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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.
Other RCSEd News
Press Statement: RCSEd notes concern on postponement of the Immigration Bill 2019-21
- Published: 19 January 2021
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh notes with concern the postponement of the second reading of the Immigration (Health and Social Care Staff) Bill 2019-21 today. This Bill would grant indefinite right to remain to those overseas doctors who have been serving on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic. The College has been calling for mo…
Joint Letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Published: 16 January 2021 | Tags:
- COVID-19
- Health and Social Care
- rcsed
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, along with the Medical Protection Society, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin Chairman of the Board, Medical Defence Shield, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association and the The Doctors’ Association have signed a joint letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding emergency legislation needed to protect healthcare professionals at risk of inappropriate legal challenge when treating COVID-19 patients.
Update from RCSEd Policy and Public Affairs Team
- Published: 14 January 2021 | Tags:
- College Council
- COVID-19
- Dental
- Policy
- Public Affairs
- rcsed
- Surgical
- Vaccine
Over the past month the Policy Team lead on the College's response to Sir Michael Marmot's review of the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities.
Press Statement: Leading surgeon warns resumption of elective surgery will depend on adherence to lockdown rules
- Published: 14 January 2021
A leading surgeon is urging members of the public to stick to the latest lockdown guidelines as strictly as possible in a bid to get control of the virus and to allow elective surgery to get back up and running. Professor Michael Griffin OBE, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, believes the next eight weeks are crucial in …
Press Statement: Statement from RCSEd President Michael Griffin on Cancelled Operations
- Published: 14 January 2021
Reacting to last NHS England figures that show 4.46 million people were waiting to start hospital treatment in England at the end of November 2020, with almost 200,000 people waiting more than a year for an operation, Professor Michael Griffin, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh said: We are naturally concerned with the size…
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