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RCSEd Fellows and Members Celebrated in King’s Birthday Honours List 2024

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

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

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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Press Statement: RCSEd Responds to Health and Social Care Select Committee’s statement on NHS Pressures

RCSEd Responds to Health and Social Care Select Committee’s statement on NHS Pressures - Read more

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh agrees wholeheartedly with the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s statement that excessive workloads caused by staff shortages are putting NHS staff, patients and the services they rely on at risk. President of the College, Professor Michael Griffin said: We have been saying for some time that w…



Voting in the Dental Council Elections Opens Soon

Voting in the Dental Council Elections Opens Soon - Read more

Earlier this month The Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) closed the nominations for the Members of Dental Council vacancies and voting in the elections will be available soon.



ICBSE Statement on 2021 MRCS Part A April Results

ICBSE Statement on 2021 MRCS Part A April Results - Read more

The results of the intercollegiate MRCS Part A examination held on 20 April 2021 have been published today.



Launch of Day One Trauma Support

Launch of Day One Trauma Support - Read more

Day One Trauma Support announced its official launch as the first national independent charity supporting survivors of major traumatic injuries on UK-wide scale.



RCSEd echoes call from BMA to extend the exemption in place for nurses coming from red list countries with regards to quarantine to doctors

RCSEd echoes call from BMA to extend the exemption in place for nurses coming from red list countries with regards to quarantine to doctors - Read more

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh echoes the call from the BMA to extend the exemption currently in place for nurses coming from red list countries with regards to quarantine to doctors.





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