End of Life Care Guidance
End of Life Care Guidance (PDF 5Mb)
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Library & Publications
- RCS Publications
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- A Public Poll on the Word 'Surgeon'
- Access All Ages: Assessing the impact of ages on access to surgical treatment
- Access All Ages 2
- Acting on Concerns
- Actions for the Government to Improve Oral Health
- Annual Report 2004-2005
- Annual Report 2005-2006
- Annual Report 2006-2007
- Annual Report 2007-2008
- Annual Report 2008-2009
- Annual Report 2009-2010
- Annual Report 2011-2012
- Annual Report 2012-2013
- Annual Report 2013-2014
- Annual Report 2014-2015
- Annual Report 2015 -2016
- Annual Report 2016 -2017
- Annual Report 2017 - 2018
- Arthroscopic Meniscectomy
- Associate Specialist Appointments
- Asymptomatic Scrotal Swelling - Commissioning Guide
- Avoiding Unconscious Bias: A guide for surgeons
- Better Care for the Severely Injured
- National Bowel Cancer Audit
- National Bowel Cancer Audit - Supplementary
- Breast Lumpectomy
- Breast Mastectomy
- Breast Reducation - Commissioning Guide
- Building a Culture of Candour
- An Investigation of the Performance of the 3M Capital Hip System
- UK Cardiothoracic Transplant Audit Report
- Careers in Surgery 2014
- Carpel Tunnel Release
- Cataract Surgery
- Children's Surgery - A First Class Service
- Code of Practice for the Surgical Management of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Colinic Diverticular Disease - Commissioning Guide
- Commissioning Guide on Management of Paediatric Torsion for Consultation
- Confidentiality and Disclosure of Health Information - Toolkit
- Consent: Supported Decision-Making - a good practice guide
- Coronary Artery Bypass
- Course Accreditation
- Criteria for Recognition of Posts Suitable for Training in the MFDS/MFD Examination
- Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner: PLG response
- Delivering High-quality Surgical Services for the Future
- Delivering Surgical Services: Options for maximising resources
- Dental Sedation Report
- Good Practice in the Dental Specialties (2004)
- Developing a Modern Surgical Workforce
- Discectomy
- Duty of Candour Review - Final Report
- Duty of Candour - Guidance for Surgeons and Employers
- Emergency General Surgery - Commissioning Guide
- Caring for patients who refuse blood - a guide to good practice
- Emergency General Surgery
- End of Life Care Guidance
- Ethical Principals of Working Overseas
- Improving Surgical Training
- Outpatient clinics: A guide to good practice
- RCS Surgical Care Team Guidance Framework
- RCS Surgical Research Report 2017
- Surgical Innovation New Techniques and Technologies
- Using data to support change in clinical practice
- Working together to improve the local delivery of the General Surgery of Childhood
- Emergency Surgery: Standards for unscheduled care
- Ensuring the Provision of General Paediatric Surgery in the District General Hospital
- Equality and Diversity
- Facial Transplantation: Working Party Report (2006)
- Faecal Incontinence - Commissioning Guide
- FDS Prospectus 2005-2006
- First Patient Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit
- Foreskin Conditions - Commissioning Guide
- From Innovation to Adoption
- From Theory to Theatre: Overcoming barriers to innovation in surgery
- Gall Bladder Removal
- Gallstones - Commissioning Guide
- General Guidelines and Protocol for the Recognition of Posts Suitable for Training under the MFDS/MFD and the MRCS(Eng) Regulations
- General Paediatric Surgery Survey
- General Professional Training in England and Wales
- GMC Revalidation FAQs for Retired Doctors
- Going into Hospital for an Operation
- Good Medical Practice
- Good Practice in the Dental Specialties (2001)
- Good Surgical Practice
- Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) - Commissioning Guide
- Groin Hernia Repair
- Good Surgical Practice - Mentoring
- Good Surgical Practice - Morbidity and Mortality Meetings
- Guidance for Health Authorities and Dental Schools Applying to FDS
- Guidance for Producing Cosmetic Surgery Information for Patients
- Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Surgery
- Guide on Revalidation for SAS Surgeons
- Guidelines for Appointment to Hospital Practitioner Grade in the Dentally Based Specialties
- Guidelines for Appointment to Staff Grade in the Dentally Based Specialties
- Guidelines for Community Dental Services applying to the Faculty of Dental Surgery for Recognition of Posts within the Service for Training for the MFDS
- Guidelines for Faculty Assessors on Advisory Appointment Committees for Consultants
- Guidelines for the Recognition of Posts in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Suitable for Training under the FRCS(Eng)/MRCS Regulations
- Handbook for College Assessors 2016
- Handbook for College Assessors
- Having an Operation?
