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Valuable input into Council comes from a number of specialist areas of critical care. These ex officio members of the Council are part of it by virtue of holding another office in a relevant group. They do not have voting rights on Council.
The Education and Training Group leads the delivery of education by the society and is chaired by Dr Mike Gillies. The group’s activities include the on-line induction modules, training days for Advanced ICM doctors, simulation courses at the Scottish Clinical Simulation Centre and the annual SICS Education Meeting.
The STG was formed in 2001 to provide a regular forum to bring together representatives of the transplant community in Scotland, including a representative from the SICS. The STG is chaired by Professor John Forsythe, Lead Clinician for Organ Donation and Transplantation in Scotland and meets quarterly in March, July, September and December. Secretariat to the Group is provided by the Scottish Government.
The Group also provides expert advice and makes recommendations to the Scottish Government on matters relating to organ and tissue donation and transplantation. STG has an ethics subgroup which considers the legal, ethical and professional issues surrounding organ donation.
In addition, in January 2008, Nicola Sturgeon, the then Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, asked the Group to take on the task of overseeing the implementation in Scotland of the recommendations from the first report of the UK Organ Donation Taskforce.
Following the publication of the Scottish Government’s Donation and Transplantation Plan for Scotland 2013-2020 (click here to download a copy [644KB]) the Group is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the recommendations in this document.
Another useful website is www.odt.nhs.uk – this site is a resource primarily for health care professionals and other interested parties. The ODT site provides information relevant to the UK for; organ donation and retrieval, selection of patients for transplantation, allocation policies and outcomes after transplantation.
The Scottish Critical Care Delivery Group, an association of Regional CCDG Chairs, is the Service Advisory forum for Critical Care in Scotland. It is recognised by SGHD National Planning Forum and CMO Medical Advisory Group. It acts around a number of key remit areas including:
Current Chair of the Chairs Group: Dr Brian Cook
Contact email: brian.cook@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
The CMO Adviser in critical care offers a vital link between the specialty and the Scottish Government Health Dept advising on matters such as developments in the service, workforce planning, training numbers and surge capacity.
Paediatric representation on the SICS Council began in 2012, and comes at an exciting time with major changes in ICM training, transport and extracorporeal life support services in Scotland. Paediatric intensivists have also joined the SCCDG to the benefit of both paediatric and adult intensive communities.The paediatric intensive care service was designated a national service in April 2007; it is provided by the Royal Hospitals for Sick Children (RHSC) in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Commissioning the two paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) as a single service, will develop closer working links between the two units and provide an effective single paediatric intensive care service for the population of Scotland.
The PICUs in Edinburgh and Glasgow submit audit returns to PICANet. This is a national audit coordinated by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, which collects data on all children admitted to PICUs across the UK. PICANet aims to continually support improvement of paediatric intensive care for children through clinical audit and enables the PICUs in Scotland to benchmark their care, against other Units across the UK.
The ScotSTAR Paediatric Retrieval Service is a dedicated paediatric intensive care transport service based at Glasgow Airport. The retrieval team take the skills of the paediatric intensive care unit on the road, to the bedside of critically ill children throughout Scotland. For further information including contact numbers and medication dose claculators see http://www.snprs.scot.nhs.uk/.
The Scottish Government Health Department’s National Planning Forum convened the Specialist Transport Services Strategic Review Project Board, which has provided and overview of the vision and strategic plan for a national specialist transport service for Scotland – ScotSTAR (Scottish Specialist Transport and Retrieval). The National Planning Forum has also convened an expert subgroup to make recommendations on ways to enhance existing major trauma services in Scotland. Representation from the SICS on these groups is vital to ensuring that the voice of critical care is heard in these projects that will have a major impact on ICU work. A representative from ScotSTAR is invited to meetings when required.
Website:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/Quality-Improvement-Performance/National-Planning-Forum
Click here to download a copy of ‘Towards a Single National Specialist Transport Service for Scotland – ScotSTAR: Strategic vision’
© SICS 2005-2023. Scottish Intensive Care Society SCIO registered in Scotland charity number SC050112