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16 Jul 2020
Professor Neil Mortensen, who has just become the new President at the Royal College of Surgeons of England has announced that the distinguished barrister and member of the House of Lords, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, will chair an independent review of diversity in the College’s professional leadership.
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15 Jul 2020
Ahead of the Prime Minister’s imminent plans to address obesity in the UK, the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDS) joins Action on Sugar, Action on Salt and 46 other leading health charities urging him to implement the Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan.
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09 Jul 2020
The Royal College of Surgeons of England today (Thursday) said that what they described in Spring as a ‘time bomb’ under surgical waiting lists had ‘already detonated’, and called for a ‘plan for recovery’. Today’s NHS England waiting times figures show that the number of patients who have now waited over 52 weeks more than doubled from last month, and has increased by 16 times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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08 Jul 2020
The Royal College of Surgeons of England is urging government to act upon recommendations made by Baroness Cumberlege, following her independent review into the use of pelvic mesh and other technologies.
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03 Jul 2020
The Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England today welcomes the Government’s commitment to include education of oral health in its reforms to the early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework.
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02 Jul 2020
Giving evidence at the Senedd Health, Social Care and Sport Committee this morning, the Royal College of Surgeons has called for Welsh Government to make development of ‘COVID-light’ sites their key healthcare priority.
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02 Jul 2020
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS Eng) has published best practice guidance on conducting virtual consultations, as new data shows the vast majority of surgeons have used telephone or video conferencing facilities to treat patients during the pandemic.
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26 Jun 2020
With more than one million people waiting over 18 weeks for hospital treatment, a new survey of 1,741 UK surgeons finds one third have been unable to re-start surgery.
This comes one month after NHS England outlined how elective surgery should safely be able to resume.
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19 Jun 2020
The Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England is delighted to announce that Mr Matthew Garrett has taken office as its new Dean. He was elected to the role by the Faculty’s Board in October, and will serve a three year term to 2023.
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16 Jun 2020
The Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) have issued a joint memorandum to MPs calling for urgent action to help the NHS recover from COVID.