Bill Kilvington

Important information from our professional body codp.org.uk

Extend medicines responsibilities for allied health professions This consultation seeks views on extending medicines responsibilities for paramedics, physiotherapists, operating department practitioners and diagnostic radiographers.

📢 Operating Department Practitioners - Last chance to responded to the national consultation to enable ODPs to supply and administer medicines using Patient Group Directions?

Consultation closes at 11:59pm 28th October 2025.

To respond to the consultation, please visit: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Quart, zucchini 🤔

On this #WorldAnaesthesiaDay, time to ask which came first -Anaesthesia or the ODP🤔

#ODPs have always been perioperative practitioners!

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#CODPTheVoiceOfTheODP

#CODPTheVoiceOfTheODP
Culmination of 10 years of your Professional Body working to give you the tools to support your care.

📢 Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2025

Huge congratulations to Krystal Mpofu, Operating Department Practitioner at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Winner of the AHP Creative Provision of Placements Award 2025.

Post anaesthetic recovery, resuscitation, hospital at night and critical care outreach are examples

Not if we see it as about power. It's about being equipped to meet our patient's needs, in the appropriate circumstances.

📢 New on the CODP Website - Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship in Theatres.

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Huge thanks to The Rt Hon. the Lord Bradley and Advanced Critical Care Practitioner Mark Cannan - Meeting to discuss extending independent prescribing responsibilities to Operating Department Practitioners.

codp.org.uk and patient safety talk to the new #ODP Students @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social yesterday. Patient stories from personal experience illustrating the key role of our profession in Safety.
Our professional body, supporting development of our future profession

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Grommet you say

Seat down!

codp.org.uk Karen Amber and I ensuring the #ODP voice, professional needs and, crucially, contribution to delivering healthcare now and into the future is heard.
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#WeAHPs

This year your professional body is celebrating it's 80th year, founded only 3 decades after this book was published.
A good time to join The College and be part of your professions ongoing story
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The impact of anaesthesia and asepsis. Average length of stay reduced from sixty days to nineteen!

The then 'modern' operating theatre in 1909

Memories of Canon Scott, Chaplain from the 1860's, referring to the early resistance to the use of anaesthesia. Maybe a later misquoted as a 'good healthy scream'?

Source for the role of Boxboys? Worth noting that Fred Wheadon - founder member of the CODP and who was still teaching anaesthesia when in trained 1978-1980 was originally a Box Boy in the 1930s

One text quoted in our history, referring to the role of the 'handlers'

History of the London Hospital by Edward Morris. Written in 1909 and published in 1910. (references to Blizard refer to Wm. Blizard Surgeon at the London from 1780 for 53 years)

I've been reading more from an orginal source book for the history of the CODP and the ODP Profession, used by Dr Pope in the 1960s
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#ODPs - some of the non-traditional roles identified on the College Blog - can you add more?
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For all who are joining the Advocacy Community Group tomorrow, please see Agenda below.

It’s not too late to join the CODP and shape the future!!!

📢 Calling all ODP Learners

The CODP is here to support you through your studies and into your career. Tell us what matters most!

Have your say here: forms.office.com/e/ccyqhYBq9c

College of Operating Department Practitioners

codp.org.uk quick reminder to #ODPs to add your experience in non-traditional roles as an ODP.
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Helps the College and wider profession to demonstrate our true reach and positive impact!

College of Operating Department Practitioners

Busy week volunteering for codp.org.uk. Great session yesterday @JamesPagetNHS Busy morning sorting accounts and memberships, now on way to @The_HCPC Professional Bodies Forum.
Support your College by joining. If you've started the form, ensure you complete it and get your colleagues onboard too.

It's certainly a tough time in the NHS at the moment.

I'm attending an AHPF meeting next week, I'll raise it. Such short sightedness

Be interested to hear what they thought of the session. Seemed well received