https://rachelyeager.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Rachel YeagerenMon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r607Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r607https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r607Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r607https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/cb93f841-4d21-4658-bd81-4a88375cce87.pdfThis sample media strategy demonstrates my approach to identifying key messages, audiences, media opportunities, and tactics that build awareness and engagement.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/cb93f841-4d21-4658-bd81-4a88375cce87.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/ae3f2936-f288-4b14-a8a1-8ed17f76098e.pdfThis press release demonstrates how I translate expert knowledge into clear narratives that inform audiences and generate media interest.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/ae3f2936-f288-4b14-a8a1-8ed17f76098e.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/592c173a-efe7-43dd-bc15-9c1a85fd0ec0.pdfThis calendar shows how I manage communication priorities and outputs while also considering organizational and seasonal activities.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514821/uploads/592c173a-efe7-43dd-bc15-9c1a85fd0ec0.pdfhttps://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2575Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2575https://youtu.be/iGG33xUnef4Originally aired 5/27/2025 on BBC Radio Scotland.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://youtu.be/iGG33xUnef4https://youtu.be/1rQL_yMSnUUOriginally aired 5/27/2025 on LBC Radio.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://youtu.be/1rQL_yMSnUUhttps://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/confidence-calmFor Black History Month, Dr Thungo Kuwani spoke with our Media and Communications Officer Rachel Yeager, about confidence and calm as a black female anaesthetist. Dr Thungo Kuwani knows that her superpower is being Thungo Kuwani. All of her: The black, female, consultant anaesthetist. The little girl from Zambia who originally dreamt of being an astronaut. The daughter of her mother and father, now mother to her own children. Dr Kuwani knows who she is and isn’t afraid to be herself. “I am very...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/confidence-calmhttps://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/strength-our-communitiesFor Black History Month, Dr Rochelle Pierre spoke with our Media and Communications Officer Rachel Yeager, about the importance of community.   Dr Rochelle Pierre describes herself as “quite a late bloomer;” which you would never think seeing the woman who is now an anaesthetist and charity founder, not to mention part-time DJ, and basketball hooper. But at one point Dr Pierre was much more focused on her jump-shot than her airway management: “When I was younger, I wanted to play basketball prof...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/strength-our-communitieshttps://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/my-experience-perioperative-cardiac-arrestMy cardiac arrest happened at 4.56pm on Friday 1 September 2017, during an operation to remove an abscess in my left breast/chest. I had been terribly ill for three months due to the initial unknown cause, but otherwise I was a healthy thirty-something, and the proud mother of a new baby. It had been a really difficult time, involving multiple rushes to A&E (several hospitals) and admissions, with extensive tests investigating everything from suspected blood clots on my lungs to abscesses on my...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/my-experience-perioperative-cardiac-arresthttps://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/10-questions-lgbtq-advocate-dr-duncan-mcgregorYes, thank you. My name is Dr Duncan McGregor and I’m an anaesthetic trainee working in Greater Manchester. GLADD is the UK’s only organisation for LGBTQ+ doctors, dentists, and medical students. We’re a non-profit organisation. The work we undertake broadly falls into three categories: education, activism, and networking. In my early years of medical school, an email fell into my inbox about a conference for LGBTQ+ medical students and that’s when I first heard about GLADD. I went along to the...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/10-questions-lgbtq-advocate-dr-duncan-mcgregorhttps://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/introducing-updated-green-theatre-checklistAs a College, our efforts to promote and support sustainability in anaesthetic practice benefit from working collaboratively. The new updated Green Theatre Checklist is a great example of how a multidisciplinary and intercollegiate approach can lead to tangible improvements.   We’ve worked with the UK and Ireland Surgical Colleges, the Association of Anaesthetists and the Association for Perioperative Practice to update the Checklist, first launched in 2022, which provides all members of the sur...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/introducing-updated-green-theatre-checklisthttps://rcoa.ac.uk/node/26086I’m an intensive care medicine registrar with an anaesthetic background and a PhD student at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, where my research focuses on immune dysregulation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.  I also have an interest in healthcare inequalities and, over recent years, have worked with colleagues from across the UK and globally to try to improve the care of LGBTQ+ patients. I was fortunate to join the Intensive Care...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/node/26086https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/what-we-would-tell-our-colleagues-about-snap3As Chief Investigator and Lead for the RCoA’s Sprint National Anaesthesia Project on frailty and multimorbidity (SNAP3), we were proud to see our outcomes paper published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia last month. Since then, we and our colleagues have taken every opportunity to share our findings with peers across the country, including at Anaesthesia 2025.  