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17 Nov 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons has announced that applications for the first Improving Surgical Training (IST) programme for trainee surgeons are open. The innovative pilot training programme will provide surgical trainees with a better balance between training and service provision and professionalise the role of the surgical trainer.
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17 Nov 2017
The leaders of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) have written to surgeons in England, encouraging them to provide support at hospital front doors (e.g. rapid outpatient clinics and A&E) over the coming months as the NHS faces arguably its toughest winter in modern times. The surgeons have also called on government to make further funding available to the NHS in next week’s Budget.
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17 Nov 2017
Professor Michael Escudier, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, has commented on the sad news of Professor Jimmy Steele's passing.
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10 Nov 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is pleased to announce a partnership that will see its surgical education courses delivered at the University of Manchester. The partnership is being launched at an event this week at the University of Manchester, attended by RCS President, Professor Derek Alderson.
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09 Nov 2017
This morning’s waiting times data shows that in September 2017, the number of patients waiting longer than six months for surgery increased by 40% compared to the same time last year.
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09 Nov 2017
Professor Stephen Powis, who is currently medical director of the Royal Free Hospital, has been appointed as NHS England’s Medical Director. He will take over from Sir Bruce Keogh who steps down from the post at the end of 2017.
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08 Nov 2017
Speaking at the NHS Providers conference today, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, made a plea for the future of the NHS, saying that unless the Government made significant extra funding available to the health service in the Autumn Budget, patients would face unacceptable waits for treatment. The Royal College of Surgeons fully supports Simon Stevens’ call for extra funding for the NHS.
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31 Oct 2017
New analysis by the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at The Royal College of Surgeons has found that there were almost twice as many cases of children requiring hospital treatment for tooth decay as for asthma last year. This is despite tooth decay being easily preventable in 90% of cases. Asthma is not a preventable disease.
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24 Oct 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons has responded to an NHS Improvement study due to be published later this week which says NHS hospitals could carry out 280,000 more non-emergency operations a year by organising operating theatre schedules better.
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20 Oct 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has today warned the health service in Northern Ireland is failing patients waiting for planned treatment and that the current political instability is undermining efforts to reduce unacceptably long waits.