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08 Mar 2022
Dame Sarah Gilbert and Baroness Floella Benjamin today received Honorary Fellowships from The Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for their contributions to dentistry. They were given the prestigious awards at the FDS’s Diplomates Ceremony, at the College’s flagship building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
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08 Mar 2022
Today the Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid, gave a speech setting out his vision for long-term NHS reform. Professor Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has commented on this.
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01 Mar 2022
The President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England has expressed solidarity and support with the people of Ukraine.
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25 Feb 2022
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has described today’s waiting figures in Northern Ireland as challenging. New waiting time figures, released this morning (Feb 24, 2022) cover October through to December 2021 and paint a grim picture for patients in Northern Ireland.
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17 Feb 2022
Leading surgeons in Wales have highlighted the risk of a postcode lottery of care for people waiting for an operation without strong direction from Welsh Government for the recovery of elective surgery.
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10 Feb 2022
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned a ‘big challenge’ lies ahead for the NHS to eliminate the number of people waiting more than two years for consultant-led hospital treatment by July.
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20 Jan 2022
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has responded to figures, published today, showing the number of patients waiting for treatment in Wales has reached a record 682,279.
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13 Jan 2022
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has expressed ‘grave concern’ that more than 2 million people have been waiting over the statutory 18 weeks for NHS hospital treatment. Today’s figures also report a record total waiting list, with 6 million patients waiting for consultant-led hospital treatment. This is the highest figure since records began in August 2007.
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06 Jan 2022
The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has today published a report into ‘Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic’. After giving evidence to the inquiry last year, the Royal College of Surgeons of England is welcoming the report and its recommendations.
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22 Dec 2021
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has launched a ‘Winter Appeal’ to support the development of a unique medical media library that reflects the true diversity of the population.
