Press Releases

11 Jul 2024 Close to the Bone is a series of powerful black and white photographs which document the experience of four patients (Gabor, Jessica, Vincent and Christine) with sarcoma, before, during and after surgery.

20 Jun 2024 Surgeons are calling on the next Government to commit to a £6.4 billion annual funding increase to upgrade NHS facilities to reduce NHS waiting lists to pre-pandemic level. The call comes as NHS performance data published today shows the waiting list for consultant-led hospital treatment in England rose to 7,572,563.

13 Jun 2024 Surgeons are calling on the next Government to commit to a £6.4 billion annual funding increase to upgrade NHS facilities to reduce NHS waiting lists to pre-pandemic level. The call comes as NHS performance data published today shows the waiting list for consultant-led hospital treatment in England rose to 7,572,563.

30 May 2024 Surgeons have called for a recurrent and protected budget to tackle Northern Ireland’s dismal waiting times. The Royal College of Surgeons of England is extremely concerned by the long waits for treatment patients continue to endure.

23 May 2024 New data published today (23 May) shows that the waiting list for referral to consultant-led treatment in Wales has seen another increase, with the figure for March 2024 sitting at 768,899, up from 762,522 in February 2024.  

09 May 2024 Cancelled operations data show over 4,770 people were not treated within 28 days of operation being cancelled, breaching national target. The Royal College of Surgeons in England is calling for more dedicated surgical hubs to reduce waiting lists and ensure planned operations can proceed as scheduled.

25 Apr 2024 RCS England President, Mr Tim Mitchell, responds to NHS England’s ‘Improving the working lives of Doctors in Training’

23 Apr 2024 Second-year core surgical trainees, Andrew Ang, who is based at The Royal Berkshire Hospital and Ada Krzak, based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, won the prestigious Louis Solomon Knights Award for Surgical Skills at the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s national surgical skills competition.

18 Apr 2024 New data published today (18 April) shows that the waiting list for referral to treatment in Wales is on the rise again with the figure for February 2024 sitting at just over 763,105, up from over 754,814 in January 2024.

11 Apr 2024 NHS England referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times for consultant-led elective care have remained stable in February 2024.