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
Surgery will be transformed over the next two decades
The Royal College of Surgeons look at the future of surgical care and advise on how best to prepare for its opportunities and challenges.
Which technologies will deliver the greatest impact?
Support our international work this Christmas
Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Eastern Uganda performs over 5,000 major operations a year without a high dependency unit. Patients are cared for on one 50-bed ward with one nurse. A new unit will provide high quality postoperative care.
Help us build the first High Dependency Unit in Eastern Uganda
Impact Review 2018
As your professional body, supporting you to advance surgical care is at the heart of what we do. The impact review highlights of the work we have been doing, alongside our membership, to advance surgical care.
Impact review and annual report now live
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
Jehovah’s Witnesses and surgery
Anna Sayburn explores the consent issues that surgeons face when operating on patients who refuse blood transfusions.
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