Press Statements
Latest Press Statements issued by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd):
RCSEd Obtains Tax Relief for Specialty Fellowship Examination (FRCS)
Following negotiations between the College's Trainees’ Committee and HMRC, the College has been successful in obtaining agreement for trainees to claim tax relief on the examination fee for the Specialty Fellowship Examinations (FRCS)
- Published: 4 January 2018 | Tags:
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is pleased to announce that, following negotiations between the College's Trainees’ Committee and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the College has been successful in obtaining agreement for trainees in the ten surgical specialties to claim tax relief on the examination fee for the Specialty Fellows…
RCSEd Joins Health Leaders to Warn Against Removal of Working Time Regulations
The British Medical Association, alongside 11 royal colleges and trade unions, has today written to the Prime Minister urging caution against removing EWTR from law following Brexit.
Following reports that there is support within government for the removal of the Working Time Regulations (WTR), the British Medical Association, alongside 11 royal colleges and trade unions, has today written to the Prime Minister urging caution against removing them from law following Brexit. In a letter to Theresa May, the BMA’s chair of counci…
Regulations of Medical Associate Professions in the UK
RCSEd concerned and disappointed at recommendations made in a recent government consultation document on the regulation of medical associate professions in the UK.
- Published: 13 October 2017 | Tags:
- Medical Associate Professions
- Perioperative Care
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) would like to raise concerns surrounding the recommendations in a recent government consultation document on the Regulation of Medical Associate Professions in the UK. The College is in agreement with the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine that surgical care …
House of Lords Select Committee report on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS
House of Lords Select Committee report on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS
- Published: 5 April 2017 | Tags:
Responding to the recent publication of the House of Lords Select Committee report on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS, Professor Michael Lavelle-Jones, President of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, said: “This report is an important contribution to the discussion necessary to enable us to create a sustainable NHS. Whilst the Five…
Public Health England Requests 20% Sugar Cut for Children's Foods
Professor Bill Saunders, Dean of the Dental Faculty at RCSEd, comments on dental health
- Published: 3 April 2017 | Tags:
Responding to Public Health England’s recent announcement that they will be ‘urging’ the food industry to cut 20% of sugar from the main snacks and foods that children eat, Professor Bill Saunders, Dean of the Dental Faculty of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh said: “The UK has both an obesity crisis and an appalling record in children’s…
Press Statement Tags
- Brexit (1)
- CEO (1)
- chennai (1)
- Chennai (1)
- conference (1)
- Conference (1)
- COVID-19 (5)
- Dental (2)
- Dental Dean (1)
- Dental Students (1)
- Dentistry (1)
- Doctors (1)
- elective care (1)
- EWTR (1)
- faculty of dental surgery (2)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery (2)
- Faculty of Remote Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare (1)
- FDS (1)
- fellowship (1)
- Fellowship (1)
- government (1)
- healthcare (2)
- Healthcare (2)
- Heritage (1)
- international (1)
- Medical Associate Professions (1)
- NHS (7)
- NHS England (3)
- NHS Scotland (3)
- Orthopaedic (1)
- Perioperative Care (1)
- rcsed (3)
- RCSEd Council (1)
- Research (1)
- Research Fellowship (1)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1)
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1)
- Staff Morale (1)
- Surgeons Hall Museums (1)
- surgical (2)
- Surgical (2)
- surgical training (1)
- Surgical Training (1)
- survey (1)
- Testing (1)
- Trainees (1)
- Training (1)
- Vaccine (1)
- wellbeing (1)
