During Wellbeing Week, the RCSEd Trainees’ Committee encourages surgical and dental teams to take a few moments to focus on themselves and their teams. Maintaining wellbeing is vital to enable the provision of optimal patient care. Wellbeing Week serves as a reminder to check in with everyone, offering support and celebrating ourselves.
Wellbeing Week 2024 will be held from 11-15 March.
Find out more about RCSEd Wellbeing Week by re-watching our preview webinar.
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Financial Wellbeing | Out of Programme (OOPs) – doing something different | Work-life Balance: East meeting the West |
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Listen to our wellbeing Podcast
Vice president Clare McNaught discusses the recent and ongoing Let’s Remove Sexual Misconduct campaign. Our Patient Safety Series features interviews with leading figures in patient safety work across RCSEd and the rest of the UK.
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ASiT 2024 - RCSEd wellbeing breakout rooms
Session 1: RCSEd Dealing with Stress and Burnout | Saturday 9 March at 11:30 - 13:00 / Session 2: RCSEd Sexual Harassment in Surgery | Saturday 9 March at 13:45 - 14:45
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Patient Safety Resources
The Patient Safety Group work hard to ensure that all members of the surgical and dental team have appropriate access to resources that will help inform their practice, and allow them to hold their standards up to the high expectations concerning patient care. You can find a wealth of such resources on our Patient Safety Resources.
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Anti-Bullying and Undermining Campaign
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has launched a new anti-bullying and undermining campaign called #LetsRemoveIt, aimed across the whole health service. The College is committed to eradicating bullying and undermining from the surgical and dental professions.
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Sexual Misconduct in Surgery - Let's Remove It
This UK-wide campaign, launched by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, is designed to raise awareness of Sexual Harassment and encourage zero tolerance of sexual misconduct in healthcare. We ask clinicians to 'Call it Out' if they witness it.
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Parental Leave Resources for Trainees'
Explore our Parental Leave Resources for Trainees, designed for those thinking about or have already started planning for a family. The RCSEd Trainees' Committee has created a guide to help you navigate essential paperwork and forms. This resource covers maternity leave, shared parental leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, and returning to work.
Learn moreJoe Wicks helps people get fit for surgery
The CPOC team, the British Geriatrics Society, and Guy's & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have collaborated with The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, to produce a range of helpful resources aimed at helping people get fit for surgery.
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External Wellbeing Resources
Mind is a mental health charity that offers information and advice to people with mental health problems and lobbies government and local authorities on their behalf.
Visit the website here.
NHS Resources on Mindfulness.
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Sources of support for wellbeing from BMA.
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Creating a 10-Minute Pause Space.
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Medics Money offers free guides for doctors and medical professionals to claim a tax rebate on costs of training such as GMC fees, BMA fees, Royal college fees and examination expenses.
Visit the website here.