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06 Apr 2018
An unacceptable number of patients are waiting longer than two years for treatment in Northern Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has warned today. Some patients have waited at least four years from first referral to treatment, and the number of patients waiting over two years is much higher than in England.
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05 Apr 2018
The Royal College of Surgeons has responded to news the Duke of Edinburgh has undergone a successful hip replacement operation.
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03 Apr 2018
The Royal College of Surgeons has responded to news that the Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital in central London for planned surgery on his hip. At this stage it is not known what type of hip operation the Duke of Edinburgh is due to undergo.
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01 Apr 2018
The Government's Soft Drinks Industry Levy will come into affect on Friday 6 April 2018. The Faculty of Dental Surgery has previously welcomed the levy and called for some of the money generated to be used for children's oral health programmes.
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08 Mar 2018
Over 62,000 fewer NHS treatments, including surgical operations, were performed by consultants this winter (November - January) compared to the previous winter, analysis by the Royal College of Surgeons shows.
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07 Mar 2018
The Royal College of Surgeons has said it strongly welcomes news that the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has revoked restrictions on David Sellu’s practice and ruled that no tribunal considering his fitness to practise can proceed.
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01 Mar 2018
“The GIRFT Vascular report shows that many patients with potentially fatal conditions can wait far too long before they see a consultant vascular surgeon. It also demonstrates great variation in provision of care across the country which does not need to be the case."
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22 Feb 2018
The General Medical Council has today announced that Dame Clare Marx, past president of the Royal College of Surgeons, will chair a review of how manslaughter by gross negligence is applied to medical practice across the four nations of the UK.
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22 Feb 2018
Northern Ireland Department of Health waiting time statistics published today show patients are still waiting too long for surgery. Data for the quarter from October to the end of December 2017 show 61.2% of patients were waiting longer than 13 weeks to be admitted for inpatient or day case treatment. For the same period, 19.1% (almost one in five) of patients waited more than 52 weeks to be admitted for inpatient or day case treatment. In total, this number was 14,979.
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18 Feb 2018
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has called on NHS England to stop clinical commissioning groups from imposing minimum waiting times. A freedom of information request by the RCS found that certain patients in Lincolnshire must wait at least three months for non-urgent surgery under minimum waiting times rules imposed at some hospitals. Surgeons are concerned that minimum waiting times will leave patients waiting in pain and discomfort for an unnecessarily long time and make it difficult for health providers to meet the Government’s 18-week target for planned surgery.
