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19 Oct 2023
Surgeons have urged the Welsh government to roll out a long-term approach to tackling the increase in waiting times after newly released data showed NHS waiting lists in Wales jumped again to 760,285 in August 2023.
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12 Oct 2023
Surgeons are warning again, in the run up to winter, that patients left to wait months and months for treatment may see their health deteriorate further, as a result of NHS waiting lists rising again.
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10 Oct 2023
Mr Niall McGonigle, Northern Ireland Director of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, has welcomed a new report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office on waiting lists.
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06 Oct 2023
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04 Oct 2023
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21 Sep 2023
New data published today shows that the waiting list for referral to treatment in Wales has risen again, with the figure for July 2023 sitting at 757,355.
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21 Sep 2023
Commenting on the Liberal Democrats research (House of Commons Library) that states - ‘over 4.4 million children in England have not seen an NHS dentist for at least a year’ - Dr Charlotte Eckhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said:
“This situation is simply not acceptable. Children and young people should be visiting the dentist at least once a year to prevent serious tooth decay.
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14 Sep 2023
Surgeons have warned that patients left to wait months and months for treatment may see their health deteriorate further as a result of the peak in NHS waiting lists.
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12 Sep 2023
For the first time, new research from the University of Exeter and University of Surrey as part of their involvement with the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery has now revealed the extent of sexual misconduct by colleagues - including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape - within the UK surgical workforce in the last five years.
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31 Aug 2023
Surgical robotics company CMR Surgical has received Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) accreditation for its Versius Surgical Robotic System training programme, after the recent introduction of its world-first VR simulator training Versius Trainer.
