📢 We have updated the CODP website to show examples of career opportunities for Operating Department Practitioners demonstrating the diversity of opportunities. Check out the CODP website at: codp.org.uk/page/home

Huge thanks to Cat Eccles MP for raising the delayed consultation to enable ODPs to supply and administer medicines using PGDs today at Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting. CODP are in very close liaison with Cat on the PGD issue.

Today we have launched resources on Improving Behaviours in Perioperative Care. Our infographic details WHY and HOW organisations and individuals can improve behaviours across periop care. Created with @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social @rcsed.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @afpp.bsky.social shorturl.at/fPhjp

🚨 Today’s the day! 🚨 We’re live at the AfPP Robotics Symposium at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, a prestigious event dedicated to advancing surgical innovation and exploring the future of robotics in healthcare. Let’s shape the future of surgery, together. 🤖✨ #AfPPRobotics

Absolutely no idea if this will work in practice, but it sounds cool and the video is incredibly satisfying :)

Great video by @medcrisis.bsky.social, as always, on the way we think about statistics youtu.be/F6Y_bpE3r5c

New edition of the #IPP is out! edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader... Nice companion articles about using hypothermia in cardiac surgery and avoiding it everywhere else! #AfPP #ODP #TheatrePractitioners @afpp.bsky.social

A nice tip I heard recently was putting a NIBP cuff on each arm for longer cases that don't necessarily need an arterial line - then switching every hour or so - so that the same arm isn't being used every 3-5 minutes throughout the case.

Ok it’s all happening here this weekend with @chrimesy.com hosting the #AnSkyMedSkyDebate. Two topics guaranteed to get even the quietest of you responding. Let’s make this a great weekend of discussion. Get involved you are most welcome xx

Outreach on Tour today @ Kings College in London Lectures so far on Enhanced Maternal Care, and Liver Intensive Care Considerations #criticalcare #outreach #odp

Come on get engaged and tell me what you think!! #AnSkyMedSkyDebate

I just lost way too much time playing with this :) Lots of interesting info if you like data and statistics #ODP

Today marks National Operating Department Practitioners (ODP) Day & we wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of our ODPs for the awesome work they do to support our patients & their surgical colleagues! 🎉 Here are just some of #TeamQVH pictured below. 💙 @collegeodp.bsky.social #ODPDay

Happy National Operating Department Practitioner Day to all our ODP colleagues! #ODPDay #ODPsCommittedtoCareCommittedtoSafety

🎉 Happy Operating Department Practitioners Day! Today we’re celebrating the skill, compassion, and dedication of our amazing #ODPs here at NHS Grampian. Learn more: codp.org.uk careers.nhs.scot/explore-care... #ODPsCommittedToCareCommittedToSafety #ODPDay #ProudToBeNHSG

Wishing a very happy ODP Day 2025 to our amazing ODP colleagues! Absolute professionals and so skilled in what they do, as well as being all-round brilliant people 😊 Quite simply, we couldn't do our jobs without them. #ODPDay2025 www.nhsfife.org/news-updates...

Happy #ODPDay to all of our wonderful colleagues. Thank you for everything you do to improve the health and wellbeing of our local population in the #NHS Humber Health Partnership region. We are here to support you with the information resources for your practice and CPD.

Happy Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) Day! Thank you to all our ODPs for the crucial but often hidden role you play in keeping patients safe in theatre 💙 This year marks the 80th anniversary of the ODP profession and the theme ODPs: Committed to Care - Committed to Safety”. #ODPDay

It’s Operating Department Practitioners Day! #ODPDay Our m highly-skilled ODPs are a vital part of our theatre teams, preparing the theatre environment, including the instruments and equipment for anaesthetic, surgery and recovery. Thank you to our amazing ODPs for everything you do! 💙

Thank you to my colleagues, my friends, my banter buds. You are amazing and awesome. #HappyODPDay #loveyourODP

You guys are the BEST - happy ODP Day! 😊

Happy #ODP day everyone! I had never heard of an Operating Department Practitioner until about 2 days before I applied to be with one It was a bit of a quick decision, but one I have not regretted 15 years in #ODP #Periop

Thank you to all my ODP colleagues for all the incredible things you do #NationalODPday

Theme for our 80th year this #ODPDay Committed to Safety Committed to Care That's why I'm proud to be Patient Safety Lead codp.org.uk and a Trustee @AvMAuk