One question keeps surfacing - a familiar one to anyone involved in research: how do we move from evidence to meaningful clinical c...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/what-we-would-tell-our-colleagues-about-snap3https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/glimpse-behind-curtain-pilot-progressWhen the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) invited volunteers to participate in the pilot of its new Clinical Performance Examination (CPE), I signed up—part curiosity, part a sense of academic adventure. What followed was an insightful journey into the evolving landscape of anaesthetic assessment.  As part of an ongoing evolution driven by both internal and external reviews, the Final FRCA is undergoing significant transformation. By 2027, the traditional SOE will be replaced with the CPE:...Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rcoa.ac.uk/blog/glimpse-behind-curtain-pilot-progresshttps://youtu.be/4ilOlcktSM8Originally aired 5/27/2025 on Good Morning Britain.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://youtu.be/4ilOlcktSM8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F3tHBA84o8Originally aired 10/23/2025 on ITV News.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F3tHBA84o8https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/a-blueprint-for-nhs-efficiency/7037377.article#commentsJumpDavid Selwyn explains how NHS leaders must optimise the surgical pathway to reduce last-minute cancellations, improving patient outcomes and saving in the process Joined-up care for patients considering surgery is not a new or controversial concept so why, in 2024, are we still not doing it?Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/a-blueprint-for-nhs-efficiency/7037377.article#commentsJumphttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/diet-and-exercise-help-could-increase-cancer-survival-rates-br9ppgqq6Persuading cancer patients to take exercise classes, improve their diet and talk through their problems can improve their survival rates, according to pioneering research. Experts say “prehabilitation” should become part of routine cancer care protocols to boost UK patients’ chances.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/diet-and-exercise-help-could-increase-cancer-survival-rates-br9ppgqq6https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/weight-loss/skinny-back-in-fashion/In case you hadn’t noticed, skinny is back. Sigh. Both the jeans and the Twiggy physique to slip into them. But while the glossies are full of suggestions on how to style your denim, there’s a bit of an information gap when it comes to shedding the midlife pounds without damaging your long-term health.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/weight-loss/skinny-back-in-fashion/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-crisis-complete-nightmare-enough-36153635The NHS staffing crisis means one in three senior doctor positions are unfilled in parts of the country, a report warns. Data released under Freedom of Information laws found 33,000 consultant jobs were listed on the NHS Jobs website between 2022 and 2025 in England and Wales - enough to staff more than 66 large hospitals. The report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found the NHS spent £674million on expensive agency doctors in 2024/25 as managers regularly take 12 months to fill a vacancy....Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-crisis-complete-nightmare-enough-36153635https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-patients-england-government-department-of-health-and-social-care-b2854951.htmlPatients are “paying the price” for a shortage of anaesthetists, experts have warned as a report laid bare the “growing scale of the workforce challenge” facing UK hospitals.There is a 15% shortfall of anaesthetists – doctors who give anaesthetics to patients before, during and after procedures – according to the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).Its latest workforce audit highlights how a shortage of these medics has led to pre-planned surgeries being delayed.A survey of 143 clinical leader...Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-patients-england-government-department-of-health-and-social-care-b2854951.htmlhttps://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-09-18/long-nhs-waiting-lists-forced-patient-losing-sight-to-go-privateLong NHS waiting lists forced a woman from Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, to seek a private diagnosis after being told she had a serious eye condition.Bridie Doyle-Roberts was told by her optician that they suspected she had a degenerative condition that would affect her eyesight.She was told not to drive home from that appointment and was referred to hospital for confirmation of the condition. However, she said to get this confirmation she was added to a three year waiting list. “I felt like I c...Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-09-18/long-nhs-waiting-lists-forced-patient-losing-sight-to-go-privatehttps://www.clinicalservicesjournal.com/story/48209/difficult-airways-how-can-we-mitigate-risks-in-theatreAirway management is fundamental to anaesthetic care. Most of the time this is routine and all goes well, but in the rare cases it fails the consequences can be severe. A difficult airway is broadly defined as a situation in which we encounter difficulties managing a patient's airway with recognised techniques. Ideally, we can identify patients with difficult airways early. With proper assessment, communication and planning, we can mitigate the risks of airway problems prior to surgery. However,...Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.clinicalservicesjournal.com/story/48209/difficult-airways-how-can-we-mitigate-risks-in-theatre