Press Releases

Edinburgh Hospitality Funds Next Generation of Rwandan Surgeons

Surgeons Quarter, an organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgical standards worldwide has partnered with the Rwandan Surgical Society (RSS) and Harvard University to put an end to the country’s surgical crisis.

Published: 21 May 2019

Surgeons Quarter, an organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgical standards worldwide has partnered with the Rwandan Surgical Society (RSS) and Harvard University to put an end to the country’s surgical crisis. In Rwanda, there is an urgent need for more trained surgeons with just 150 specialist surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists an…

RCSEd supports national campaign to raise awareness of fatigue among healthcare staff

RCSEd announce official endorsement of the Association of Anaesthetists national Fight Fatigue campaign

Published: 16 April 2019

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has announced official endorsement of the national Fight Fatigue campaign, a joint initiative of the Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the impact of fatigue and shift work on our NHS w…

UK health organisations launch an anti-bullying and undermining resource

RCSEd join forces to address bullying and undermining in the workplace

Published: 4 April 2019

A new resource that brings together the range of work being conducted across the medical professions to eradicate workplace bullying is being launched by a coalition of leading health organisations today. Over a quarter of NHS staff in England experienced bullying by a colleague in the last year, and research estimates that it costs the health ser…

RCSEd Says Lack of Care for Young Medics Symptomatic of Wider Problem

Published: 30 March 2019

Responding to the publication of a series of accounts that detail the lack of care and regard the NHS has for young medics, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) President Professor Michael Griffin OBE, said: “We are grateful for Doctor Poole’s work to highlight how the NHS takes trainees for granted. The case studies she presents are n…

Plymouth Student Awarded With The Sharpest Skills In The UK

Tense competition final tests Surgeons of the future to cut out bad habits and sharpen up their skills Tense competition final tests Surgeons of the future to cut out bad habits and sharpen up their skills

Published: 18 March 2019

Run by Britain’s oldest surgical Royal College, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh with sponsors Medtronic, the National Surgical Skills Competition, now in its fourth year, was won by University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School student James Russell, after a gruelling series of tests designed to push the finalist's skills to the extrem…