For this month’s newsletter, I wish to share information on the following
- An in-house simulation course that counts as a resus refresher
- ACC joint market engagement: Primary and Secondary Care
- Presenters wanted for the Virtual Bootcamp 2025
- Urgent Care Research Network
In-house Simulation course
The College has approved a 4-hour, in-house paediatric-focused simulation course as satisfying the resuscitation refresher requirement. As this is focused on paediatric resuscitation, we recommend that this is completed at most once every three years, with another refresher focused on adult or adult-child resuscitation.
Details can be found at this web page link.
You can also hear more from the team at MedSim Solutions on the podcast this week.
Practising arrest and peri-arrest scenarios within your clinic, with your regular team, using your usual equipment and with a team of facilitators delivering psychologically safe simulations, offers a great learning, team building and confidence-enhancing experience. This is another option for clinics to provide resus refreshers for their team.
ACC Joint Market Engagement: Primary and Secondary Care
ACC are holding a couple of engagement webinars on May 29th.
It is important that UC clinicians have their voices heard, so check these out if you can.
Presenters wanted for the Virtual Bootcamp 2025
Bootcamp will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2025, and will run from 0800 – 1700. This year it is virtual, with all presentations taking place using zoom webinar.
This online educational day complements our in-person biennial Bootcamp and enables easy access to College-produced CPD for all our members.
The Bootcamp will follow the usual format. Four talks, each 15 minutes long, to be presented in succession, culminating in a Q&A to all 4 presenters. This makes each session about 80-90 minutes long, and the idea is for each talk to distil a practice-changing piece of information for attendees to take forward into their future work.
We are looking for volunteers to offer an expression of interest to present. We are keen for anyone with an interesting case, a practice-changing tip, or thought-provoking idea to put their name forward for consideration. We hope to provide a broad and diverse selection of topics and are keen for any urgent care clinician to be involved. So, if you are a Fellow, registrar, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, or paramedic, please consider expressing an interest.
For those interested, please complete this JotForm survey. The programme is coming together, but there are still spaces for additional talks.
Urgent Care Research Network
The College has started an Urgent Care Research Network to bring together clinicians working in urgent care who have an interest, experience, or both in research. We hope that by linking people together in a formal group, we will support those who are interested in growing the body of urgent care research. The inaugural meeting is being arranged, but people are free to join the network at any time. For further details and a link to the registration form, follow this link.