October 28th, 2021
BOOKING NOW OPEN
That’s right. Booking for our November 16th Meeting is now open.
The platform will be Microsoft Teams and we are using bookcpd for the admin side of the bookings.
Modestly priced at £25 for Medical Staff and FREE for Nursing/AHP/ODPs.
Get your booking on now at the link below:
SPAN Winter Educational Meeting | Medical | BookCPD.com
Click here to view up-to-date programme (9th November 2021)
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September 7th, 2021

Applications are invited for a substantive Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist post at Aberdeen. This is an opportunity to be part of a growing team of Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetists based at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital. The advertised post is a whole time equivalent replacement post with 8 direct clinical care programmed activities and 2 supporting programmed activities.
More information about how to apply, about the people, the job itself and about Aberdeen as a place to live, can be found by clicking the link below. If that doesn’t work, copy and paste the link into your browser bar.
Closing date for applications is 26th September 2021.
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=64374
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July 27th, 2021
Save the Date People for the triumphant return of our Winter Education Meeting! Well, to online at least. Still hopeful for a face-to-face for 2022!
This year’s education meeting will be hosted via MS Teams and will be on:
Tuesday 16th November 2021
The meeting will be all day, make sure you’re on our mailing list to get all the goss! Contact us at span.webmaster@gmail.com
Don’t forget to keep up on FaceBook and Twitter as well!!!
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June 1st, 2021
Richard Martin has sent us some information about ordering his book, as well as a discount code.
With the discount code the book is £15.99
Follow the link to purchase/browse
Enter discount code MARTIN21 at checkout
Click HERE to go to website

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March 30th, 2021
The Scottish Paediatric Anaesthetic Network Spring Webinar will be held on:
Thursday 13th May 2021
(Morning Session Only)
Book your leave!
The link for booking is here:
Trainees! If you wish to present a project, please send the abstract (300 words) to Katie Misselbrook at Katie.Misselbrook@alderhey.nhs.uk.
We are also looking for submissions for our M and M meeting, if you have a learning case you’d like to share, please get in touch with Tony Moores at tony.moores@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.
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February 9th, 2021
February 10th, 15:00 – 17:15
APA Linkman Meeting
Booking Still open:
https://na.eventscloud.com/website/20289/linkman1-2/
Data driven health behaviour modification: The future or a fantasy?
Dr Chris Evans, Anaesthetic Research Fellow, University College London Hospital and Founder of Little Journey, UK |
Pre-operative Assessment in children
Dr Simon Courtman, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Plymouth, Director Women’s and Children’s Services, Clinical Director of the NHSE SW Surgery in Children ODN, UK |
In-Situ Paediatric Anaesthetic Emergency Simulation
Dr Hannah Lonsdale, Consultant Anaesthetist, Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
Consent, implications of the new GMC guidance
Dr Hugo Wellesley, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust |
Question Time with APAGBI Executive Officers
Dr Karen Bartholomew, Honorary Treasurer, APAGBI
Dr Chris Gildersleve, President, APAGBI
Dr Mark Thomas, President-Elect, APAGBI |
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December 16th, 2020
Our 15th December Webinar is now available to view at the link below. Please click to view.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW WEBINAR
Please find the feedback form at the link below.
As mentioned, this webinar was not recognised by the RCoA for CPD due to our late application, but CPD can be claimed for appraisal purposes with submission of appropriate reflective feedback.
Please fill out this feedback (CLICK HERE) and send back to us at:
span.webmaster@gmail.com
And we will send you your attendance certificate.
Please retain your completed feedback and your attendance certificate for your appraisal / ARCP.
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November 30th, 2020

Good News!!
Log-in details are now available for our next SPAN webinar, on Tuesday 15th December 2020 @ 17:30.
See the flyer above, and please feel free to share with interested colleagues!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85420033329?pwd=RmN1ekpxM1BEaWc2a0hTZHBWcGZuQT09
Webinar ID: 854 2003 3329
Passcode: 632171
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November 24th, 2020

We are delighted to announce that the webinar is available NOW to watch again (or for the first time if you are with us on ‘catch-up’). You can watch the webinar by clicking or copying the following link with passcode:
Passcode: Nz?8YPkH
We have attached the feedback form for this event. The RCoA have accredited our webinar for 1 CPD point. To claim your certificate, please fill out the feedback form
(Click Here) and return to
span.webmaster@gmail.com.
See also our flyer for the next webinar, already in the pipeline and only 2 weeks away! We can’t wait to see you all again as Mr James Andrews (Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, RHC Glasgow) talks to us about neonatal surgical emergencies and gives us some of his time for a Q and A also.
The PROSA2020 webinar series on paediatric sedation, mentioned during the webinar on 30th November, can be found here:
www.facebook.com/span.scotland
@ScottishNetwork
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May 11th, 2020
This is an international study of whether children with Covid-19 experience more hypoxia under anaesthesia than children without Covid-19. The study aims to collect data for all children in a convenient 2 week period between now and 31st October 2020 at participating centres. The data is entered into the REDCap system.
PDF of research plan: PAWS COVID-19 Research Plan
Poster for study: 
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