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RCSEd Safety in Surgery Series

The RCSEd Patient Safety Group (PSG) would like to share with you a new series of patient safety resources that will be of value to you, your networks and colleagues. These resources are the result of a collaboration with Patient Safety Learning.

Dental Skills Competition UK 2024/25 Winners

The RCSEd UK & Ireland Dental Clinical Skills Competition Grand Final 2024/2025 – Winners Announced!

The RCSEd UK & Ireland Dental Clinical Skills Competition Grand Final took place on Saturday 29th March, and what a close call! For the first time ever we had a tie, with second and third places battled it out in a round of questions to confirm the top three.

Surgical Skills Competition UK 2024/25

2024/25 RCSEd and Medtronic Surgical Skills Competition Final

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, in partnership with Medtronic, proudly hosted the highly anticipated 2024/2025 Student Surgical Skills Competition Grand Final on Saturday 15 March, at the RCSEd campus. This prestigious competition saw over 1,300 students from medical schools across the UK compete for a coveted spot in the final.

Surgical

The RCSEd UK & Ireland Dental Clinical Skills Competition Grand Final

The RCSEd UK & Ireland Dental Clinical Skills Competition Grand Final is back and taking place on Saturday 29 March 2025 at the College campus. This year, The Straumann Group will kindly be supporting the competition, ensuring that the 16 final year dental students experience some of the best in dental technology and equipment.

Dental

Dental Dean Update - The Truth About Tooth Tourism

Dentistry has moved on considerably and with international travel being relatively straightforward, patients are prepared to travel and self-refer to dental clinics providing both straightforward and technically complex dental treatment at relatively cost-effective costs.

Dental

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10 September 2024 Patient Safety

Improving Diagnosis for Safety in Dentistry

Claire Morgan, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Dental Council Member and Deputy Chair of the College’s Patient Safety Group, highlights issues related to diagnostic safety in dentistry.
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10 September 2024 Patient Safety

Using Audit to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer

Alex Laird, Consultant Urologist and Chair of the College’s SSB in Urology, discusses how audit can be used to improve diagnostic outcomes for patients with upper tract urothelial cancers.
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9 September 2024 Patient Safety

The Importance of Teamwork for Surgical Diagnostic Safety in Outpatients

Andrew Martindale, Consultant Urologist, College Regional Surgical Advisor and Urology SSB Member, discusses the importance of teamwork for surgical diagnostic safety in the outpatient setting.
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9 September 2024 Patient Safety

Diagnostic Safety in Surgery

Anna Paisley, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, College Council Member and Chair of the College’s Patient Safety Group, discusses the critical importance of diagnostic safety in surgical care, highlighting the incidence, challenges, main causes and potential solutions, providing information on useful tools to help reduce diagnostic error.
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9 September 2024 Patient Safety

WHO World Patient Safety Day 2024: Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety

In this blog I will provide a brief background to the WHO WPSD, discuss the theme for this year of Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety, highlight what the RCSEd is doing to mark this important day and run through some of the College’s current patient safety initiatives.
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4 September 2024 Patient Safety

Challenges in the Diagnosis of Twin Silent Killers: Aortic Aneurysm and Acute Aortic Dissection

Ruwan Weerakkody, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, and Andrew Tambyraja, Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Chair of the College’s SSB in Vascular Surgery, discuss challenges faced in the diagnosis of the twin silent killers – abdominal aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection.
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4 September 2024 Patient Safety

Improving Diagnostic Safety in Orthopaedics

Neil Ashwood, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, discusses ways to improve diagnostic safety in modern orthopaedic care.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

Diagnostic Safety in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Nashreen Oozeer, Consultant Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon, Deputy Chair of the College’s SSB in Otolaryngology and lead for ENTUK patient information project, discusses how to enhance diagnostic safety in Head and Neck Surgery.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

World Patient Safety Day 2024 — A View from the Bridge

Chris McEwan, Patient Safety Group Lay Representative, explores what World Patient Safety Day means to a broad sample of the population.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

Can My Stool be Tested for Bowel Cancer?

Prateek Arora, Senior Clinical Fellow in Colorectal Surgery, and Chelliah Selvasekar, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Chair of the College’s General Surgery SSB, highlight the importance of stool testing as part of the national Bowel Screening Programme to enhance the diagnostic precision of bowel cancer.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

NCEPOD: Prioritising Diagnostic Safety for Better Health Outcomes

Martin Sinclair, Consultant General Surgeon and NCEPOD (National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death) Surgical Clinical Coordinator, shares the ways in which NCEPOD focuses on diagnostic safety to help improve health outcomes.
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3 September 2024 General

South Asian Heritage Month - Inclusivity and Multiculturalism Is the Cornerstone of the NHS as Well as RCSEd

South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) is an annual month-long celebration, recognising the numerous contributions and achievements of personnel from South Asian descent in the United Kingdom. First established in 2020, SAHM runs from 18 July to 17 August each year and has a unique theme, this year’s theme being “Free to be me”.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

Protecting our Precious Gift of Life

Sumita Barua, Senior Heart Transplant Clinical Fellow, and Majid Mukadam, Associate Specialist in Transplant Surgery and Chair of the College’s SASLED Committee, discuss the importance of patient education in protecting the precious gift of life after receiving a heart transplant.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

Virtual Diagnostics

Arfa Jiwa and Malcom Cameron, University of Edinburgh Medical Students, discuss the diagnostic impact of virtual consultations and diagnostics in modern healthcare.
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3 September 2024 Patient Safety

The Potential of AI to Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors

Arfa Jiwa and Malcom Cameron, University of Edinburgh Medical Students, illustrate how Artificial Intelligence can be harnessed to help reduce diagnostic errors.
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