Abstract
What’s in a name? Quite a lot, to judge by the editorial by Parry-Jones (vol 65(9), 2004, p. 516). The issue of who cares for the severely ill is important, not least because in the past clinical care in this arena has been suboptimal. However, developments over the past 5 years suggest that a multidisciplinary focus on the care of the severely ill is emerging in the UK. Initiatives including the formation of an Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine (IBTICM), specialty recognition and the emergence of a Certificate of Completion of Specialty Training, UK and European diplomas in intensive care medicine and a series of influential reports from the government (Department of Health, 2000) and Royal colleges underline this change.
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