Editorial: POCUS in Acute Medicine

In this edition of Acute Medicine, Knight et al. demonstrate from SAMBA data that access to ultrasound machines and supervision is geographically heterogeneous. They raise concerns that this may lead to inequity of provision of Point of Care Ultrasound(POCUS) and the benefits it can provide for patients. This point is well made: Since the development of the Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound (FAMUS) competencies in 2016 there has been a steady increase in the provision of supervisors to 80 and the number of individuals completing training has increased to 56. Whilst this is to be applauded, our experience concurs with this paper that much of the ultrasound training is concentrated in pockets of expertise in particular hospitals.