All Royal College of Surgeons articles – Page 7
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CommentTrainee doctors shouldn't opt out of the working time directive
The long and short of junior doctors’ hours
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CommentReshape guidelines on body contouring surgery to best treat obese patients
After weight loss surgery
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NewsHEE puts spotlight on patient safety education
Health Education England has appointed a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons to head a panel tasked with embedding patient safety in healthcare training.
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CommentProtecting urgent patients not covered by targets is easier said than done
It isn’t happening consistently
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CommentWhen localism tips into a postcode lottery
With CCGs ignoring national guidelines, the ‘N’ in NHS is shaky
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NewsSurgeons call for review of 18 week waiting target
The NHS commitment to carry out routine operations within 18 weeks of referral by a GP should be reviewed, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons said.
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NewsCourse closure dents Maidstone's surgical training ambition
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust
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HSJ LocalMaidstone and Tunbridge challenges critical CQC report
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust
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HSJ Local
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells specialist cancer surgery suspended
PERFORMANCE: Patients from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area are being sent to St Thomas’ Hospital in London for upper gastro intestinal cancer surgery procedures amid concerns about services in the area, it has emerged.
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NewsRoyal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese.
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NewsFamily demands inquiry over liver surgery deaths
Health chiefs are being urged to publish the results of an inquiry which caused a top flight liver surgeon to be banned from carrying out operations.
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NewsRCS calls for urgent Welsh hospitals probe
The Royal College of Surgeons has called for an urgent review of all hospitals in Wales amid “public anxiety” over standards of NHS care.
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NewsReport calls for training changes
Doctors’ training must change to meet the needs of an ageing population, according to a major review.
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NewsNHS England plans stricter guidelines on consultant data
NHS England faces running into further consultant opposition after it emerged it wants to impose stricter publishing guidelines on royal colleges for next year’s consultant performance data.
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NewsVascular surgeon data ‘misrepresented’ by media
Questions have been raised about how data relating to individual surgeons’ mortality rates has been presented, both by the body that prepared it and the media.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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NewsOpt-out doctors 'will be named'
Doctors who decide not to disclose details of their performance will be “named and shamed” by the government, it has emerged.
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NewsDoctors 'can opt out' of tables
Doctors will be given the opportunity to opt out of new league tables assessing their performance, it has emerged.
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NewsRCS hails 'watershed' publication of surgeon performance data
Giving patients access to information about how well their surgeons perform is a “watershed” moment for surgery, leading doctors have said.
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HSJ KnowledgeA surgical approach to value-based commissioning
Establishing guidelines for a wide range of procedures