12 March 2025 Dr David Selwyn ‘Perioperative Care, here and now or future state’

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Please join us on Wednesday 12th of March to welcome Dr David Selwyn

Dr David Selwyn, Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), Acting Chief Executive Officer of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust, Consultant in Adult Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

David was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) in May 2019, tasked with establishing and developing CPOC as a genuinely cross-organisational, multidisciplinary initiative delivering perioperative care for true patient benefit. Over the past 5 years, CPOC has been hosted and largely funded by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).During his tenure as Director, CPOC has established itself as the pre-eminent UK voice of perioperative care, has driven perioperative standards of patient quality care, embedded the patient voice at the centre of this transformational change and developed a cross-speciality, cross profession perioperative care curriculum. CPOC has also created a global voice and presence whilst developing a series of high value professional partnerships

Prior to becoming Director of CPOC, David was the Chairman of the RCoA Clinical Directors’ Network, a national network of medical leaders in anaesthesia, intensive care, and pain management.  He continues to sit on the College Council and is also a representative on major Royal College Boards and committees. David lectures locally, regionally and nationally on perioperative care and also on medical leadership

He is currently the Acting Chief Executive Officer at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Trust’s Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), Caldicott Guardian and Digital Lead

Prior to joining Sherwood Forest Hospitals in 2019, David was the Deputy Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

His clinical background is anaesthesia, perioperative care and adult critical care and before embarking on his leadership journey, David was a Regional Advisor for 8 years, an inaugural Intensive Care Medicine Training Programme Director and a Faculty Tutor

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