Anaesthesia on Air

By Royal College of Anaesthetists

Anaesthesia on Air is the Podcast from the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the speciality throughout the UK.

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The podcast currently has 160 episodes available.

Anaesthesia on Air episodes:

March 20, 2026Global Emergency & Operative Care: Challenges and Opportunities
In this episode, Dr Eoin Dore speaks to Miss Rachel Hargest following her presentation at the Winter Symposium 2025, where she delivered the Webb Johnson Oration Award lecture: Challenges and Opportunities for Surgeons and Anaesthetists in Global Emergency, Critical and Operative Care.
Miss Hargest shares what it really takes to deliver safe, effective surgery in low‑resource settings. From inventive problem‑solving and ethical challenges to strengthening anaesthetic and surgical training worldwide, this episode uncovers the realities, opportunities and big global health questions shaping care today. A fascinating conversation for anyone interested in global surgery, anaesthesia, and building sustainable healthcare systems.
Recorded Friday 21 November 2025
Related information:
RCS England-LSE Global Surgery Policy Unit - LSE
Miss Rachel Hargest Webb Johnson Oration 2025 presentation
...more
49min
March 12, 2026Living with MND: Andy’s Story
In this episode, Dr Andrew Vaughton, former Consultant Anaesthetist at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation, shares his experience following his 2021 Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis and subsequent medical retirement. Andy now focuses on MND awareness, fundraising, and promoting health and community support.
He’s joined by his wife Dr Susanne Vaughton, a former GP who left medicine after Andy’s diagnosis to become a full‑time writer. Known to readers as Susie Tate, she now balances authorship with advocacy and family life.
Together, Andy and Susie discuss their projects, their commitment to supporting MND charities, and how they’re using their time and platform to create meaningful impact. This episode highlights purposeful action, the strength of partnership, and a shared commitment to making a meaningful difference.
Recorded Friday 21 November 2025
Related information:
Guinness World Record: Longest Beach Touch Rugby Game | £100k Raised for MND
My Name’5 Doddie Foundation
Andy’s Army fundraiser for My Name'5 Doddie Foundation
...more
44min
November 14, 2025AI and patient information
In this podcast Dr Samantha Black, Dr Maya Sussmann and Chair of Patient voices at RCoA, Jenny Westaway discuss the use and growth of AI large language models and their role in the patient-clinician conversation, and the various risks and opportunities this presents.

They discuss the latest technology being used and how patients are currently using AI to inform themselves about healthcare.

Recorded 26 September 2025

Related information:
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/
Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4jnwdvg9qo
...more
30min
October 31, 2025Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Paediatric regional anaesthesia
In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference in Belfast consultant anaesthetists Dr Branislav (Brano) Mislovic and Dr Will Donaldson discuss developments in paediatric regional anaesthesia, following Brano's address to the conference.

Brano and Will address misconceptions around paediatric regional anaesthesia, the use of ultrasound and the various opportunities and challenges around this.

Recorded 20 May 2025

Related information:

Association of Anaesthesia: New blocks on the kids: core basic nerve blocks in paediatric anaesthesia
...more
26min
October 17, 2025Anaesthesia 2025 podcast - Human Factors - Hewitt lectureship
In this podcast, recorded at our Anaesthesia 2025 conference, Professor and Consultant Anaesthetist Helen Higham talks to Dr Paul Southall about her work and career improving the the 'complex and adaptive system' of anaesthesia often given by its shorthand, 'human factors'.

For this work Helen was awarded the Hewitt Lectureship, given to established senior clinicians, academic experts or pioneers in their fields who have advanced the science or art of anaesthetic practice.

Paul and Helen discuss her research interests, which include human factors and simulation-based education in healthcare, and her current projects focused on systems-based approaches to safety in primary care, human factors in low to middle income healthcare settings and the use of virtual reality to train healthcare professionals.

Helen gives us an insight into her career and professional life, and bangs the drum for the importance of quality improvement, simulation and team-based learning and how central anaesthesia and its culture is to these practices in medicine.

Recorded 20 May 2025

Related information:
OxSTAR - Helen Higham
Lectureships | The Royal College of Anaesthetists
...more
30min
October 03, 2025The experience of becoming a consultant anaesthetist
In this podcast Dr Jennifer Proc talks to Dr Tara Byott and Dr Sarah Muldoon about their experiences becoming consultant anaesthetists.

They discuss how Sarah and Tara became consultants, and Jennifer's own experience working towards that, and cover topics including: the first appraisal, preparing for managing anaesthetists in training, handling expectations with surgeons and patients alike, imposter syndrome, advocacy for theatre teams, and more.

Tara and Sarah provide lots of advice drawn from their personal experiences, much of it not exclusive to the consultant role, with reflections on authority, responsibility, and gender that may be applicable to anyone moving to a more senior position.

Recorded 9 September 2025

Related information:
Juggling the list – patient care and training opportunities | The Royal College of Anaesthetists
Making the most of stage 2 and 3 training
...more
51min
September 19, 2025CPOC patient safety 2025 prizewinner podcast
In this podcast Dr Hattie White talks to CPOC Director David Selwyn and CPOC Fellow Claire Frank about her prize winning presentation “Improving Clinical Incident Reporting in a District General Hospital Anaesthetic Department.” They discuss Hattie’s QI work, how she came up with the idea, the challenges and her contributions to perioperative care as a result. We hope this will be of interest to listeners who are thinking about embarking upon their own QI project.

Related information:
Dr Hattie White's prize-winning poster
Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice 2026 event
...more
23min
September 05, 2025Portfolio pathway - episode 5: Assessor viewpoint
This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:
Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
Non-Clinical domains
Clinical domains
SIAs
Assessor viewpoint
Related information:
RCoA portfolio pathway page
Information for portfolio pathway applications
Specialty Specific Guidance
Special Interest Area Guidance
Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
LLP Webinar
...more
15min
September 05, 2025Portfolio pathway - episode 4: SIAs
This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:
Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
Non-Clinical domains
Clinical domains
SIAs
Assessor viewpoint
Related information:
RCoA portfolio pathway page
Information for portfolio pathway applications
Specialty Specific Guidance
Special Interest Area Guidance
Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
LLP Webinar
...more
10min
September 05, 2025Portfolio pathway - episode 3: Clinical domains
This is a special podcast mini-series focusing on the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) programme, the process that enables doctors who don't hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to join the GMC's specialist register and therefore be eligible to take up substantive consultant posts.

We have created this mini-series to support those already undertaking the programme or for those interested in following the programme. The series consists of 5 episodes as below:
Introduction to the Portfolio Pathways programme and this series
Non-Clinical domains
Clinical domains
SIAs
Assessor viewpoint
Related information:
RCoA portfolio pathway page
Information for portfolio pathway applications
Specialty Specific Guidance
Special Interest Area Guidance
Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP)
LLP Webinar
...more
10min

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