Happy #ODPday to all the amazing Operating Department Practitioners out there. Thank you for invaluable contributions every day in theatre. “As a rule of thumb, if you’re ever unsure of which bit of equipment you need, it's usually the one in the ODP's hand” buff.ly/MsvCQQA

On National #ODPday we want to say thank you to all Operating Department Practitioners "the guardian angels of anaesthetists". 🥬 #ODPCommittedtoCareCommittedtoSafety @collegeodp.bsky.social

Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) are still one of healthcare’s best-kept secrets. Today, Wednesday May 14th, 2025, is National ODP Day, and a chance to change that. Find out more about the ODP role here: www.afpp.org.uk/about/operat... #ODPDay #ODPsCommittedtoCareCommittedtoSafety

Heads up #ODPs Members of CODP.org.uk have been sent an important email about PGDs. It's important that you respond.

Does anyone know if the amazing Dr Danielle Martin from Toronto 🇨🇦 is on here yet? Just learnt of her existence via the 2014 clip of a Florida representative grilling her and Dr Martin rising above and owning that person like a God-tier Queen. Colour me FanGirl and let’s bring her to #BlueSky!

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

AfPP is proud to honour two cornerstone events in the perioperative calendar; International Nurses Day on Monday May 12th and National Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) Day on Wednesday May 14th. Read more here: www.afpp.org.uk/afpp-news/af...

📢 Just one week to National ODP Day - 14th May. This year's theme ‘Operating Department Practitioners: Committed to Care, Committed to Safety’ (1/3).

CODP.org.uk has sent out the May newsletters to member's emails. If you didn't get yours, it's in the members area of the website. Updates include the Community interest groups, #ODPDay and the CUE Forum. #ODPs, join your professional body.

I arrived early to the first session and sat down next a nice young man. We had a chat and I suggested he come and get some more training in Adelaide. Being the interrogator I am found it he was a consultant. Who could he be?? #ASM25CNS

Join me tomorrow to discover the future of surgery - it is here now!

It’s so exciting when a new archaeological technique is developed - promising to unlock more secrets from the past. PhD student Maddison Crombie has just worked out a way to test ochre (mineral pigment) and find out where it’s come from:

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I love the idea of this - 'the fish doorbell' in Utrecht Watch the live stream and if you see a fish you press the doorbell to alert someone to open the lock This lets the fish travel through yo find a place to reproduce visdeurbel.nl/en/

It’s the start of the Antipodean weekend and that means #AnSkyMedSkyDebate time. Here’s the question: TIVA: bees knees or emperor’s new clothes? What do you think? What would you choose for you? Why? @anzca.bsky.social @rcoanews.bsky.social @assocanaes.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social

#ODPs Have your work Committed to Safety, Committed to Care recognised by entering this award. @collegeodp.bsky.social is a partner in the OneTogether collaborative.

This weekend’s #AnSkyMedSkydebate is being hosted by Iain Moppett, Editor at @anaesjournal.bsky.social. Please feel free to debate vigorously his topic. I will be at #ASM25CNS in Cairns. Thank you @iainmoppett.bsky.social @anzca.bsky.social#AnSkyMedSkydebate

The University of West London is seeking to appoint a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer as part of its friendly and innovative Operating Department Practice team. For further information please visit: jobs.uwl.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Closing date is Monday 19th May 2025.

Really interesting look at how people view bus/train timetables. Though living in the country any amount of service would seem extravagant😂

📢It's May - National ODP Day is getting closer. On National ODP Day, please join us in celebrating the incredible dedication, commitment and vital contribution Operating Department Practitioners make within healthcare. For further info 👉 codp.org.uk/page/home

Kemi Badenoch was schooled about the real impact of net zero straight to her face and it’s just fabulous www.thepoke.com/2025/04/30/kemi-badenoch-was-schooled-about-the-real-impact-of-net-zero-straight-in-her-face-just-fabulous/

So, #ansky, thinking this through as an academic exercise: What tasks and challenges do you believe an #aiAnaesthetist could never perform adequately? Conversely, what tasks do you think will provide the biggest benefits?

2/2 Through our work with @assocanaes.bsky.social and @ficm.bsky.social, our joint #FightFatigue Campaign is helping raise awareness, shift culture and drive improvements. The campaign provides resources, education and tools to help departments take action. ow.ly/uco150VJQKQ

📢 Today marks three months since the launch of the College of Operating Department Practitioners as a standalone independent Professional Body - It's been a busy time, take a look at what we have achieved 👇 To join us on our journey, please visit our homepage: codp.org.uk/page/home