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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.

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RCSEd launches campaign to drive awareness of mental health in surgery

Published: 27 September 2021 | Tags:

mental health

Surgery

The College is delighted to announce the launch of our Moon and Back initiative, a campaign created to highlight the issue of mental health in surgery and raising awareness to start the conversation.

Press Statement: RCSEd President responds to national survey results

Published: 24 September 2021 | Tags:

Healthcare

NHS

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is alarmed at the revelations contained in the leaked national survey results as described in the Health Service Journal. President of the College, Professor Michael Griffin, said: At a time when the pressures of the pandemic are still upon us, and the backlog of elective care is causing further stress…

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UK and Ireland’s surgical Royal Colleges sharing their concern at Northern Ireland’s alarming waiting lists

Published: 16 September 2021

A letter from the four presidents of the UK and Ireland’s surgical Royal Colleges sharing their concern at Northern Ireland’s alarming waiting lists and to request an urgent meeting.

College Commemorations

Published: 13 September 2021

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is saddened to hear of the death of several of our long-standing Retired Fellows and other great leaders within the surgical profession. We commemorate their service to healthcare and their patients, and offer our deepest sympathies to their family, friends and life-long colleagues.

Press Statement: Update from the RCSEd Policy and Public Affairs

Published: 10 September 2021

Over the summer the policy team has been very busy working across the four nations of the UK. We have written to the new Secretary of State Sajid Javid and his newly appointed counterparts in Scotland, Humza Yousaf, and Wales, Eluned Morgan, to congratulate them on their new roles and to introduce the College. We also wrote to Amanda Pritchard, the…

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