- Hernia - Commissioning Guide
- The High Performing Surgical Team: A guide to best practice
- The Higher Risk General Surgical Patient
- Hospital Episode Stats and Revalidation
- Improving Surgical Practice: Learning from the experience of RCS invited reviews
- Improving your Elective Patient's Journey
- Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
- Laryngeal Transplantation: Working party final report
- Leadership and Management of Surgical Teams
- Live Surgery Broadcasts - Position Statement
- Liver Transplant Audit Report
- Locum Doctor Costs in NHS Trusts in England
- Locum Surgeons: Principles and standards
- Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - Commissioning Guide
- Lung Resection
- Male Circumcision: Guidance for Healthcare Practitioners
- Manual of Specialist Training in Dentistry in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Massive Weight Loss Body Countouring - Commissioning Guide
- National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Third Report
- National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Fourth Report
- National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - First Report
- National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Second Report
- Medical Education England Review of the Impact of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on the Quality of Postgraduate Training
- Mentoring - A Guide to Good Practice
- Methodologies for Clinical Audit in Dentistry
- Mid-Staffordshire NHS FT Public Inquiry: The RCS view
- Morbidity and Mortality - A Guide to Good Practice
- Nasal Septoplasty
- National Joint Registry Report
- National Undergraduate Curriculum in Surgery
- National Vascular Registry Report on Surgical Outcomes
- Non-pharmacological Behaviour Management
- NPCA Annual Report
- National Vascular Registry Annual Report
- Oesophagectomy
- Openness and Transparency in Surgery
- Openness with Patients - Position statement
- Clinical Guidelines and Integrated Care Pathways for the Oral Health Care of People with Learning Disabilities
- Orthognathic Procedures - Commissioning Guide
- Osteoarthritis of Knee - Commissioning Guide
- Otitis Media with Effusion - Commissioning Guide
- Paediatric Emergency Appendicectomy - Commissioning guide
- Paediatric Orchidoplexy - Commissioning guide
- Painful Deformed Great Toe in Adults - Commissioning Guide
- Painful Hip - Commissioning Guide
- Patient Outcomes in Surgery Report
- Pinnaplasty - Commissioning Guide
- Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) Breast Implants: Joint Surgical Statement on Clinical Guidance for Patients, GPs and Surgeons
- National Comparative Audit of Surgery for Nasal Polyposis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis
- Postgraduate Programme Accreditation Standards
- Pre-operative Tests Report
- Professional Standards for Cosmetic Practice
- Professional Standards for Cosmetic Surgery
- Provision of General Children's Surgery - Commissioning Guide
- Quality Assurance for the Dental Specialties
- Quality Indicators for Job Plans for SAS Surgeons
- A Question of Balance: The extended surgical team
- Raising Concerns - A Quick Guide for Surgeons
- RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill 2011
- RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill: Third Reading and Report Stage Briefing
- RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill: Second Reading
- RCS Briefing - Procedures of Limited Clinical Value
- RCS Briefing - Seven Day Care Briefing
- RCS Position Statement - Commissioning a Competent Surgical Service
- RCS position statement - Surgical assistants
- RCS Response - Proposals for Legislation on Organ and Tissue Donation
- RCS Response - Centre for Workforce Intelligence: Shape of the Medical Workforce
- RCS Response - Commissioning a Competent Surgical Service
- RCS Response - Draft EU Directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications
- RCS Response - European Commission Green Paper on Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive
- RCS Response - European Commission Consultation on the Professional Qualifications
- RCS Response - European Commission Second Phase Consultation: Reviewing the European Working Time Directive
- RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Education and Training
- RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Information
- RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Integrated Services
- RCS Response - Health and Social Care Bill: Re-committall to Bill Committee
- RCS Response - Innovation in the NHS
- RCS Response - NHS Future Forum: Listening Exercise
- RCS Response - NICE Consultation on Potential COF Indicators
- RCS Response - Proposals to Introduce Independent Prescribing to Podiatrists
- RCS Response to Welsh Assembly Health Strategy
- RCS Response to Welsh Assembly Organ Donation White Paper
- Reconfiguration of Surgical, Accident and Emergency and Trauma Services in the UK
- Rectal Bleeding - Commissioning Guide
- REFER Project Research Report
- Regional Trauma Systems: Interim guidance for commissioners
- Report on the State of Children's Oral Health
- Research Report 2003-2004
- Research Report 2005-2007
- Research Report 2008-2009
- Research Report 2010-2011
- Reshaping Surgical Services: Principles for Change
- Revalidation Guide for Surgery
- Rhinosinusitis - Commissioning Guide
- Rota Planning: Guidance from the Working Time Directive Working Party
- Safe Handover: Guidance from the Working Time Directive Working Party
- Safe Shift Working for Surgeons in Training: Revised College policy statement
- Separating Emergency and Elective Surgical Care: Recommendations for practice
- The Shape of Training
- Smokers and Overweight Patients: Soft targets for NHS savings?
- Standards for Children's Surgery
- Standards for non specialist emergency surgical care of children
- Standards for Non-specialist Emergency Surgical Care of Children
- State of Surgery in Wales
- Subacromial Shoulder Pain - Commissioning Guide
- National Study of Subarahnoid Haemorrhage Final Report
- Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - Policy statement
- Surgery for Children: Delivering a First Class Service
- Surgical Leadership: A guide to best practice
- Surgical Research Report 2011
- Surgical Research Report 2012
- Surgical Research Report 2013
- Surgical Research Report 2015-16
- Surgical Titles in the NHS - Position Statement
- Surgical Tutor Handbook
- Surgical Workforce 2006: Interim Report and Policy Update
- Surgical Workforce: 2007 Update
- Surgical Workforce Census Report
- The Surgical Workforce in the New NHS Report
- Surgical Workforce 2010: Profile and Trends
- Surgical Workforce Report 2011
- UK Surgical Workforce Statistics
- The Consultant Surgeon and the Consultant-delivered Service
- The High Performing Surgical Team
- The Higher Risk General Surgical Patient: Towards improved care for a forgotten group
- Theory to Theatre
- Thyroidectomy
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMJ) - Commissioning Guide
- Tomorrow's Leaders
- National Prospective Tonsillectomy Audit Final Report
- Tonsillectomy - Commissioning Guide
- Total Hip Replacement
- Total Knee Replacement
- Treatment of Painful Tingling Fingers - Commissioning Guide
- Undergraduate Curriculum
- Using Social Media - A Practical and Ethical Guide for Surgeons
- Varicose Veins - Commissioning Guide
- Weight Assessment and Management Tier Services - Commissioning Guide
- Wisdom Teeth Extraction
- Workforce Report