Intensive Care Society
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The Intensive Care Society is the organisation responsible for promoting and maintaining intensive care and critical care
medicine
in the United Kingdom. It is the representative body in the United Kingdom for intensive care professionals and patients and the oldest society for critical care medicine in the world. The Society is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality of critical care to patients in the United Kingdom. It performs many functions for the intensive care community in the United Kingdom such as the production of guidelines and standards, staging national meetings, training courses and focus groups. It represents Intensive Care in wide ranging organisations from the Royal College
s to the Department of Health and other organisations and societies with a stake or interest in intensive care.
It was represented on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care until responsibility for design and accreditation of training in Intensive Care Medicine passed to the new Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
The society is based at Churchill House in London
, also home to the Royal College of Anaesthetists
, The College of Emergency Medicine
& the British Association for Emergency Medicine and the British Pain Society. The Society's patron is HRH The Princess Royal.
Critical care
Critical care may refer to:* Critical care medicine or intensive-care medicine, a branch of medicine concerned with life support for critically ill patients* "Critical Care" , an episode of the TV series...
medicine
Medicine
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in the United Kingdom. It is the representative body in the United Kingdom for intensive care professionals and patients and the oldest society for critical care medicine in the world. The Society is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality of critical care to patients in the United Kingdom. It performs many functions for the intensive care community in the United Kingdom such as the production of guidelines and standards, staging national meetings, training courses and focus groups. It represents Intensive Care in wide ranging organisations from the Royal College
Royal College
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s to the Department of Health and other organisations and societies with a stake or interest in intensive care.
It was represented on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care until responsibility for design and accreditation of training in Intensive Care Medicine passed to the new Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
The society is based at Churchill House in London
London
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, also home to the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Royal College of Anaesthetists
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is "the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom". It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physician assistants - and practising critical care...
, The College of Emergency Medicine
College of Emergency Medicine
The College of Emergency Medicine is an organization of emergency physicians in the United Kingdom which sets standards of training and administers examinations for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland.-Entrance criteria:...
& the British Association for Emergency Medicine and the British Pain Society. The Society's patron is HRH The Princess Royal.