoA.
Neetu Bansal has been called upon by NICE as an expert advisor on the following drug appraisals:
Leadership
The Group has just completed a project to provide evidence-based, best practice advice on the management of perioperative
medications. The Handbook of Peri-Operative Medicines was published in late September 2016 at the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in London, and has been endorsed by the RPS, the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Pre-operative Association.
Management
The ongoing peri-operative medications project has involved various Committee members in organisational, writing and
reviewing roles.
Education, Training & Development
The Group presented a Masterclass on medication in the peri-operative period in September 2016.
Two sessions were also delivered at the UKCPA Conference in November 2016.
Neetu Bansal and Richard Adams peer reviewed an article on surgical practice for F1 doctors published by the BMJ.
Research & Evaluation
None in current time period.
Have you met your aims and objectives set last year?
The Group has delivered a Masterclass and expanded its committee.
Aims and objectives for next 12 months
Deliver two Masterclasses during 2017.
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