Committed to enabling surgeons to achieve and maintain the highest standards of surgical practice and patient care.
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Calling all patients
We are looking to fill four lay member positions on our Patient and Lay Group. The group provides an independent patient and lay view on issues relevant to surgery and healthcare. Positions close 24 May 2019.
Do you want to be a champion for patients?
Apply for a research fellowship
We offer a wide range of research fellowships, awards and grants to support all career stages. If you would like to extend the frontiers of surgery through clinical research, apply for one of our three joint fellowships, currently open until 13 June.
Exciting opportunities available to you
Surgical innovations, new techniques and technologies guidance
We have developed a new guidance to provide surgical teams with up-to-date thinking on the development and implementation of surgical innovations. The document offers a guiding framework on key considerations such as training, consent, ethical and regulatory requirements as well as governance arrangements, audit and how to demonstrate safety and effectiveness, to ensure that patient safety always comes first.
A guide to good practice
LATEST BLOG POST
The Future of Surgery
The Commission on the Future of Surgery has identified advances in medicine and technology that are likely to change surgical care over the next 20 years. Professor Derek Alderson, President of the RCS, says the modern surgeon will not only have to develop appropriate clinical skills, but can expect to be an educator, researcher, and leader of a multi-disciplinary and multi-professional team.
The Bulletin
As others truly see us
RCS Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin, Professor Neil Mortensen, discusses the importance of emotional intelligence in the surgical setting in this month's Bulletin.
BUILDING ON OUR HERITAGE
Transforming surgery for tomorrow
We are embarking on an ambitious three year transformation. We will be building on our heritage, bringing our surgical community closer together and expanding our digital resources.
RCS Transform
BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS
Whatever stage of your surgical career you’re at, RCS membership will provide you with the knowledge, skills and development and support you need.
SUPPORT OUR WORK
The RCS is a charity and relies on your support to fund research, training and conserving our heritage collections - all in the aim of advancing surgical care.
FROM OUR COLLECTIONS
Conserve our collections
Illustration of a skeleton and rhino from:
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani
by Albinus 1747