Press releases

12 Jul 2018 Critical care services in Wales are to receive a new annual £15 million fund, the Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced today (12 July). The Royal College of Surgeons welcomes the announcement and hope the Welsh Government will now move at pace, so that patients quickly feel the benefit of the extra funding.

12 Jul 2018 The number of patients waiting longer than 6 months to start planned NHS hospital treatment has now officially exceeded 200,000. NHS England ‘referral to treatment’ (RTT) statistics for May 2018 published today show that 211,324 patients waited more than 6 months to start planned treatment. The number of patients waiting more than 6 months for treatment is 48.4% higher than the same time last year.

11 Jul 2018 The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme has today (11 July) published its report on urology in England. The Royal College of Surgeons is supportive of the recommendations put forward by GIFRT.

25 Jun 2018 “We warmly welcome the measures that have been announced by the Government today. Excessive sugar consumption is a major cause of both obesity and tooth decay, so these new policies will make a significant contribution to addressing the poor state of children’s oral health in this country, where nearly a quarter of five year olds have decayed teeth."

19 Jun 2018 Older women with breast cancer must be offered treatments that will give them the best possible outcome, a leading surgeon has said today, as new data suggests women over 70 are less likely to undergo surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy than women aged 50 to 69.

14 Jun 2018 The number of patients waiting longer than the recommended 18 weeks to start planned NHS hospital treatment has officially exceeded 500,000 – the highest number in almost a decade.

11 Jun 2018 The Welsh Government has published its long-term plan for the future of health and social care in Wales, A Healthier Wales, today (Monday 11 June).

11 Jun 2018 The Royal College of Surgeons has responded to an independent policy review report on ‘Gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare’ published today. The review was led by the former RCS President, Professor Sir Norman Williams.

06 Jun 2018 The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, will officially open the Royal College of Surgeons’ new Outreach hub at the University of Manchester Innovation Centre today (6 June). The new hub will give the RCS a full-time, staffed presence in the North and Midlands.

31 May 2018 The Royal College of Surgeons has worked with a number of royal colleges, led by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to present a united and detailed response to the 96 recommendations of Justice O’Hara’s report on Hyponatremia related deaths in Northern Ireland, which is published today.