Members' News
Open letter to trainee members
We will continue to speak truth to power on the challenges both you and your patients are facing in the NHS, and redouble our efforts to support your rights to high quality training and a just and acceptable working life.
Latest News
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The results are in: Your first directly elected President
12 Feb 2026 In a historic first, you – our surgical members and fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England – have elected Tim Lane as your new President. He will take office in July 2026, when your current President, Tim Mitchell, steps down at the end of his three-year term. -
Changes to the Dental Specialty Membership Examinations
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You can't create consultants by cutting the doctors who become them
26 Jan 2026 The Health Service Journal (HSJ), widely read by NHS managers, has published an opinion piece by HSJ editor Alistair McLellan that suggests the NHS is ‘over-reliant’ on resident doctors. Mr Raiyyan Aftab, President of the Association of Surgeons in Training, and Mr Tim Mitchell, President of RCS England, respond.
Featured Blog
Gender gap in surgery
"Whilst on the surface it appears that the gender gap in medicine as a whole is decreasing or perhaps even inverting, in surgery the statistics tell a different story."
Featured Article
Complications and errors
All surgical procedures carry the potential for adverse events. The latest issue of the Bulletin asks: Do surgeons need support - and, if so, what kind?