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14 June 2013 |
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 Representatives from the RCSEd have received an award from the President of the College of Surgeons, Singapore. The Distinguished Surgeon Award was made to Mr Pala Rajesh, Mr Tim Graham, Professor Malcolm Underwood, Mr Bob Jeffrey and Mr Richard Page in recognition of their commitment and contribution to the advancement of surgery in Singapore.
The award follows an invitation from Lee Chuen Neng, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the National University of Singapore, to Mr Rajesh and Mr Graham to conduct an annual course based on a similar model as the annual Birmingham Review Course. In response, the team, led by the late Mr Patrick Magee, designed the Asian Specialty Update Course in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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28 May 2013 |
The College awarded the Fellowship ad hominem to Professor Reinald Brunner at the diploma ceremony held on Friday 15 March.
Professor Brunner is a Consultant in Neuro-Orthopaedics at the Children’s University Hospital, Basel. Professor Brunner is an international and highly respected authority on the orthopaedic management of children with motor handicap and has done much to advance knowledge in this complex area.
Giving the citation, Council Member Mr Richard Montgomery said: “children’s orthopaedics offers an enormous opportunity to relieve suffering and improve the function of some of the most vulnerable and overlooked people in society. Professor Brunner has seized that opportunity with both hands, and gained an international reputation in this field.”
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28 May 2013 |
College staff have presented the Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation with a cheque for £7,133. The donation came after a year-long programme of fundraising that saw staff and council members take part in sponsored runs and cycle rides, cake and craft fayres, movie nights and more.
The RCSEd donation has helped the Sick Kids Friends Foundation in the purchase of a £53K image intensifier for the city’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
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28 May 2013 |
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On 14 May, the College announced its success in obtaining agreement that all mandatory training fees payable by all medical trainees will become tax deductible. For surgical trainees, this includes the fee payable to the Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST).
Negotiations with HMRC were led by Trainee Member of Council, Issaq Ahmed (pictured), who commented: "Although mandatory fees such as the JCST fee were not recognised as tax deductible, we firmly believed that such fees met all the guidelines set by HMRC as to what constitutes eligibility for tax deductible status.
"We set our case before HMRC and, following some months of communication and submitting evidence, our assertions were accepted. We are absolutely delighted with the outcome which will make a real difference to the amount that medical trainees have to pay throughout their medical training." |
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28 May 2013 |
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Emergency care systems in the UK & Ireland are facing their biggest challenge in well over a decade as they aim to cope with unsustainable workloads and a lack of sufficient numbers of middle grade doctors and Consultants in Emergency Medicine to deliver consistent quality care, so says a report by the College of Emergency Medicine.
In a statement, the CME said it was calling for fundamental change in the design, funding and delivery of emergency care systems.
The report, based upon the results of a comprehensive survey of 131 emergency departments in the UK between 2011 and 2012, recommends urgent action in a number of key areas of better management of workloads, changes to working practices and improved systems for measuring results.
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28 May 2013 |
The Organ Donation Taskforce has succeeded in its aim of increasing the number of deceased organ donors by 50% over five years.
The organisation set the target for the UK in 2008 following little increase in donations over the previous decade. In 2012/13, it was announced that 1,212 people donated organs in the UK, which also brought a 30% in transplants undertaken.
A new UK organ donation strategy, Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 will be launched in the summer. The strategy will build on the recommendations of the Organ Donor Taskforce and set new challenges to increase organ donation, enhance transplant outcomes and change public attitudes.
www.organdonation.nhs.uk
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