Junior doctors will be encouraged to opt out of Working Time Directive: Department of Health
Junior doctors to be encouraged to opt out of 48 hour week and to complete training projects outside of their normal hours in order to ensure they gain enough experience (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - July 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Norman Williams royal college of surgeons department of health European working time directive Jeremy Hunt NHS junior doctors Source Type: news
18-week target should be more flexible
Royal College of Surgeons says clinical need should be taken into account in waiting timeRelated items from OnMedicaSharp rise in NHS operations done privatelyAgeism in NHS bars the way to life-saving surgery Two thirds of GPs predict longer waiting timesTrusts slammed on waiting times and cleanlinessQuestions raised over reliability of waiting time figures (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - July 11, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Surgeons 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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - July 10, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS 18-week waiting time should be reviewed to ensure most seriously ill are prioritised, says top surgeon
The new president of the Royal College of Surgeons, Clare Marx said the blanket benchmark may be inappropriate and more flexibility is required to make sure the most serious cases are treated first. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Call to review surgery waiting times
The new president of the Royal College of Surgeons says the 18-week waiting target for routine operations in England should be reviewed. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stephen Hawking: I was close to death after bout of pneumonia in 1980s
Physicist considered 'so far gone' doctors offered to turn off his life support machine, professor tells Royal College of Surgeons Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Press Association Tags: Stephen Hawking Motor neurone disease Science Health Society Source Type: news
Access all ages 2: variations in access to surgical treatment among older people
This report, by the Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK, warns that age discrimination in the NHS may still be preventing older people from having access to life-saving surgery. An analysis of surgery rates across England’s 211 CCGs, for six common procedures which are known to be effective in older people, shows there was widespread variation in the rates of surgery for people aged over 65 and 75, depending on where they live.
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Royal College of Surgeons - news (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - July 3, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: news
NHS 'defies the law' to deny pensioners vital operations, warns Royal College of Surgeons
Elderly people are being denied life-saving operations because of age discrimination within the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons and charity Age UK warns (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - July 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Professor Norman Williams patients elderly Age UK treatment royal college of surgeons ageism Health Secretary age discrimination life-saving operations hospitals Jeremy Hunt NHS medical treatment Source Type: news
Trainee surgeons more likely to be bullied: survey
Trainee surgeons are three times more likely to be victims of bullying than anyone else in the NHS, a survey has found (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - May 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: NHS bullying surgeons bullied royal college of surgeons of edinburgh Source Type: news
High proportion of NHS staff feel swift and effective action is not taken to deal with inappropriate behaviours, new survey finds
21 May 2014
Two fifths (43 per cent) of NHS staff feel that swift and effective action is not taken to deal with inappropriate behaviours and performance in their organisation, a survey published today by The King’s Fund has found.The survey of more than 2,000 NHS clinicians and managers also found that a noticeable proportion of executive board members (16 per cent) did not think that swift and effective action is being taken, with only 58 per cent thinking that it is. Dealing with inappropriate behaviour effectively is an important process to ensure the right cultures are fostered ...
Source: The King's Fund - Press - May 20, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Donated human eye cells could help restore vision
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This study has found that rod cells developed from hMSCs in the laboratory could restore rod cell function in rats that had been genetically engineered so that their rod cells died.
This offers the potential for treatment that could restore the vision of people with visual impairment of the broad perception of light and dark, the size and shape of objects, and movement. Even though restoring some rod cell function would not provide detailed vision, it could help with carrying out normal activities of daily life, such as moving around and getting food and drink.
As the researchers say, using rod cells derived f...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 3, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics/stem cells Medical practice Source Type: news
Royal 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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - January 6, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
HSJ Live: 06.01.14 Royal 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, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - January 6, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Online in 3D: the 'grotesque beauty' of medieval Britons' diseased bones
Digitised Diseases site makes 1,600 specimens available for doctors and members of the public to study for freeThe bones of a young woman who died of syphilis more than 500 years ago, the reassembled jaw of a man whose corpse was sold to surgeons at the London hospital in the 19th century and the contorted bone of an 18th-century man who lived for many years after he was shot through the leg, are among the remains of hundreds of individuals which can now be studied in forensic detail on a new website.The Digitised Diseases website, to be launched on Monday at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, brings together 1,600 s...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 8, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Maev Kennedy Tags: theguardian.com Infectious diseases News Medical research Society UK news Bradford Poverty Science Source Type: news
RCS 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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 26, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
