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19 February 2013 |
The RCSEd has pledged its support to NHS Change Day, on 13 March 2013. The day will mark the single largest improvement event in the NHS to date. The aim is to mobilise 65,000 NHS staff to take action voluntarily to demonstrate their commitment to improving patient care.
Pledges can be as simple as spending time with patients to ask for their feedback, altering the way a routine task is carried out or supporting campaigns such as Drink Matters or the Sepsis Six. It is hoped that NHS Change Day will act as a unifying opportunity for groups to overcome potential bureaucracies and inertias.
For more information or to pledge support, visit: www.changemodel.nhs.uk
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19 February 2013 |
On 6 February, Robert Francis QC published the report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, making 290 recommendations for improvement.
In a statement, the RCSEd commented: “Now is the time for all of us who are involved in healthcare to acknowledge the multiple failings outlined in the publication and to work with our colleagues to safeguard patients' experience in the future.
“Excellence in the practice of surgery, together with patient safety and well-being, are at the very core of our College's activities and we shall be studying carefully those aspects of the Report to identify how we can support clinicians and the wider NHS going forward.” |
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 In September, the RCSEd held a joint diploma ceremony with the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. Hosted at the Hong Academy of Medicine, the ceremony included a number of special awards, including the College Medal for Professor Lau Wan Yee Joseph, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellowship for Professor Wu Meng Chao, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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19 February 2013 |
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The RCSEd is set to hold its President’s Meeting, which will take place in Edinburgh on Friday 8 March and will focus on surgical outcomes. In an interview with Surgeons’ News, keynote speaker for the event Dr John Birkmeyer has discussed the many challenges of making the best use of outcomes.
Speaking about the trend towards centralisation of complex care at specialist centres, Dr Birkmeyer said: “There’s no doubt that, for certain types of complex surgical care, particularly cancer care, centralising care to high-volume regional centres is associated with better outcomes.
“However, centralising is a blunt tool to the extent that the volume handled by the hospital or the surgeon simply works as a proxy for the true proficiency of the surgeon. Some of the data that I’ll be sharing at the March meeting will make it clear that the more direct measures of a surgeon’s skill have a much bigger effect on outcomes than the number of cases that they handle.” |
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07 December 2012 |
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In October, the College was accepted as an Approved Learning Provider in the MoD Enhanced Learning Credit (ELC) Scheme for the Remote and Offshore Medicine postgraduate programme. The move means that service men and women will be able to apply for funding towards the cost of the programme at either Certificate or Diploma level.
Applications close for the March 2013 intake on 24 February
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07 December 2012 |
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 Nominations have opened for the Hunter-Doig Medal, the RCSEd’s biannual prize for female Fellows and Members.
The first Hunter Doig Medal was awarded by the College in 2007, to recognise excellence within the College’s female membership, and is named after two of the College’s most prolific female surgeons.
Caroline May Doig, a paediatric surgeon, was the first woman to be elected to the RCSEd Council in 1984. She served three terms of office and was also the first female Chair of a major committee- GMC (Overseas Committee) in 1991. Alice Headwards-Hunter was the first woman to sit and pass the examinations of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1920.
This highly prestigious medal is awarded every second year to a female Fellow or Member of the College who demonstrates clinical excellence, a commitment to education and training and involvement in clinically relevant research or audit.
Nominations for the medal are now open, closing on 5 January 2013.
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