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Press Releases

  • Dental surgeons respond to NHS Dental Recovery Plan

    07 Feb 2024 NHS England has today (7 February) published a new Dental Recovery Plan which it says will see patients benefit from millions more NHS dental appointments over the next year. The plans are supported by £200 million of funding from the government.

  • New initiative to tackle ‘culture of silence’ among surgeons after adverse events

    05 Feb 2024 The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) will today (January 29) launch a new collaborative to support surgeons’ wellbeing after adverse events. Adverse events and complications, including those that seriously impact a patient's health, are an inevitable aspect of surgical life. As well as impacting patients and their families, the surgeon and the surgical team can be profoundly affected, but for too long, many surgeons have remained silent about the mental distress they experience.

  • RCS England responds to The Times Health Commission report

    05 Feb 2024 Mr Tim Mitchell, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England welcomes The Times Health Commission report.

  • Dental surgeons respond to new data on oral health of children in Year 6

    01 Feb 2024 The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has today (1 February) published the findings of its oral health survey of schoolchildren in Year 6. Dr Charlotte Eckhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, responded to the findings.

  • RCS England responds to new GMC standards coming into effect

    31 Jan 2024 The General Medical Council's (GMC) updated version of Good medical practice, which details the principles, values and standards expected of doctors working in the UK, will come into effect today (30 January).

  • Stormont statement

    31 Jan 2024 The Royal College of Surgeons of England Northern Ireland Director Niall McGonigle has welcomed news that the DUP have agreed a deal with the UK government and are set to return to Stormont’s power-sharing Executive.

  • Waiting times in Wales see small fall as surgeons say accessing operating theatres is a major challenge

    18 Jan 2024 Surgeons have warned that problems accessing operating theatres are contributing to long waiting times for hospital treatment across the UK, including in Wales. The warning comes as the latest data for Wales show a small fall in waiting times in November 2023, with the figure having fluctuated between rising and falling for a number of months.

  • More than half of UK surgical workforce says access to operating theatres is a major challenge 

    18 Jan 2024 The President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has said that problems accessing operating theatres are contributing to long waiting times for hospital treatment across the UK.  A census conducted by RCS England found more than half (56%) of the UK surgical workforce find that operating theatre access is a major challenge. Worryingly, that figure rises to 61% for all surgical trainees – meaning they are missing valuable training time.

  • NHS waiting list in England falls again

    11 Jan 2024 The NHS waiting list for consultant-led hospital treatment in England has fallen again, down to 7.6 million at the end of November 2023, according to NHS performance data published today (11 January).

  • Boost staff morale and hospital discharges to tackle waiting times, surgeons warn

    21 Dec 2023 Surgeons have warned that the rising number of patient pathways on the list for treatment in Wales and substantial winter pressures on staff must serve as a wake-up call for the Welsh government and NHS leaders to accelerate the pace of change.

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