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
Are you cut out for it?
Calling all CT2 trainee surgeons! Enter our national surgical skills competition to set your CV apart at ST3 application level and be in with the chance of winning £1,500!
RCS Surgical Skills Competition
Improving Surgical Training
Find all the information you need on the Improving Surgical Training 2019 pilot including its expansion to include urology and vascular surgery.
2019 applications now open
Help us establish a quality improvement network
We're running focus groups across the UK to gather views that will help shape our future proposals and establish a QI network.
In collaboration with The Health Foundation
LATEST BLOG POST
Why the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course is so relevant today
Last month The Lancet published a report into survival outcomes in England for patients with major trauma, following changes that occurred in 2012 to trauma service provision. The study showed a 19% increase in the odds of survival since the introduction of these changes. 1,600 more trauma victims are alive today because of the developments that have been made in the management of trauma patients in England over the last six years.
The Bulletin
Confronting unconscious bias
How far have we come and how far do we have to go? Professor Claire Hopkins discusses her experiences in the latest issue of the 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