The North Thames Anaesthetic Meeting

A Message from the Committee

7 April 2024

The North Thames Anaesthetic Meeting will be returning in January 2025 - please make sure to save the date and get your study leave requests in.

We are delighted to announce the plenary speaker for 2025, Professor Tony Whitehouse. Tony is Honorary Professor of Intensive Care Medicine in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing and a Critical Care Consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

He is lead for Clinical Critical Care Research in the UK’s largest ICU at the QE and Chief Investigator for the NIHR-funded STRESS-L study. He is local principal investigator for a number of national studies.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank 2024's plenary speaker Dr Steve Harris, Principal Research Fellow in Translational Data Science at UCL and an Honorary NHS Critical Care Consultant for his excellent talks.

Register on our website to receive email updates about the next meeting, including when registrations open, details of the trainee prize competition and any special information about travel to the conference venue.

We mustn't also forget to mention Simon Hoskyns of Alpine Answers who has managed the accommodation and skipasses for NTAM for many years since the conference's inception. Keeping the costs down is getting more difficult, let’s not mention the 'B' word. We've been going to the Village Montana in Tignes now for over 10 years. Simon has built a close relationship with them and managed to reserve our 'slot' even as the hotel gets ever more popular and after much disruption to the hospitality sector during 2020-22.

Getting the Most from NTAM

Do... Tell us the Talks or Speakers that you'd like to hear

We invite a plenary speaker who is at the forefront of their speciality. But we also rely on our delegates, both to suggest talks and topics they'd like to hear, and to encourage people who can deliver them to talk at NTAM and disseminate their knowledge.

Don't...Be Shy

NTAM is a friendly meeting. We deliberately keep the numbers down as our feedback says that exchanging views and tips with colleagues in the bars and restaurants is an important part of the CPD that you can't quantify.

Do...Think Carefully about your Travel

We've had delegates take a taxi from Geneva to the Conference in their keeness to attend and speak but at a cost! Planning and preparation will make sure that you can get to Tignes safely and in good time without breaking the bank.