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31 Oct 2017
New analysis by the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at The Royal College of Surgeons has found that there were almost twice as many cases of children requiring hospital treatment for tooth decay as for asthma last year. This is despite tooth decay being easily preventable in 90% of cases. Asthma is not a preventable disease.
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24 Oct 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons has responded to an NHS Improvement study due to be published later this week which says NHS hospitals could carry out 280,000 more non-emergency operations a year by organising operating theatre schedules better.
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20 Oct 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has today warned the health service in Northern Ireland is failing patients waiting for planned treatment and that the current political instability is undermining efforts to reduce unacceptably long waits.
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12 Oct 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has today praised NHS staff for the hard work they have put into reducing waiting times for planned treatment over the last 10 years. But it has warned this now risks being undone unless more help is given to hospitals and social care providers to reduce delayed transfers of care.
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12 Oct 2017
Royal College of Surgeons President, Professor Derek Alderson has been appointed to a new panel set up by NHS England, Public Health England, the Department of Health and NHS Improvement, to respond to pressures on the NHS this winter.
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12 Oct 2017
The Department of Health has today announced that it has launched a consultation on the regulation of Medical Associate Professions (MAPs). The four roles that make up this group are: Physician Associates (PA), Physicians’ Assistants (Anaesthesia) (PA(A)), Surgical Care Practitioners (SCP) and Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCP).
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29 Sep 2017
Cuts to hospital beds in England required for overnight stays following planned surgery have gone too far and will make dealing with winter pressures more difficult, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.
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26 Sep 2017
A pilot training programme for surgical trainees is to expand to include urology and vascular surgery.
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14 Sep 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons has warned today that unless hospitals and local authorities work together to improve handover of patients and significantly reduce delayed transfers of care the NHS will struggle to free up enough hospital beds to cope with winter pressures.
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30 Aug 2017
Freedom of Information requests of waiting times data in Wales made by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) have found that in March 2017 the number of patients waiting more than a year (52 weeks) for surgical treatment was 3,605 – a rise of over 400% in four years. In March 2013, 699 patients were waiting more than a year for treatment.
