Featured News Items
RCSEd Fellows and Members Celebrated in King’s Birthday Honours List 2024
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is proud to celebrate many of our Fellows and Members who have been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024 for their achievements and service across a wide range of healthcare.
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.
RCSEd Welcomes Election Focus on NHS Dentistry
We are delighted that dentistry is being taken seriously by all the parties in the election and has featured in many manifestos and media interviews.
Other RCSEd News
RCSEd President Writes a Letter to Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee on Sexual Safety in Surgery
- Published: 1 November 2023
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh President, Professor Rowan Parks, writes to The Rt. Hon. Caroline Nokes MP, Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, on Sexual Safety in Surgery
Press Statement: Leading Dental Experts Welcome Scottish Payment System Reform
- Published: 1 November 2023 | Tags:
- Dental
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Faculty of Dental Surgery has welcomed a major reform of the payment system for NHS dentistry in Scotland which comes into force as of 1st November 2023. The former ‘item of service’ funding model, which disproportionately emphasised treatment over prevention, is now being replaced with a more streamlin…
Press Statement: RCSEd Dental Faculty responds to the increase in complaints around NHS dentistry
- Published: 31 October 2023 | Tags:
- Dentistry
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
- NHS
The Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is concerned at today’s report that the NHS Ombudsman is seeing record numbers of complaints about dentistry. Grant McIntyre, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry commented: This is worrying news, but sadly not surprising. NHS Dentistry is under huge pressure, and it is our patients …
Press Statement: RCSEd Welcomes Proposed Plans to a Smokefree Generation
- Published: 20 October 2023
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh welcomes the proposed measures to create a smokefree generation. RCSEd President Professor Rowan Parks commented: Illnesses caused by smoking, including lung cancer, remain a leading cause of death in the UK and wider world. As well as the increased risk of developing a range of diseases, smokers also …
Press Statement: The RCSEd Faculty of Dental Surgery Responds to Labour Party policy on NHS Dentistry
- Published: 13 October 2023
The Faculty of Dental Surgery at RCSEd is encouraged by the outline plan for NHS dentistry proposed by the Labour Party , should they form the next Westminster government. Changing the focus of care to prevention and starting the journey of prevention through a supervised toothbrushing programme for young children are positive steps forwards, albei…
News Tags
- Affiliation (4)
- Annual General Meeting (3)
- Awards (7)
- Brexit (1)
- Bullying (1)
- College (23)
- College Council (6)
- Courses (3)
- COVID-19 (67)
- Dental (49)
- Dental Ambassador (2)
- Dental Council (4)
- Dental Dean (1)
- Dental Skills Competition (2)
- Dentistry (8)
- Diploma Ceremony (1)
- Education (3)
- Elections (2)
- ENT (3)
- Exams (16)
- Faculties (63)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery (3)
- Faculty of Dental Trainers (2)
- Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (3)
- Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare (3)
- Fellows (19)
- Fellowship (13)
- Global Conference (1)
- GMC (1)
- government (2)
- Grants (2)
- Guidance (1)
- Health and Social Care (1)
- health education england (1)
- Healthcare (7)
- Heritage (1)
- Honours List (5)
- ICBSE (3)
- Immediate Medical Care (3)
- international (3)
- ISCP (2)
- JCST (3)
- king's Birthday Honours List (2)
- leadership (1)
- Library (1)
- Library and Archive (1)
- Malaysia (1)
- Managed Voluntary Register (1)
- Manuscript (1)
- Medical (1)
- Medical Associate Professions (1)
- medical education (1)
- Members (10)
- membership (5)
- Membership (5)
- membership fees (1)
- mental health (1)
- mfds (2)
- MRCS (8)
- MRCS Exam (3)
- MVR (1)
- NHS (12)
- NHS England (8)
- NHS Scotland (5)
- NHS Wales (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)
- Workforce (3)
- Younger Fellows Committee (1)
Current Issue
June 2024
Back Issues
-
June 2022
-
March 2022
-
December 2021
-
September 2021
-
March 2021
-
December 2020
