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Helping to Improve Patient Safety

The Patient Safety Group of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh are delighted to lend our enthusiastic support to the third World Patient Safety Day. This event, established by the World Health Organization in...
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Safe Childbirth: Why Do Women Die in Childbirth, and What You Can Do About It?

The most common individual causes for maternal mortality worldwide are: haemorrhage (27.1%), hypertensive disorders (14.0%), sepsis (10.7%) and unsafe abortion (7.9%) (1). Of course, the distribution of maternal death...
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The Antenatal Clinic - Facilitating Safe Paediatric Surgical Care

A look at Mrs Claire Clark, RCSEd Fellow and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, and the role of the antenatal clinic in facilitating safe paediatric surgical care.  Antenatal screening, and the planning of the immediate...
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Mhairi Collie and the Uganda Childbirth Injury Fund

This World Patient Safety Day we look at the works of Ms Mhairi Collie OBE, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital, and chair of the Uganda Childbirth Injury Fund.  The theme of the 202...
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Safe Maternal and Newborn Care in Relation to Oral Health

This year the WHO are promoting safe maternal and newborn care, which the Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh fully support. Oral health should always be a priority, however below are some con...
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International Connections for Urology

The RCSEd has appointed Faris AbuShamma to the Surgical Specialty Board (SSB) in urology – a first for an overseas Member. It is hoped that the appointment will create collaborations between the College and Middle Eas...
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A First for the Faculty: Introduction to Humanitarian Healthcare Course

In March 2021, RCSEd’s Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare (FRRHH) in partnership with UK-Med officially launched the Introduction to Humanitarian Healthcare Online Course. The course, which is valued...
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CARE (Colleague Advertency Respect and Enquiry)

From the book Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu (T’zu), translated caring as his “first treasure,” and wrote:  'from caring comes courage.' The word courage is derived from the Latin word “cor”. The Latin - "colere " which mea...
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Protecting the Future of the UK’s Oral Health

Professor Philip Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, reflects on the Faculty’s involvement in a recent Government consultation on foods high in sugar and salt a...
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Edinburgh Surgery Online - Patient Safety Programme

Edinburgh Surgery Online (ESO), a partnership between the University of Edinburgh and The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, is a valuable education programme, running various MSc courses. These are built with th...
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Getting back to normal. An update by the RCSEd Dental Dean

The first four face-to-face Diploma ceremonies since lockdown have finally happened, and because of the need to maintain social distancing we tried out a new way of delivery. This was a great success as friends and fa...
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The post-pandemic future of dentistry

Professor Philip Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, reflects on new research which examines the financial and human cost of gum disease, and what it might mean...
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