The Royal College of Surgeons: Committed to enabling surgeons to achieve and maintain the highest standards of surgical practice and patient care.

Committed to enabling surgeons to achieve and maintain the highest standards of surgical practice and patient care.

Good Surgical Practice

Reaffirming and setting out surgeons’ commitment to personal responsibility and to the continuous improvement of quality of care and of patient safety.

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We hope you like the new RCS website. Please take some time to explore and read more about new features and what's planned for coming months.

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LATEST BLOG

Improving the odds

Mike Grocott looks at recent work the RCS has done with the NELA and the Royal College of Anaesthetists to improve the care patients receive before, during and after emergency bowel surgery, the most high risk surgery in England and Wales.

PUBLICATIONS

What if... obesity reaches 50%?

It's already hailed as an 'epidemic', but the Bulletin asks what the consequences would really be should the nation’s increasing weight problem expand to half of the population.

HERITAGE

Visit the Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian Museum boasts unrivalled collections of human and non-human specimens, models, instruments, painting and sculptures revealing the art and science of surgery from the 17th century to the present day.