Featured News Items
RCSEd Voices Concerns over SCPs Performing High-Risk Surgery
As an organisation focused on improving standards of surgical care and patient outcomes, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is extremely concerned about the recent publication in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) (“Laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed by a surgical care practitioner: a review of outcomes”) detailing the experience of a Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP) performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies.
In a landmark collaboration aimed at addressing the critical shortage of skilled surgical care in conflict and disaster zones, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is teaming up with the David Nott Foundation (DNF) to later this year host their Hostile Environment Surgical Training UK (HEST-UK) course at the College in Edinburgh.
Nominations Open for Trainee member of Council 2024
Nominations are invited for this key opportunity for the opinion of our Trainee membership to influence College policy in the future on a wide range of issues including training, education, assessment and future service delivery. The Trainee member of Council also co-chairs the Trainee Committee during their term of office.
Other RCSEd News
Annual General Meeting 2023
- Published: 14 September 2023 | Tags:
- AGM
- Annual General Meeting
- college
- fellows
- Members
The next Annual General Meeting of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh will take place in a hybrid format at 12.30pm on Friday 17 November 2023.
JCST Statement on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery
- Published: 13 September 2023
The findings of the survey conducted by the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery, published today in BJS, are truly shocking. Working with the four surgical royal colleges, JCST is committed to a zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct. We will actively work to eradicate this behaviour in surgery and healthcare.
Surgical Royal Colleges Comment on Report on Sexual Misconduct
The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery has today (Tuesday 12 September), published its findings.
Press Release: The Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Donates £1 Million to establish the RCSEd Dr Li Shu Fan International Professorship
- Published: 11 September 2023
The Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation of Hong Kong (the Foundation) and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) have made an announcement regarding the donation of £1 million (equivalent to approximately HK$10 million) from the Foundation to RCSEd. The donation will be allocated towards the establishment of the RCSEd Dr Li Shu Fan Interna…
Results of the 2023 RCSEd Council Elections
- Published: 1 September 2023
After a recent ballot of the College’s membership, the College is pleased to announce the following appointments to Council.
News Tags
- Adopt-a-Book (1)
- affiliate network (2)
- Affiliation (2)
- AGM (3)
- allied health professionals (1)
- Annual General Meeting (2)
- award (1)
- Awards (3)
- Brexit (1)
- Bullying (1)
- CEO (2)
- ceremony (1)
- chennai (1)
- Chennai (1)
- clinical (1)
- college (20)
- Communication (1)
- conference (3)
- Conference (3)
- council (6)
- Council (6)
- Courses (3)
- COVID-19 (66)
- Dental (48)
- dental ambassador (2)
- dental council (2)
- Dental Dean (1)
- dental professionals (3)
- Dental Skills Competition (2)
- Dental Students (1)
- Dentistry (7)
- diploma (2)
- Diploma Ceremony (1)
- Doctors (2)
- do-hns (3)
- DOHNS (1)
- Dosage Regimen (1)
- editor (1)
- Education (3)
- Elections (2)
- elective care (1)
- ENT (3)
- Events (2)
- EWTR (1)
- Exam (5)
- Examinations (1)
- Exams (10)
- Faculties (53)
- Faculty (10)
- faculty of dental surgery (3)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery (3)
- Faculty of Dental Trainers (2)
- Faculty of pre-hospital care (2)
- Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (2)
- Faculty of Remote Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare (1)
- FDS (1)
- FDT (1)
- fellow (2)
- Fellow (2)
- fellows (16)
- Fellows (16)
- fellowship (11)
- Fellowship (11)
- fellowships (1)
- fphc (2)
- FRRHH (2)
- future surgeons (1)
- general dental council (2)
- Global Conference (1)
- GMC (1)
- government (2)
- Grant (1)
- grants (1)
- Grants (1)
- Guidance (1)
- Health (1)
- Health and Social Care (1)
- health education england (1)
- healthcare (7)
- Healthcare (7)
- healthcare workers (1)
- hee (2)
- Heritage (1)
- Honorary Secretary (1)
- honorary treasurer (1)
- Honours List (4)
- ICBSE (3)
- Immediate Medical Care (3)
- international (3)
- ISCP (1)
- JCST (2)
- king's birthday honours list (1)
- leadership (1)
- Library (1)
- Library and Archive (1)
- life support (1)
- lockdown (1)
- Malaysia (1)
- Managed Voluntary Register (1)
- Manuscript (1)
- Medical (1)
- Medical Associate Professions (1)
- medical education (1)
- member (2)
- Members (9)
- membership (3)
- Membership (3)
- membership fees (1)
- men's mental health (1)
- mental health (1)
- mfds (2)
- MRCS (8)
- MRCS Exam (3)
- MVR (1)
- NHS (11)
- NHS England (8)
- NHS Scotland (5)
- nhs wales (1)
- offer (1)
- Ophthalmology (3)
- Orthodontics (1)
- Orthopaedic (2)
- parliament (1)
- Patient Safety (1)
- pension (1)
- Perioperative Care (3)
- Policy (5)
- PPE (1)
- Professional Opportunity (1)
- public affairs (5)
- Queen (2)
- rcsed (9)
- RCSEd Council (15)
- RCSEng (1)
- recruitment (1)
- Research (5)
- Research Fellowship (3)
- Research Report (1)
- Restrictions (1)
- Results (1)
- robotic surgery (2)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1)
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1)
- scholarships (1)
- Scottish Academy (1)
- SCPs (2)
- Staff Morale (1)
- support (1)
- surgeon (1)
- Surgeons Hall Museums (2)
- Surgeons News (2)
- surgery (2)
- Surgery (2)
- surgical (60)
- Surgical (60)
- Surgical Care Practitioners (3)
- surgical skills (1)
- Surgical Skills Competition (1)
- surgical training (7)
- Surgical Training (7)
- survey (2)
- Testing (1)
- The President (1)
- Trainees (3)
- Training (7)
- UCLan (1)
- vacancy (1)
- Vaccine (4)
- vice-president (1)
- Waiting Times (1)
- wellbeing (1)
- Workforce (3)
- younger fellow (1)
- younger fellows committee (1)
Current Issue
March 2024
Back Issues
-
June 2022
-
March 2022
-
December 2021
-
September 2021
-
March 2021
-
December 2020
