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20 Jul 2023
Commenting on the Liberal Democrats’ research on children’s dental surgery, Dr Charlotte Eckhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said:
“We welcome the recovery of dental services after the pandemic and congratulate the community for their hard work. However, if children are waiting over a year in pain to have rotten teeth removed, there clearly remains some very worrying access issues, which the Government needs to address."
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14 Jul 2023
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13 Jul 2023
NHS performance data published today (13 July) show the waiting list for NHS consultant-led hospital treatment has grown again to a record 7,472,052. There are also concerns that the recovery of waiting lists for children is not keeping pace with that of adults.
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12 Jul 2023
Whilst much of the initial focus around elective recovery has been on reducing the adult surgical waiting list, we are concerned that children’s waiting lists are now increasing at double the rate of adult lists, while surgical activity lags behind adult activity.
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30 Jun 2023
The full plan is due to be published later today and we will analyse what this will mean for surgeons and the whole surgical team. However, it is worth marking the historic moment that it is.
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28 Jun 2023
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) of England Northern Ireland Director Professor Mark Taylor is stepping down after five years at the helm. The Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgeon took up the Northern Ireland College role in 2018 and will formally demit as Northern Ireland Director in September.
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23 Jun 2023
RCS England President, Professor Neil Mortensen, responds to the General Medical Council (GMC) report ‘The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2023’
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22 Jun 2023
Surgeons have urged that there is ‘no time to lose’ after newly released data showed NHS waiting lists in Wales jumped again to 743,339 in April 2023.
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15 Jun 2023
RCS England President, Professor Neil Mortensen responds to NHS England announcement that retired doctors will have an option to re-join the NHS.
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15 Jun 2023
Professor Mark Taylor, Northern Ireland Director of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) responds to Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO) report ‘Forgotten - An investigation into healthcare waiting list communications’.
