Patients across the UK are missing out on an estimated 1.4 million operations and procedures each year, due to a significant shortage of anaesthetists. That's according to a new manifesto from the ...

The NHS is facing a “time bomb” and will be forced to cancel or delay around 8 million operations each year by 2040, due to a lack of consultant anaesthetists across the services. The Royal College of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a specialist registrar in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine I still have the freebie hand ...

Politicians and policymakers are trying to reduce the waiting list for surgery by pushing for increased productivity. Yet the ...

Patients are “paying the price” for a shortage of anaesthetists, experts have warned as a report laid bare the “growing scale of the workforce challenge” facing UK hospitals. There is a 15% shortfall ...

A “dire shortage” of anaesthetists is preventing an estimated 1.4 million NHS operations and procedures from being carried out every year, a report has warned. The issue is leading to “painful delays” ...

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