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31 Aug 2023
Surgeons have warned that “successful elective recovery is even harder” as new figures released today show Northern Ireland’s outpatient and diagnostic waiting times have jumped massively again.
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31 Aug 2023
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has appointed consultant thoracic surgeon Mr Niall McGonigle as its new Northern Ireland Director.
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22 Aug 2023
The General Medical Council (GMC) has today published an update of Good medical practice, which details the principles, values and standards expected of doctors working in the UK. It is the first major update to the guidance in 10 years.
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10 Aug 2023
NHS figures published today show 17,024 operations were cancelled at the last minute in the three months to the end of June 2023, as the total waiting list for NHS consultant-led hospital treatment increased to another record high of 7.6 million.
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20 Jul 2023
The Royal College of Surgeons of England has reacted with concern to the rise in waiting times in May. New figures show that NHS waiting lists in Wales increased for a third successive month to 748,395.
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20 Jul 2023
The three-year collaboration is another step in RCS England’s pioneering work to shape the Future of Surgery. The aim is to accelerate the safe integration of RAS into healthcare nationally and to support surgeons at all levels of training and experience to become proficient in RAS.
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20 Jul 2023
Commenting on the Liberal Democrats’ research on children’s dental surgery, Dr Charlotte Eckhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said:
“We welcome the recovery of dental services after the pandemic and congratulate the community for their hard work. However, if children are waiting over a year in pain to have rotten teeth removed, there clearly remains some very worrying access issues, which the Government needs to address."
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14 Jul 2023
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13 Jul 2023
NHS performance data published today (13 July) show the waiting list for NHS consultant-led hospital treatment has grown again to a record 7,472,052. There are also concerns that the recovery of waiting lists for children is not keeping pace with that of adults.
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12 Jul 2023
Whilst much of the initial focus around elective recovery has been on reducing the adult surgical waiting list, we are concerned that children’s waiting lists are now increasing at double the rate of adult lists, while surgical activity lags behind adult activity.
